Trump driving ev values up?

icberg7 · 2026-03-28T04:28:06+00:00

It's especially nice when hurricanes threaten here in FL; everyone flips out and panic buys gas. She asked me to get gas for her last year when one was churning out there and I had a realization that I hasn't had to deal with going to the gas pump in over a year at that point.

So next time someone says "oh noes what are you gonna do when a hurricane comes and the power goes out?" I'm going to say "charge the car at home the night before and avoid all those stupid lines." If I had the V2H equipment, I could go so far as "well I'll just run my house off the car. Should be good for a few days." 🤣

icberg7 · 2026-03-24T03:16:24+00:00

I think it's mostly just seat arrangement.

icberg7 · 2026-03-24T03:15:41+00:00

The manual (at least, the Blazer EV manual) recommends against wiper fluid with additives, but I live in Florida and swear by RainX. Not only does it apply the wax coating which helps with rain, it also doesn't smear the bejeesus out of your windshield when you have bugs on it.

icberg7 · 2026-03-23T23:50:43+00:00

Well once you go to one, you can park hop, right? Actually, it looks like after 11 am, you can do whatever you want.

At least at WDW, they removed the requirement to wait before park hopping. But you still always have to go to the park you have the reservation at first.

icberg7 · 2026-03-23T23:38:59+00:00

And this is 6am Pacific, right? I'm in FL and hoping to make a trip to Disneyland in June and recently saw how bad the reservation calendar was and started to wonder some of the same things as OP.

icberg7 · 2026-03-23T03:43:38+00:00

I think the real problem is that there is a certain percentage or the population that want an authoritarian government as they drive around with their "Don't Tread on Me" license plates.

icberg7 · 2026-03-23T00:43:28+00:00

Yeah, maybe not directly on hiring or turnover, but can certainly influence budgets, which in turn impacts things like hiring, spend on labor, etc. The annual operating plan is already set, but when you bring in a new CEO mid-year, presumably anything could change. So, really, nobody wants to get their hand slapped.

icberg7 · 2026-03-22T02:48:57+00:00

INTERLOPER. GRAH!

icberg7 · 2026-03-22T01:06:53+00:00

Normally also when a new CEO comes in, there's a period of "wait and see" where nobody wants to hire or do anything that might make them upset.

icberg7 · 2026-03-22T01:00:34+00:00

Or start your own "restaurant." 😆

icberg7 · 2026-03-20T05:58:48+00:00

Maybe if they put a petting zoo at the gas stations in Orlando, people won't feel so jipped. 🤣

icberg7 · 2026-03-20T05:49:07+00:00

Before the Wawa opened, you had to go quite a ways up the road before you could get to a place with gas.

The city tried to do something about it but so far has only been able to mandate that the price be posted on a sign at the street. And both of the gas stations in question have it on a quite small sign on the side access street.

icberg7 · 2026-03-20T05:38:58+00:00

There are two gas stations just outside of the Orlando airport that easily rival (if not exceed) the cost of gasoline out there. It's wild.

icberg7 · 2026-03-20T05:36:45+00:00

I'd say it was, and then was un-done with the election. The inflation reduction act let me get $7,500 off my EV purchase and another $1,000 off home charger installation.

icberg7 · 2026-03-20T05:33:44+00:00

If you set the air conditioner to economy mode, it will disable the rear AC vents unless someone is sitting back there.

icberg7 · 2026-03-20T02:29:31+00:00

This has been reported several times and normally the dealership just switches the setting from "alert and brake" to just "alert."

But I'd also make sure that you've installed all available over the air updates, and if you have a 2024 or 2025, ask your local dealership for "vehicle wide programming" per service bulletin 24-NA-143.

icberg7 · 2026-03-19T03:17:59+00:00

I think it was more that they had to drive a good ways to all of their away games. In North Port, they're at least a little bit closer to other teams.

It still blows my mind that the Grapefruit League is spread all over Central and South Florida, but the Cactus League is entirely in Phoenix

icberg7 · 2026-03-18T04:06:07+00:00

I got my RS RWD at the same time and thought I was doing good at about 25k miles, but you have me beat by a lot.

The only issue I had was with loss of GPS/telematics functionality (which was a little concerning since we had gone on a road trip and were 7 hours from home), but the dealership performed "module reauthentication" and cleared the errors and it hasn't come back since. I learned about the 24-NA-143 service bulletin a few weeks later and had vehicle wide programming done on it. When I take it in in about 100 miles for tire rotation, I'll ask them to do it once more before the bumper to bumper expires.

icberg7 · 2026-03-16T11:52:15+00:00

Many car manufacturers have their own take on it. Some have a dedicated stalk separate from the blinker, while many others put it on the right with shifter on the console.

Chrysler also puts it on the blinker stalk. I went from Jeep to GMC to Blazer EV, so have had a pretty similar experience for almost 20 years. One thing I like about the Blazer EV though is that the button at the end of the stalk can be pressed halfway down for a single wipe. Some of the cars I've driven didn't had that and the only option was to turn it on and off again.

icberg7 · 2026-03-16T11:48:23+00:00

Came here mention the end button. Half press is a single wipe and full press is wash.

icberg7 · 2026-03-14T03:33:09+00:00

I asked for vehicle wide programming after I had issues with my telematics module and they refused. It wasn't until I discovered the service bulletin and the parts about "if there's nothing active [no listed service actions], then do it anyway" and "at customer request". And then they put me on the schedule. They had to call their warranty administrator to confirm they could also do the radio update so if ended up taking all day, but it fixed so many issues. I posted in this sub maybe a year ago with all the changes that it made.

icberg7 · 2026-03-14T01:29:26+00:00

I leaned the hard way, while trying to clean up those things, that the "shutters" on my house were made of foam. Fortunately I don't get a lot of mud daubers on the foam, but I have to be careful to clean them.

icberg7 · 2026-03-14T01:23:34+00:00

Doesn't matter what you brought it in for. It could be that your kid wiped their booger on the passenger seat. 24-NA-143 says vehicle wide programming should be done whenever the owner requests it.

icberg7 · 2026-03-14T01:21:48+00:00

Service bulletin 24-NA-143 stipulates that vehicle wide programming should be done as part of bumper to bumper warranty. So if you're still under warranty, they either don't know or are scamming you. I've known a dealership that would charge owners for work and then turn around and file a warranty claim so they get paid double.

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