Not a single one. Between just not showing up, trying to make you sign a damage waiver so they can destroy your car, charging absurd fees, etc nope. Hell, we even had one show up, to tow a customer car, and then immediately drive away because it didn’t have fenders in it (mind you it was registered, insured and running).

My car was broken down, in the middle of nowhere’s at night, and I was by myself. Not a sketchy part of town, but I didn’t want to be where I was by myself. No less than 5 different tow companies either just never showed up, after they said they were on their way, or showed up and tried to either have me sign a damage waiver, or just straight up drive off before even saying anything to me. The car was still drivable, but unsafe to drive more than onto the tow truck.

You could get better for the same or less money.

I’m just saying that for me, personally, I care FAR more about afternoon light, and how early the sun sets, than I do about morning sun. In the winter (February) the sun comes up around 7am here. I still wake up and do my normal routine. I don’t care that the sun doesn’t come up until 3 hours after I woke up. What I DO care about is the sun setting before 5pm. I’m absolutely miserable, and ready to sleep at about 6pm.

So, article says you need sunlight within an hour of waking up. Sunrise has been about 6 at lately. If I slept until 5am I’d feel terrible. I honestly don’t care how long after I wake up the sun comes up, as long as it comes up for the majority of the day. BUT the amount of time in the afternoon that the suns up matters FAR more to me. I very much prefer DST.

Personally, I do/feel MUCH much better in summer months, mostly because the sun is typically at full strength, and bright. I don’t use artificial lights unless absolutely necessary (they are a migraine trigger for me). BUT, I wake up at about 4am, get out for a run (minimum of 30 minutes) and then start my day.

I already had fears of this happening to me. Yep. I don’t know if I should have read this. I just had 5 or 6 of those adorable little assholes come running at me, snarling and snorting and growling at me last week.

I’m sorry this happened to you. Hope you feel better, and so happy you and your dog are mostly ok.

You have to heat it, and probably do a little prying, to get the glue to come apart, but it can be done. I’ve done it. I’m sure there are videos on YouTube explaining exactly how.

Haven’t tried it, but I’d imagine a blue bulb will just make a weird color, that’s it white.

Chances are you’re going to either have to find the housing, that came on the car in your country, or disassemble the housing and remove the orange reflector.

Best start would be to put UV dye in the system (a bottle of its cheap) run the system for a while, and then break out the black light, and check every AC line. Chances are you’ll find a leak.

Iirc is rated pretty high in reliability here too. That doesn’t always translate perfectly to reality. I dismiss the hubris option of a VW without thought. As I said, I’ve seen too many vw with electrical issues, and then add in a complex hybrid system. Lol. No thanks. As I said, others may disagree with me, but this is my experience.

Kia may have a good warranty, sure. They may also have a service center near you. That doesn’t mean they will honor the warranty (manufacturers deny for BS all the time) or like in my experience, they legitimately don’t know how to fix a problem, and you’re left without a car for months on end. As I said, we were like 4-6 months without our car before I got so frustrated I traded it in on the hyundai. The quality of materials they use, in their late model cars, from what I’ve seen, is inferior to the more established brands like Mazda or Toyota. They also feel cheaper to me.

I’m pretty sure I said the Toyota would be fine just boring like the rest of them. Yeah, a Corolla is boring and cheap feeling but should be reliable.

Ford is ford. There’s a reason they sell as many cars as they do worldwide. Would I personally prefer a Japanese (built in Japan) car to a ford? Yes, but would I prefer a ford to a VW? Again, yes.

Imo, you literally can’t do better for the money than a Mazda. If the 2 is too small, then look at then CX3. Same chassis totally different feel. Or, the 3 comes in a sedan too, which is usually cheaper. Late model Mazdas feel, and drive like they should cost at least 15k more than they do, and if you can make it work, worth the price imo.

I’m in San Diego. Can’t really get better weather than here. However, for anything with lots of battery, high heat is bad, so there’s that.

All of that’s why prefaced my statement with I’m an American. No one else had replied yet, so I figured I’d give my $0.02 as someone who works on cars.

Nissan and NASA were involved somehow to make “zero gravity seats”. They are actually comfy. Iirc they were only on the Altima, but they may have moved to other models now too. Before like 2010 they as well have been metal park benches. I agree.

Edit: apparently nasa wasn’t involved. Idk. I remember they were. Anyhow. They apparently used the zero gravity seats in just about everything now. You can see a list here

Nissan worked with NASA or maybe they just bought the tech (I seem to remember some kind of collaboration) for their seats. That’s why everyone loves them.

As for reliability, as someone who works on Nissans, avoid them like the plague. Plus parts for Nissan are RIDICULOUSLY expensive. Valve covers for a 350z are over $400 EACH and that’s not the most outlandishly priced part I’ve looked up recently.

Edit: nasa wasn’t involved the seats were “inspired” by zero gravity. I remember a different story when they came out but whatever.

American here, so I can only help so much, but I can give my personal opinion, and you can take it with a grain of salt.

Personally, I’d remove the VW from the list of the bat. I’ve never had good luck with them being super reliable. I also have seen a lot of friends spend a lot of money on problems with them (usually electrical/control system). Other people absolutely love/swear by them. I do not. Edit: I missed that the vw was a plugin hybrid the first time I read through. Personally. Run. Run far and fast from that car.

The warranty makes the Kia appealing, but having had both a Kia and a Hyundai in the family now, they are cheap and fall a part much faster than a Mazda or Toyota in my experience. In fact, our Kia was sitting in the dealership parking lot for like 4-6 months waiting for Kia to figure out how to fix a problem they made by doing a recall. Every time we asked how much longer, we got a “Kia doesn’t know how to fix the issue yet, so we don’t know” that said husband loves driving his Hyundai.

The Toyota. We don’t have that model here, but I’d imagine it’s like the rest of the Toyota line (at least the bulk of them). Cheap feeling, and boring to drive. Should be reliable, however, the batteries make it potentially very expensive to repair in a few years. How long do you plan to keep this vehicle?

The ford would probably be my pick from your list, but I don’t know much about the 1ltr eco boost. Its bigger cousins are fun to drive for what they are. They seem to be relatively reliable and potent for their size and get ok mileage.

Personally, if I were you, I’d look at Mazda. Both the 2 and 3 hatches might fit your requirements. For a while now they have been making much nicer feeling cars than you should be getting for the money. I’ve owned Mazdas (and some of the ones know to be the least reliable cars ever) and I have nothing but great things to say about the brand (minus one dealership) and driving experience. They seem to have really thought out what they are doing.

They seem to be largely confused by it.

Personally, it’s feels like a shittier version of insta. At least insta you can curate what you see. Threads you can’t. Plus the non tech savvy signed up for it then started asking what it was and what the fediverse is pretty much immediately. If your customers don’t even understand what your product is it’s probably not going to last too long. lol.

Checking in from Murica.

Yeah, I’m kind of in the same boat. I’m so new to lemmy, I’m just trying to figure that out. Im definitely going to miss a few of the women specific subs I was on, and the running ones.