Forgot to mention- I was on Ting for something like 3 years, and switched to Fi about 6-8 months ago. My wife is still happily using Ting.

Former Ting customer here- Overall, they’re absolutely fantastic, as long as you use a minimal amount of data. Customer support is fantastic, and they’ve always been great.

That’s the biggest complaint I had about the couple of e39 BMWs I had- the important stuff all worked great, but I swear that every single overcomplicated ‘luxury’ feature was failing, and I got sick of dealing with it. I like older cars, but I want *everything* to work correctly, and that’s just not feasible with all…

I’ve always wanted a car with a dogleg pattern... Aside from the initial adjustment period, it’s just always seemed like a more logical layout.

Pretty sure this guy didn’t care about anything by the time he was stancing a Yaris... That’s at least 4 or 5 sheets to the wind territory right there.

So, a couple questions going into the subject:

I think you misread something... they’re looking for *smaller* phones, i.e. ones that actually still fit in a normal-sized pocket.

Yes, that’s an upright bass.

Well, I’m going to be doing that here in the next few months- I’ll let you know how it goes. :P

Agreed on the repaint. It’s just such a process that I’ll probably let that be someone else’s job. But the price tag is painful enough to keep me seriously considering it every time I start thinking about it...

Makes sense to me. Also, don’t buy them if they’ve been living in Pennsylvania. Seriously. The damned thing was eating itself within 2 years of buying it, and I ended up selling it for a pittance before it failed miserably and ended up being unsellable.

Agreed, though I was cursing the engineers the time I had to swap out the hatch and glass struts on the 1999 528iT I had a few years ago. Holy hell, did it *really* have to be that hard?

I made the mistake exactly once with my first Porsche 944 about a decade ago, and had them fix what turned out to be a radiator fitting. $130/hour, in Indianapolis, in 2006. $350 and a week later, they’d replaced the $3 fitting, refilled and bled the cooling system, and in doing all that, screwed up the routing of the…

That’s why it’s a daily driver. :D

Another one that no one seems to expect but happens on quite a lot of cars- the inside door handles break. Usually in a rather amusing fashion, too! Bonus points if it happens when a friend or coworker tries to get out of your car and ends up with the handle coming off in your hand; the expressions are priceless.

A lot of those applied to my e39 as well. Older cars need stuff fixed. *shrug*

Trunk space is absurd for such a small car- This, for example, is my car:

Also a great car- only problem is that they’re either rustbuckets or crazy expensive at this point.

Yes. Or a 944, for that matter. Both are pretty cheap, even in solid shape, and if it’s a daily driver, the Porsche is WAY more useful day-to-day.

Dead-on. The manual seats out of my 1984 944 weigh something like 30lbs each. The 16-way-power-adjustable-behemoths I had in my late-90s BMW? ~90lbs each. That’s a small person worth of extra weight just in a pair of seats.