Vehicles. Lease vs Buying

[Clint]

Same as mine but one year newer. You're gonna love it. The only down side is the gas mileage. I get 17 - 18 mpg around town and 20 - 22 highway. Now we need pictures.

[CrappiePappy]

Any tips?

This is the only "tip" I can offer : watch this > YouTube

[skunked again]

It's the same color as my wife's new Versa. The bad news is, with the way I have our garage laid out, it's a tight fit. So I'm parking in the detached. Which makes one of our kids happy happy, theirs is in the garage.

[Clint]

Even the same color! I added floor matts and had the windshield tinted very dark at the top to cut down the glare. I got a 7 pin to 4 pin adapter for my boat trailer which has a 4 pin connector. I will be adding a trailer electronic brake controller for the trailer of a ministry with which my wife works. Even without the brakes it tows a dual axle loaded box trailer very well.

[skunked again]

That's excellent news on the towing! That was a big reason I sold the escape.
Your fuel mileage sounds close to the sticker estimate.
We'll be ordering front weather tech floor mats. We've had them in several vehicles now, I'm sold on them.
When I put backup lights on our boat and utility trailer, I wired a 6 round on them. I couldn't find enough 7 round, was too impatient to wait. Already bought two 7 round trailer plugs, need to get them swapped out.
Have you had any issues/ or heard of people stealing the bed extenders? I could see that thing growing legs real quick. Might try to come up with a cable and lock?

[Clint]

My "bed extender" hangs on the wall in the garage. I don't ever see myself using it. I will disagree with your choice of floor mats. I got Weather Tech matts for my bride's Mazda CX-5 and the snaps have broken so many times I gave up replacing them.

[skunked again]

Interesting to hear that about the floor mats.

[EWS]

FWIW my Husky liners’ "screw" ripped out of the carpet after a couple of weeks, leaving a matching hole. I just need to pull the carpet back and put a fender washer in behind it.


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[Clint]

Interesting to hear that about the floor mats.

The Mazda has two buttons on each side to mate with snaps in the mats. The Weathertech snaps are made of two pieces of plastic which break at the slightest pressure. The first time they broke I got a hold of the dealer from whom I bought them and they sent new mats and paid to have the old one returned. The second time they broke I called again asking just for a set of snaps (4) and had intended to super-glue or epoxy them together on installation. The company said they did not stock the snaps and Weathertech wouldn't send just the snaps so I said the heck with it. I have a set of 3D mats in the Frontier and while they are a bit thinner than the Weathertech and have a felt type feel to them they have held up very well. They are very easy to take out and just shake what has collected and look like new coming up on one year old.

[skunked again]

Finally got the races replaced in the boat trailer, what a job. Next is to repack the hubs on our utility trailer, and flip the axle, from underslung to overslung. I like it under, the issue is, the tongue jack. If you have much weight on it, their isn't enough clearance.
We went ahead and ordered weather tech's, for the 1st and 2nd row. They look slick! I don't foresee any issues with them. The keeper tabs are built into the carpet. Time will tell.
I pulled the boat to a lake about 45 minutes away, WOW! I passed a semi, two lane highway, more than enough power. Stopping it wasn't an issue either.