Our Kia Adventure

 

Our 39 month Kia Sportage lease was going expire in May.  We have been reading about how difficult it is to get a car with supply chain problems so we made an appointment for today to gather information.  We left with more than information!  Our appointment was at 11;  we left Gateway Kia at 2 pm with a new Kia Seltos.  

We have a 48 month lease  and will pay just a little more than we have been paying.  We have a beautiful car with many safety features.  It's not a boring white or gray or black.  It's orange but what I would call a burnt orange.  We will be able to find it in parking lots!

We must have signed or initialed a hundred sheets of paper--some with electronic signatures.  There definitely is an element of trust in all of this when it all goes so fast.  But we will not have to deal with this again for a long time.  Kia takes care of the paper work for dealing with the DMV and even called to get our State Farm insurance updated.  When we got home, Jim called the bank to get our former lease payments discontinued and I called SiriusXM to get that little used feature ended (with a small refund!) We remembered to take our garage door opener and transponder out of the old car!  Oh, and also Jim's golf clubs! 

It is sobering to think of how old we will be when this lease ends.  I hope we will still be driving and driving safely.  Maybe it will be our last car.  The last two years have kept us from taking anything for granted.  But meanwhile, our new car has blind spot warnings, map directions, warnings if you swerve out of your lane, braking if something stops suddenly in front of you.   If we lock the fob in the car, we have an app on our iphones to unlock the car.  I hope that we are not too old to learn to use all these features well.