u/longfellow816

Curious if anyone has made the switch from an M BMW to a Cadillac V/Blackwing and your experience or even just the general consensus on how much better (if any) the Cadillacs are on maintenance and repairs vs the BMW?

I currently have a 2018 M4 with 42k miles and just got hit with a $5k repair bill today between an oil change, brake fluid flush, and repairs for TWO separate oil leaks (not to mention there is a $1k AC issue that I passed on repairing). I absolutely love my M4 but I’m getting tired of this. I have also had probably $3k of repairs prior to this over the 3.5 yrs I have owned the car.

I know that’s what you sign up for with the German cars, but I really don’t care for anything Japanese or American - except the Cadillac CT4/5V blackwings that have recently caught my attention.

How much less of a headache would one of those be? Frequency of maintenance/repairs aside - when something does go wrong, do the V’s still command a high-end / specialized shop (similar to how the Germans require a euro shop) or can really any general reputable mechanic work on them since they are American at the end of the day?

All I did was shorten the existing job title I have (similar to shortening “Vice President” to “VP”) and LinkedIn annoyingly notified my network of this. I now have people reaching out congratulating me on my promotion.

I have since turned the “notify network” setting to “off” but I am still getting profile views and outreach so I think it’s still on my followers feeds.This is so annoying and embarrassing. I have been in this role for a year I don’t want people to think I just got it.

Any fix?

I’ve had 3 surgeries to remove cholesteatoma now which have led to removal of all my ossicles in the operated ear and my hearing in that ear is maybe 20% of what it used to be if I had to guess. There was a period between surgeries where I did not have either my ossicles or any prosthetics, and while I now have prosthetics, my hearing didn’t improve at all from when I didn’t have any.

Just curious if anyone noticed improvement from prosthetics in general or if they have tried multiple versions and one worked better than the other as I am now losing hope that my hearing can ever be improved by prosthetics. Maybe I am vain but I am young and single and am not ready for hearing aids so was really hoping there would be another solution.

Anyone else experience this? I had a CWD about a year ago and then a follow up surgery about 6 months ago to put in some prosthetic hearing bones.

I was at a networking event yesterday that was located at a very crowded/loud bar and my operated ear was going crazy - it sounded like I had a radio in my ear that was on static that kept fading in and out. The internal noise of this static sound was so loud I could barely hear the actual noise around me over it. Super uncomfortable feeling.

I feel like the cases I have seen where people tried each, they had more success on oral. However I have been on oral over year and haven’t seen much improvement so I will be adding topical (fwiw I am on 5mg oral and will start 5mg topical - and my dermatologist is aware of this).

Looking for hope that topical will make a difference.

Been on oral minox for a year and haven’t seen much results. Saw my dermatologist today and he said I can try adding topical minox to help boost beard growth.

I picked up some Kroger brand 5% foam but I’m seeing that this stuff takes 4 hrs to absorb?? My current skincare is as follows so trying to decide if I can simply throw it in as the first step in each my morning/night routine or if applying the rest directly after will actually hinder results?

Morning after shower:

1. Moisturizer

2. Sunscreen

Night after washing face:

1. Tretinoin

2. Moisturizer