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Lease Meter
08/03/09 13:33 Filed in: Applications
The Lease Helper
The solution to this problem is to keep track of the miles we use and know what our safe limits are. Enter Lease Meter, an application designed to help you avoid excess charges or help you plan in advance if those charges are going to be unavoidable.
With Lease Meter you will need to specify just a few your lease details: Date when your lease was started, Length of your lease and Miles you are allowed to use annually. Every time you would like to check the number of miles you are using and what are the predictions for that use you need to Update the Reading of your odometer, this could be done touching on the "Update Reading" option in the main screen.
Adjusted Limits
Every time you execute the application two limits will be adjusted: Daily and Monthly. These values represent the driving limits you should obey for not to go overboard. If you drive less miles daily you will see these values increase, if you drive too much they will shrink.
End Of Lease
The application will predict the number of miles you will save or go over at the end of your lease based on the odometer reading that you have updated. Not only your excess miles will be shown, if you drove less miles that allowed you will have spare miles at the end, in this case the number of miles will appear in parenthesis.
How to React to Overuse
In the main screen you will be always presented with the Safe Reading, this reading is nothing more that the maximum value you should have in your odometer for not to go over the limit in your lease. But if you go over this limit, what to do ?
First thing: not to panic. Modifying your driving pattern could easily get you on track again. Maybe a long trip took you some miles that were not planned, maybe next month you will use less miles and everything will adjust.
You could also take drastic measures like using your partner's car, take a bus or train or simply just drive less miles in the coming months. In case any of these are not an option, you will have an idea of how much you will be charged for your over use.
