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But then Toyota covers 0-25k for free under ToyotaCare. At 30, do oil, rotate, and change the engine and cabin air filters yourself.
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fledonfoot wrote: Sat Mar 20, 2021 2:29 pm
Desertbreh wrote: Sat Mar 20, 2021 1:42 pm

Boy the PA inspection thing is a racket.
It really is, especially when so much of it is at the technician’s discretion/interpretation.
The key in NC is to get an inspection at a shop that only does inspections. You’re in and out in 10 minutes and they have no reason to try to rape you on more than the $30 inspection fee.

Do you have those in PA?

This crazy service :tubeman: shit on a brand new car is :mindblown:
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Quick GoRf update. My brother ended up getting the H Elantra N so I went over to check it out. Didn't hustle it or anything since it's got just 24 miles on it but from just a quick spin this thing is 5/7. Can't wait to drive it once he's past break in. I'd take this over a GTI every time.



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Fucking hell man. Sorry about your :gorf: :( At least there won't be a fight to get it fixed.
Definitely interested in more impressions about the H.
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How does one miss a giant bright blue egg ?’ :wtf:
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I keep seeing the Elantra N's around, they seem to look pretty good and sound :notbad: i'd suspect its better to drive than a GTI. Good luck with the .:R, glad the people responsible owed up.
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wap wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 9:34 pm :rage:
Fucking hell man. Sorry about your :gorf: :( At least there won't be a fight to get it fixed.
Definitely interested in more impressions about the H.
It's pretty solid. The H at $32k seems like a bargain when GTI's exceed $40k now. The interior seems to be on par with the Mk7/7.5 and I'm assuming better than the Mk8. I'd have no problems taking one of these over a new GTI. Hell, maybe even an R. The N is probably just as fast.
max225 wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 9:58 am How does one miss a giant bright blue egg ?’ :wtf:
I guess if you never look you won't see it. Her explanation was that she didn't think anyone was there since my brother's car was gone. Even though he parks on the driveway and I was parked on the street. :mindblown:

She hit me with some force too because when I released the parking brake the car leveled back out.
MexicanYarisTK wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 10:00 am I keep seeing the Elantra N's around, they seem to look pretty good and sound :notbad: i'd suspect its better to drive than a GTI. Good luck with the .:R, glad the people responsible owed up.
It sounds great. I was shocked. It's got a ton of character.
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This firking sucks, nobody can recover paint like the factory with e-coating/etc. I'm bad for you GBerg bro.
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Tar wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 11:03 am This firking sucks, nobody can recover paint like the factory with e-coating/etc. I'm bad for you GBerg bro.
Just got back from the body shop. They’re going to write for 2 new doors so basically half the car will need to be painted and blended. On the plus side, since it’s new sheet metal they won’t be using any body filler so when the guy comes out for the diminished value claim he should see similar measurements on the paint gauge compared to the stock side.

Soonest they can get me in is April 25 so it’ll be awesome driving a dented up car for nearly 2 months. :pout:
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Gberg2119 wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:52 pm
Tar wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 11:03 am This firking sucks, nobody can recover paint like the factory with e-coating/etc. I'm bad for you GBerg bro.
Just got back from the body shop. They’re going to write for 2 new doors so basically half the car will need to be painted and blended. On the plus side, since it’s new sheet metal they won’t be using any body filler so when the guy comes out for the diminished value claim he should see similar measurements on the paint gauge compared to the stock side.

Soonest they can get me in is April 25 so it’ll be awesome driving a dented up car for nearly 2 months. :pout:
Hopefully they come to you factory primed and the repair shop supplies factory paint at least.
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Gberg2119 wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:52 pm
Tar wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 11:03 am This firking sucks, nobody can recover paint like the factory with e-coating/etc. I'm bad for you GBerg bro.
Just got back from the body shop. They’re going to write for 2 new doors so basically half the car will need to be painted and blended. On the plus side, since it’s new sheet metal they won’t be using any body filler so when the guy comes out for the diminished value claim he should see similar measurements on the paint gauge compared to the stock side.

Soonest they can get me in is April 25 so it’ll be awesome driving a dented up car for nearly 2 months. :pout:
Wow that seems completely excessive for that sort of damage …

Also I had some paint work on the mini because of the deer incident… I’m incredibly anal about it to be honest and I had them redo part of the door because I saw fish eyes. That said … once it was done it is a perfect match and I can’t tell a difference.

Also remember the Nigerian that rear ended my 335i fake sport ? They also did a perfect color match.

Modern paint tech is excellent
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Tar wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 2:09 pm
Gberg2119 wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:52 pm

Just got back from the body shop. They’re going to write for 2 new doors so basically half the car will need to be painted and blended. On the plus side, since it’s new sheet metal they won’t be using any body filler so when the guy comes out for the diminished value claim he should see similar measurements on the paint gauge compared to the stock side.

Soonest they can get me in is April 25 so it’ll be awesome driving a dented up car for nearly 2 months. :pout:
Hopefully they come to you factory primed and the repair shop supplies factory paint at least.
I think they did a pretty nice job on the last one but we’ll see. :iono:
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max225 wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 3:13 pm
Gberg2119 wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:52 pm

Just got back from the body shop. They’re going to write for 2 new doors so basically half the car will need to be painted and blended. On the plus side, since it’s new sheet metal they won’t be using any body filler so when the guy comes out for the diminished value claim he should see similar measurements on the paint gauge compared to the stock side.

Soonest they can get me in is April 25 so it’ll be awesome driving a dented up car for nearly 2 months. :pout:
Wow that seems completely excessive for that sort of damage …

Also I had some paint work on the mini because of the deer incident… I’m incredibly anal about it to be honest and I had them redo part of the door because I saw fish eyes. That said … once it was done it is a perfect match and I can’t tell a difference.

Also remember the Nigerian that rear ended my 335i fake sport ? They also did a perfect color match.

Modern paint tech is excellent
Yeah I think it’ll be alright. I 100% need a new front door as there’s a crack on backside in the door jam area. Since the rear door is totally smooth they don’t think PDR would be good enough. So with new doors that means front and rear quarters need to be blended

This shop doesn’t mess around though. Only OEM parts and they’re very thorough. For instance, when I took my GTI to the lousy geico shop, they never blended my tow hook cover on the front bumper. Most people probably wouldn’t notice but I did. On the Mk7 R, this shop blended the rear tow hook cover and all 4 parking sensors so everything looked the same.
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Gberg2119 wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 5:27 pm
max225 wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 3:13 pm

Wow that seems completely excessive for that sort of damage …

Also I had some paint work on the mini because of the deer incident… I’m incredibly anal about it to be honest and I had them redo part of the door because I saw fish eyes. That said … once it was done it is a perfect match and I can’t tell a difference.

Also remember the Nigerian that rear ended my 335i fake sport ? They also did a perfect color match.

Modern paint tech is excellent
Yeah I think it’ll be alright. I 100% need a new front door as there’s a crack on backside in the door jam area. Since the rear door is totally smooth they don’t think PDR would be good enough. So with new doors that means front and rear quarters need to be blended

This shop doesn’t mess around though. Only OEM parts and they’re very thorough. For instance, when I took my GTI to the lousy geico shop, they never blended my tow hook cover on the front bumper. Most people probably wouldn’t notice but I did. On the Mk7 R, this shop blended the rear tow hook cover and all 4 parking sensors so everything looked the same.
Cavallo are legit. I honestly think they put out as good work as Karosserie do.
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fledonfoot wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 8:29 pm
Gberg2119 wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 5:27 pm

Yeah I think it’ll be alright. I 100% need a new front door as there’s a crack on backside in the door jam area. Since the rear door is totally smooth they don’t think PDR would be good enough. So with new doors that means front and rear quarters need to be blended

This shop doesn’t mess around though. Only OEM parts and they’re very thorough. For instance, when I took my GTI to the lousy geico shop, they never blended my tow hook cover on the front bumper. Most people probably wouldn’t notice but I did. On the Mk7 R, this shop blended the rear tow hook cover and all 4 parking sensors so everything looked the same.
Cavallo are legit. I honestly think they put out as good work as Karosserie do.
I’ve never heard of Karosserie but they look super :fancy:
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Cavallo does good work they’re just slow
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Fuckin' a. I hate when people hit cars on the street because 'there usually isn't a car there'... :wtf: that is some serious negligence. Sorry man.

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I don’t understand it … does one pull out blind ? What is their vehicle ? No backup camera ?

It’s 2022 this seems negligent at the least
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max225 wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 11:08 am I don’t understand it … does one pull out blind ? What is their vehicle ? No backup camera ?

It’s 2022 this seems negligent at the least
:dat: what if some kid (or adult) was riding their bike past that driveway? It better have been an armored truck from the 1960s or something.
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max225 wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 11:08 am I don’t understand it … does one pull out blind ? What is their vehicle ? No backup camera ?

It’s 2022 this seems negligent at the least
It’s total negligence. She just backed out without looking. They live at the end of a cul de sac so you have to park nose first between the houses. You can kind of see the other cars doing the same thing in the background. It’s a shared driveway too so she just backed out and cut the wheel right into the side of the R.

She’s just a nutty old lady. It’s a 2015 RAV4 so that was before the backup camera requirement. I forgot to even look at her car the day it happened but my brother checked it out the next day looking for blue paint. He said there are so many scratches and dings in the bumper there’s no way to tell.
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Gberg2119 wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 12:33 pm
max225 wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 11:08 am I don’t understand it … does one pull out blind ? What is their vehicle ? No backup camera ?

It’s 2022 this seems negligent at the least
It’s total negligence. She just backed out without looking. They live at the end of a cul de sac so you have to park nose first between the houses. You can kind of see the other cars doing the same thing in the background. It’s a shared driveway too so she just backed out and cut the wheel right into the side of the R.

She’s just a nutty old lady. It’s a 2015 RAV4 so that was before the backup camera requirement. I forgot to even look at her car the day it happened but my brother checked it out the next day looking for blue paint. He said there are so many scratches and dings in the bumper there’s no way to tell.
Man the bishes HATE your cars.
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Gberg2119 wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 12:33 pm
max225 wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 11:08 am I don’t understand it … does one pull out blind ? What is their vehicle ? No backup camera ?

It’s 2022 this seems negligent at the least
It’s total negligence. She just backed out without looking. They live at the end of a cul de sac so you have to park nose first between the houses. You can kind of see the other cars doing the same thing in the background. It’s a shared driveway too so she just backed out and cut the wheel right into the side of the R.

She’s just a nutty old lady. It’s a 2015 RAV4 so that was before the backup camera requirement. I forgot to even look at her car the day it happened but my brother checked it out the next day looking for blue paint. He said there are so many scratches and dings in the bumper there’s no way to tell.
:rage: sorry dude..
Does 2015 Toyota RAV4 have backup camera?
A rearview camera is standard in the 2015 RAV4.
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Desertbreh wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 12:50 pm
Gberg2119 wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 12:33 pm

It’s total negligence. She just backed out without looking. They live at the end of a cul de sac so you have to park nose first between the houses. You can kind of see the other cars doing the same thing in the background. It’s a shared driveway too so she just backed out and cut the wheel right into the side of the R.

She’s just a nutty old lady. It’s a 2015 RAV4 so that was before the backup camera requirement. I forgot to even look at her car the day it happened but my brother checked it out the next day looking for blue paint. He said there are so many scratches and dings in the bumper there’s no way to tell.
Man the bishes HATE your cars.
Old ladies love running into bright blue eggs. :iono:

I guess I now get to experience what it’s like being a Altima driver until it’s in the shop.
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This is so annoying dude. I’m sorry.

Did cavallo give you any idea on how long it will take to complete the repairs? They were never up front about that with me.
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Johnny_P wrote: Sat Mar 05, 2022 9:00 pm This is so annoying dude. I’m sorry.

Did cavallo give you any idea on how long it will take to complete the repairs? They were never up front about that with me.
They made it seem like it’ll be fairly quick but they didn’t give me a timetable. They can’t order the doors until it’s in the shop and I still need someone from my insurance to come and take a look at it. But with shortages everywhere who knows how long it’ll take them to get doors. As it’s just a golf I wouldn’t think they’d have a hard time but who knows.

On a side not, I won’t even put my summers on as I probably need to buy a new englishtown. First time ever I crubbed a wheel. Went through my VW wheel and tire package and the repair shop refinished it twice but it still looks like shit next to an untouched englishtown. They won’t replace it because it still holds air and I’m afraid once I mount them it’ll be obvious.

Or I could mount them and drive a hoopty GoRf. :lol:
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