What did you do to your SC today?
01-22-16, 10:55 AM
#5975
Someone hit my quarter panel around thanksgiving and it has been a huge headache. It took over a month to figure out if the other driver had insurance, then having to worry about the car becoming totaled since the SC only has a kbb of $3k. The last straw was having the body shop make so many mistakes on the car. To fix the quarter panel they told me they had to paint both quarter panels and the roof since there was no break in the body line. The shop did a great job of fixing the area where the dent was, but as a result of them painting most of my car it created all these other little flaws on the rest of the car.
They called me to tell me my car was ready, but they forgot to fix a few dings, so they kept the car another 5 days, then when I came to pick up the car I pointed out a few areas of concern, so they had to keep it 2 or 3 more days. I didn't look at the car the day I picked it up because it was raining, but they told me their whole team looked over my car and I shouldn't find any more flaws.
When I got home I found over spray all over the rear of the car, and they had broken my 3 button remote key and glued it back together. I also noticed that when in my garage the paint shade was off (I used to detail cars, so I have a lot of lights in my garage to see paint imperfections). The car looks acceptable now, but in 2 or 3 years it'll be completely off. I had to go back to the shop another time to get a new key and have them clean off the over spray on my rear bumper. Since then I've found more over spray on my doors and a few more spots they didn't spray evenly. The worse part is that most of this could have been prevented if they spent more time prepping and masking the car. It's annoying knowing that my car was in nicer condition before it went into the body shop.
The only way to fix the flaws would be to have the entire car repainted, but I don't feel like spending $4k on paint right now, so I decided to just convert it back to stock and move on.
To be fair, the bag system was for sale before I ever installed it. Since there wasn't much interest at my original price I decided to use it for a few months and cut the price to make it more affordable.
01-22-16, 02:07 PM
#5976
Lexus Test Driver
I'm not sure what I'll be getting next, but I'm done modifying this SC. I'll be giving the car to my dad when I pick up a new car. I've replaced almost 90% of the car, so I know its in better condition than his current car.
Someone hit my quarter panel around thanksgiving and it has been a huge headache. It took over a month to figure out if the other driver had insurance, then having to worry about the car becoming totaled since the SC only has a kbb of $3k. The last straw was having the body shop make so many mistakes on the car. To fix the quarter panel they told me they had to paint both quarter panels and the roof since there was no break in the body line. The shop did a great job of fixing the area where the dent was, but as a result of them painting most of my car it created all these other little flaws on the rest of the car.
They called me to tell me my car was ready, but they forgot to fix a few dings, so they kept the car another 5 days, then when I came to pick up the car I pointed out a few areas of concern, so they had to keep it 2 or 3 more days. I didn't look at the car the day I picked it up because it was raining, but they told me their whole team looked over my car and I shouldn't find any more flaws.
When I got home I found over spray all over the rear of the car, and they had broken my 3 button remote key and glued it back together. I also noticed that when in my garage the paint shade was off (I used to detail cars, so I have a lot of lights in my garage to see paint imperfections). The car looks acceptable now, but in 2 or 3 years it'll be completely off. I had to go back to the shop another time to get a new key and have them clean off the over spray on my rear bumper. Since then I've found more over spray on my doors and a few more spots they didn't spray evenly. The worse part is that most of this could have been prevented if they spent more time prepping and masking the car. It's annoying knowing that my car was in nicer condition before it went into the body shop.
The only way to fix the flaws would be to have the entire car repainted, but I don't feel like spending $4k on paint right now, so I decided to just convert it back to stock and move on
Someone hit my quarter panel around thanksgiving and it has been a huge headache. It took over a month to figure out if the other driver had insurance, then having to worry about the car becoming totaled since the SC only has a kbb of $3k. The last straw was having the body shop make so many mistakes on the car. To fix the quarter panel they told me they had to paint both quarter panels and the roof since there was no break in the body line. The shop did a great job of fixing the area where the dent was, but as a result of them painting most of my car it created all these other little flaws on the rest of the car.
They called me to tell me my car was ready, but they forgot to fix a few dings, so they kept the car another 5 days, then when I came to pick up the car I pointed out a few areas of concern, so they had to keep it 2 or 3 more days. I didn't look at the car the day I picked it up because it was raining, but they told me their whole team looked over my car and I shouldn't find any more flaws.
When I got home I found over spray all over the rear of the car, and they had broken my 3 button remote key and glued it back together. I also noticed that when in my garage the paint shade was off (I used to detail cars, so I have a lot of lights in my garage to see paint imperfections). The car looks acceptable now, but in 2 or 3 years it'll be completely off. I had to go back to the shop another time to get a new key and have them clean off the over spray on my rear bumper. Since then I've found more over spray on my doors and a few more spots they didn't spray evenly. The worse part is that most of this could have been prevented if they spent more time prepping and masking the car. It's annoying knowing that my car was in nicer condition before it went into the body shop.
The only way to fix the flaws would be to have the entire car repainted, but I don't feel like spending $4k on paint right now, so I decided to just convert it back to stock and move on
01-23-16, 07:00 PM
#5979
Yes man sorry to hear that this happened to your ride, I was researching and came to conclusion there is nothing equates to quality and reliability of Lexus and Toyota products out there on the market 
that's from the personal life experience.
I hope it works out for you!
that's from the personal life experience.I hope it works out for you!
01-30-16, 09:20 AM
#5984
Yesterday, I gave a friend a ride who has a 5-series BMW and an Escalade. He guessed the car had 350 HP and was shocked when I told him it's "only" 250 HP (less whatever the factory overrated it at, plus whatever I've added with I/E and manifold porting). Yay for torque!
01-31-16, 08:25 AM
#5985
attempted to clean my TB. I didnt know there was a bolt back there that secured the inlet so I F'd around for about 5 minutes trying to determine WTF was holding the thing on, I also managed to crack the inlet duct hose while removing it. I think it was already cracked, I just made it much bigger. Found a cracked hose that leads off the inlet pipe down to somewhere so I cut it back and attempoted to put it back onto the spud, cracked it even more! so I cut it back again and grafted in a piece of softer rubber line with a coupler. I had an off idle dead spot on the throttle that wife complained about and I knew about. didnt like the way it cleaned so Off it comes for a deep cleaning. Whats the second blade in there for, up front? The electrical connection for that just pulled off, I dont think it was snapped in. I siliconed the crack for the time being.