I HATE this car...
03-08-2011, 02:15 AM
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2. He had the cost of like $600 bucks. Peanuts.
I know people with an almost new VW Passat that had to fork out $2500 for a transmission fix not covered by warranty due to previous owner being an idiot. Still didn't hate on the car.
Pissing and moaning doesn't get you anywhere. Complaining about 45 bucks for breaking something in the car doesn't make sense to me. OP should buy a 10 year old civic if he needs a cheap beater.
The 8 is quirky though, but do some bloody research before buying a car is all I have to say to that
03-08-2011, 02:43 AM
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Just because one can buy a car cheap, doesn't mean it's cheap to repair. Assuming your tightness of funds is not due to unforeseen circumstance, your problem is poor planning. To pick a number, $9k will buy a very fine reliable Corolla, or a near worn-out RX-8. Which do you think is the wiser choice, given your "tight funds"?
03-08-2011, 05:38 AM
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As do I, 81,000. I have no idea why people keep having theirs break. Maybe they are yanking on the visor itself instead of applying pressure right at the clip where it snaps into and out of place.
My friend asks why he should have to do that, but
it's the best way even if it was made of titanium, simple the least amount of pressure needed to clip or unclip it.
Agreed
My 8 has had less issues than my Corolla did. .Including my 8's engine has lasted longer (81,000) than my Corolla's engine (72,000)
How about dem apples?
My friend asks why he should have to do that, but
it's the best way even if it was made of titanium, simple the least amount of pressure needed to clip or unclip it.My 8 has had less issues than my Corolla did. .Including my 8's engine has lasted longer (81,000) than my Corolla's engine (72,000)
How about dem apples?
03-08-2011, 05:48 AM
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As do I, 81,000. I have no idea why people keep having theirs break. Maybe they are yanking on the visor itself instead of applying pressure right at the clip where it snaps into and out of place.
My friend asks why he should have to do that, but it's the best way even if it was made of titanium, simple the least amount of pressure needed to clip or unclip it.
Agreed
My 8 has had less issues than my Corolla did. .Including my 8's engine has lasted longer (81,000) than my Corolla's engine (72,000)
How about dem apples?
My friend asks why he should have to do that, but
it's the best way even if it was made of titanium, simple the least amount of pressure needed to clip or unclip it.Agreed
My 8 has had less issues than my Corolla did. .Including my 8's engine has lasted longer (81,000) than my Corolla's engine (72,000)
How about dem apples?
03-08-2011, 06:15 AM
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03-08-2011, 07:01 AM
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Unless the visor can break from just sitting in the sun without any interaction from a creature that has some type of blood pumping through it, be it animal or human or insect, etc... I still believe that the primary reason is people yanking on the visor in ways that applies force to the visor body itself trying to get some small component of that force applied to the clip.
Whatever else may weaken the visor or not. Who knows. Mine might be made of eggshells at this point, but I've always used two fingers lightly, one on the clip one on the 'barrel' that goes in the clip, I simply don't apply force to the visor itself. Never have. And it's in perfect condition.
I could be wrong. It has happened before. Just ask my wife
03-08-2011, 07:26 AM
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Unless the visor can break from just sitting in the sun without any interaction from a creature that has some type of blood pumping through it, be it animal or human or insect, etc... I still believe that the primary reason is people yanking on the visor in ways that applies force to the visor body itself trying to get some small component of that force applied to the clip.
Whatever else may weaken the visor or not. Who knows. Mine might be made of eggshells at this point, but I've always used two fingers lightly, one on the clip one on the 'barrel' that goes in the clip, I simply don't apply force to the visor itself. Never have. And it's in perfect condition.
I could be wrong. It has happened before. Just ask my wife
03-08-2011, 08:22 AM
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The RX-8 is missed
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Unless the visor can break from just sitting in the sun without any interaction from a creature that has some type of blood pumping through it, be it animal or human or insect, etc... I still believe that the primary reason is people yanking on the visor in ways that applies force to the visor body itself trying to get some small component of that force applied to the clip.
Whatever else may weaken the visor or not. Who knows. Mine might be made of eggshells at this point, but I've always used two fingers lightly, one on the clip one on the 'barrel' that goes in the clip, I simply don't apply force to the visor itself. Never have. And it's in perfect condition.
I could be wrong. It has happened before. Just ask my wife
i get your points, but as an owner in tx where you repeatedly see 110 degrees and up, yes, it is heat related. i don't slam my visor down or up, and mine broke. it took 5 years or so, but it just gave out one day. just sayin'
03-09-2011, 07:02 AM
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As do I, 81,000. I have no idea why people keep having theirs break. Maybe they are yanking on the visor itself instead of applying pressure right at the clip where it snaps into and out of place.
My friend asks why he should have to do that, but it's the best way even if it was made of titanium, simple the least amount of pressure needed to clip or unclip it.
Agreed
My 8 has had less issues than my Corolla did. .Including my 8's engine has lasted longer (81,000) than my Corolla's engine (72,000)
How about dem apples?
My friend asks why he should have to do that, but
it's the best way even if it was made of titanium, simple the least amount of pressure needed to clip or unclip it.Agreed
My 8 has had less issues than my Corolla did. .Including my 8's engine has lasted longer (81,000) than my Corolla's engine (72,000)
How about dem apples?
03-09-2011, 07:15 AM
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My last Toyota was my 02 Corolla, and my experience with that whole mess has sworn me off from owning one of their cars again. Not the typical "I had a problem with 1 car so the entire line must be garbage" opinion though. In general, they make great cars. It's why they are as big as they are. But I refuse to own something that has such a colossal lack of post-purchase support. The entire duration of ownership, every time I had to deal with the dealer was like getting slowly disembowled with a spoon, even when I was paying out of pocket and not seeking a warranty claim. And then when my engine blew from the oil sludging problem (which they agreed was a covered warranty issue and paid for the rebuild, the sludge clogged two sprayers, I had proof of all maintenance), it took them 2 months to do the 6 hour rebuild, fought against giving me a loaner for 3 weeks (which was spelled out clearly in the extended warranty), I finally got the car back and they had removed most of the bolts from my dash and it fell on my legs as I was leaving the parking lot (and then wanted me to schedule an appointment to come back in a few weeks to get it fixed for free), side to side scratches all over the roof (like they slid boxes back and forth), had apparently lost my original lug nuts so when I got a flat a few weeks later it took 3 different lug wrenches to get THAT 4-lug wheel off, another 2 sizes to get the rest of the mismatched lugs off the other wheels, and to top it off, the reinstallation of the engine to the transmission was done improperly and a seal was out of place and it drained the transmission fluid and fried the transmission (which another toyota dealer which discovered that said it was the dealer's bad service, the warranty company agreed, and the original dealer said it was a warranty issue, no one blamed me, but no one would pay for it).
I ended up suing them and going round and round with them in court for a couple years.
The entire time Corp Toyota refused to exercise any level of suggestion, instruction, or control over the situation to either their finance arm (that held the warranty), or to either dealer involved (one that diagnosed the transmission issue, the other who screwed everything up to begin with).
I was laughing my *** off at their complete inability to manage the PR issue of the 'sudden acceleration'.
I ended up suing them and going round and round with them in court for a couple years.
The entire time Corp Toyota refused to exercise any level of suggestion, instruction, or control over the situation to either their finance arm (that held the warranty), or to either dealer involved (one that diagnosed the transmission issue, the other who screwed everything up to begin with).
I was laughing my *** off at their complete inability to manage the PR issue of the 'sudden acceleration'.
03-14-2011, 05:15 PM
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Vtak just kicked in yo!!
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Trust me, your issues are minor. You would've killed yourself if you had to repair some of the stuff I had to on my previous 8. Be grateful, spend a couple hundred bucks, and enjoy the car.
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