Gerry, this is on the inside of the vehicle? Would a cleaner work, or is the plastic gouged?

 

don't sand it down!! Gerry, post a picture of it for me and I'll tell ya how to fix it.

 

The red one form the first movie, I heard that was a auto because Vin Dieseal didnt know how to drive a manual? what kind of numbers did it put down?

 

the plastic is scuffed/ gouged. it's the black plastic area that is exposed when you open the door- just parallel/ over the metal "rx-8 logo plate" parallel to the door.

ok. i'll try to take a picture of it later and post it. thanks jorge/ keith

 

the replica in the movie was an Auto....the car on Saturday is was the Real thing. no dyno numbers for it.

 

sweet and no one has pictures?

 

i got my escrow check and i am going to sign papers work for our home tonight!

 

It was on a lift, about 6 feet from the ground and was covered by a car cover....we had to ask "hey, whats under the cover" before he would tell us....and even then, he wasn't too excited to pull back the covers, so, he basically just lifted up on one of the sides to quickly give a peek.

I haven't been able to look at the pics from the dyno day yet (because of my damn work browser setting)...but there should be two cars in the background. One, was a red FD on the ground, and the other was the Fast and Furious FD under a car cover, lifted well above the ground.

 

i'm not sure if that will work. if the page goes down, so do the URLs.

explanation:
alot of those pix are posted on this site are posted by clicking on the "manage attachment" button. That means that those pix are saved onto this site's server. Because of that, if this thread does go down, so will those pix.

 

congrats!

 

When we broke for lunch, I convinced Steve to take her down off the lift and remove the car cover. It was pretty cool to see the actual F&F car! He even had the certificat from Universal showing that it was the authentic.

 

Well, hadn't heard anything from the dealership yesterday, and hadn't heard anything by lunch today, so i called to get an update. They didn't have one for me, but stated that they would call later with one. No call, so went down after work. My car was up on the lift, and they had the transmission out, along with a long laundery list of stuff that needed to be replaced.

Just parts, came out to something like 2300 bucks....I asked how much a brand new transmission would be, simple swap that way. New trans costs 3200.

They called my extended warranty plan provider, and they were unwilling to authorize the job, and will be flying out an inspector to check things out. I guess it is up to that one person whether my extended warranty plan will cover the damages, or whether Erica and I sit in the car for our honeymoon....

 

honeymoon coming up already???

 

Late June...early july.....but a 2300 hit, plus the 1400 to take the transmission apart is going to put quite a sting in everything.

 

you guys got married?!

when was that?!!!

 

dang... so mazda would rather spend $1,840 flying him out here than just paying the claim? that doesn't seem like a wise decision, considering it's over 50% the cost of the new tranny already.

let's see, loosely estimated, let's say he flies coach $1,000 on airfare & airport taxes (from japan) + about $300 for the inspector's daily salary (2 days travel, 2 days inspecting) + $300 on his hotel + $240 on his meals/ per diems. and, that doesn't even include his hotel pay-per-view movies, strippers, and god-knows what else these guys try to expense when they take trips like this. man.

well, hang in there keith. i hope they give you some resolution soon.

 

ok, i pulled the car out for some pix. and, it didn't look as bad today as it did yesterday. the flash from the camera made it hard to get a good pix. but, here we go... any ideas what might smooth out the plastic that's been gouged? thanks

 

p.s. here are some pix i took of my car after Jun helped me detail this past sunday. (thanks Jun!) i posted them on the mr. clean autodry thread... i wish the sun were brighter, but i think u can still sort of tell that the car is happy & shiny

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...65#post1810865

 

that doesnt look so bad detrich, at least you cant see it 95 percent of the time. should we do a mazda voodoo dance for the guy to approve the work? you should talk to the other guys who had their transmission replaced and see if they had to go through these hoops and possibly use them as reference.
Good luck everyone.

DAMN forum was down again and up and down, i dont think the big threads are going to to do diddly squat.

 

Yeah, the 'big-threads' solution is coming - you might want to bookmark this thread so you can access any useful info in it, after it's closed......

S

 

Hey Gerry, that scuff really doesn't look bad. My passenger side is super scuffed up by my friends and that piece is easily replaceable. (I think it just pops off) You can't polish the scuff plate since it's a "soft plastic". Anyways looks like you did a great job doing the final polish did you check in the sunlight or with a halogen light if you got all the micro marring out of the hood with the final polish (since I went pretty agressive on the hood)? If the sonus paintwork cleanser or sfx-3 didn't take out the micro marring on the hood you can always go over it with sfx-1 restore.

 

no way they would fly someone for Japan for this. they will send someone from Mazda North America (right here in Sunny Sothern California... although I would think they would just drive)

sucks to hear Keith... what was their reasoning for the decission? you have a warrentee.....

you could always find a used tranny form a used engine/trans shop. I would guess around $400 for a trans with 15,000 miles on it. you olose the $1400, but save a crap load of money on the rest.

 

Casey, can you make a new thread called "2007 San Bernardino Cruise" ?

Thanks!

 

do we know for sure if he will toss this thread? I was hoping that since we "asked" he might let one slip?

 

yeah lets wait be book mark it just incase