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Does your suspension creak since the collision ? Ours does when stopping and sometimes when cornering . Hope all goes well for you .
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Not so far. Appears to drive normally. Happy with the estimate given the possible extent of the dammage.
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After two weeks of driving a rent a reck (Cavalier w 148k) my Yaris is back from the shop! It feels like Im driving the most awesome car in the world compared to that.
Jebus they detailed it! Its beautiful! The drivers door inside surface had marks and scratches all over it. They are GONE! The RF hubcap was trashed but they put 4 new ones on. I think. Unless they rubbed the scratches off the other 3? Is that possible? Do caps come only 4 to a set? This is the car I drove NJ to AK and back last summer 10,400 miles 17 days.
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Congrats! It looks as though they really did do an awesome job
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Better than ever
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The only thing I forgot was to ask them why does the paint scratch so easily?
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The AC makes the building I work in so cold that even when its 100 degrees when I leave work in the afternoon I dont use the AC in the Yaris.
On weekends at home its another story. Although for the sake of economy I use it sparingly.
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The clearcoat does get swirls and scratches in it very easily . We always politely ask service departments that give car washes not give one due to the clearcoat . One service center did it when asked not to and there were swirls all over it . That was the Blazing Blue 3 door .
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![]() I can see not turning the A/C on on the way home from work, especially if you don't have to sit it traffic for a long time on 80, 78, 287, the Turnpike, or the GSP. It's amazing how cold A/C can make some offices, shops, restaurants, etc. Here in SE Texas I notice this re Starbucks, so I keep a rain poncho in my Yaris to put on if I get too cold in a Starbucks (and to keep me dry when a 'not in the forecast' bout of rain comes along....happens more often than in California). |
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The heat and humidity in Houston in the summer are brutal. AC is a matter of survival.
Clyde Barrow and his family moved to the Dallas area after giving up sharecropping in the 20s. They lived under a wagon for 2 years. Unimaginable. In NJ the humidity can rival Houston, the heat not quite so much but we can have a couple of uncomfortable weeks in summer.
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I don't think I could handle that heat .. which is for me harder to handle than the cold. I can handle -40C/-40F .. without too much pain (for short periods of time anyways), but anything over 86 degrees (30 C) is just too hot for me. I know I am a wimp .. but really it seldom gets much over 30C here, which I am very happy about.
The interesting thing .. is that my brother has a house in Phoenix (where it gets as hot as anywhere in the US), and my parents have a house in Palm Springs (not much better). So .. what is it. Well it is a Canadian thing .. that if you can afford it, you can actually enjoy warmer climates rather than freezing your *** off at home. I don't think that I will ever get to that state .. so for me I just hope that me and my Yaris will get thru the winter. Personally .. the best climate I have ever seen is in Hawaii where 78F/26C is just about right. I also like southern California (Los Angeles area .. where I have found it very nice in January.) Anyone that is tired of the heat can come for a visit .. it was 53F / 12C here today. That is definitely not hot and not cold. Just about where I like it. Oh yea ... one final little note. Unlike all of you, I have never used the air conditioning in my Yaris. Helps with the fuel economy. |
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You're right, Palm Springs is a bit better, and I find that I can handle being there. I have a friend who lives in Rancho Mirage and has spent at least 6 months a year in that valley since 1984. He told me that the valley has become less dry re all the development and especially because of the addition of so many golf courses. When I thought about the time I've spent there over the same period (but I was young when I first went there) I'd have to say I agree with him. His wife loves it there too and some of her relatives have made that move as well. Wow! No A/C use ever. I wonder how many of your fellow Canadian members can say that. |
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^^^^^ I should say Phoenix is the one place where the heat index often gets higher than the Texas Urban Triangle because the heat index can in Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Austin get as high as it does in Houston.
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