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I had a charger. Lovely vehicle but I kept having issues, and it was new.
My brother got the newer sport model a few years ago and the entire computer system went haywire. Couldn't charge phones, couldn't change settings (seats would heat automatically, no AC as it's through the computer) no radio or blue tooth.
Had to replace the whole computer system linked through the radio, $1300.
I hate New cars.
I’ve had several problems with mine it’s a 2015. However, I bought the car in California when I was helping to take care of my dad when he was dying. At the time they had a lifetime bumper-to-bumper warranty. All I have to pay is $100 co-pay to have repairs done on my vehicle. Of course this is minus basic maintenance like brakes, lightbulbs, and other little things that normally you would have to pay for yourself. Tires etc…. I consider this a gift from my father, and from the Lord, because My car is in perfect condition because I keep up on all of the repairs. It’s $100 each time I take it to the shop. So if I wait for a couple of issues to build up, then I only paid $100 for bringing it there. Not for each problem. I’m very fortunate and very grateful. For some reason they don’t sell those warranties anymore! LOL. They were counting on me selling my vehicle within five years, and I will not be doing that. I will keep that car for the rest of my life. My favorite car ever, best car ever, and I am very satisfied and grateful.
That is amazing! My car is a 13 year old Rav 4 with close to 100,000 miles and it runs great. This year the alternator fried, I had to get it towed and went to a mechanic recommended by a friend.
Dude changed the alternator and said it looked like lightning struck it. Changed a few fuses too supposedly and charged me 1100 for the repairs (tow was another company).
A few weeks later, sizzle BOOM alternator blows again. I went to a different mechanic who changed the alternator for a new one. Previous guy had used a rebuilt one but sold it as new to me (piece of shit) and I was nervous that it would happen again. Guy charged me 350 (way less) and guaranteed the part so if it happens again he'd swap it for free.
A week later i take a trip down the shore and rent a house with a friend. We harbored a fugitive murderer day 1 unknowingly but that's another story. Coming back, a few miles from home I hear an explosion in my car while driving, pull over...yep, blown alternator. Had it towed to the same mechanic he swapped it for another new one and this time I took it to the dealer.
Turns out the cooling pump was broken and the car was overheating causing the alternators to blow like that. Next time I'm going straight to the dealer and bypassing any other mechanic.
That's my luck. I've had terrible luck with bikes and cars. Blown clutch that was bad for the factory, tons of other issues, blown tranny on my brother's stick shift 80 miles from home in the middle of a snow storm while heading upstate,
Popped 3 tires from a bad batch of tires in one week.
Another 3 tires got flats in 1 week because I kept getting nails stuck in them even though I was just driving highway and parking in clean parking lots for orientation for a new job.
I kid you not, my luck with vehicles is the worst that ever was with anyone who ever existed.
Wow that’s some crazy bad luck with vehicles. I’m glad you finally found out what the real problem was. But yes… I only take my car to the dealership. That’s the only place the warranty is actually valid. But they fix it with OEM parts, and if there’s a problem I go right back there and a bitch them out. And yes they don’t always do their job, but they’re always a little worried when they see me coming. I’ve been taking my car there for seven years, and I don’t think they make that much money doing warranty repairs.
Oddly enough I’ve had the same problems with tires. One day I got two flat tires on the same side of my car. Talk about trying to get somebody out to fix that. It was a nightmare. AAA will only send somebody out to assist you with your vehicle if you have a spare, but if you have two flat tires you only have one spare. Let’s just say I flipped out on him that day.
I too have had multiple flat tires within weeks or in the same month of one another. I mean ridiculous amounts of flat tires, screws, nuts, bolts, and just basic $10 tire repairs over and over.
I don’t know where you bought your tires, but the dealership had a special on Goodyear tires by three get one free. We’re set of tires I’ve ever had. I’m pretty sure that they’re either poorly made, or defective on purpose. Yes there’s a warranty on them from the dealership, but you’re not gonna go all the way to the dealership for a screw in your tire, or stuff like that.
I will never buy tires from the dealership ever again, and I will never buy tires on special. Do you think you’re getting a deal, but in the long run, the amount of problems that you have to deal with it’s not worth the savings.
One time I had to empty my entire trunk out, and change my tire myself, because AAA couldn’t be there for at least an hour. This was in the summer, and Arizona in 110° I’m a woman, not one person stop to offer me assistance, even the security officer for that Shopping Center, sat at a distance and watched. I was furious! However, I do know how to change a tire, And every woman should.
This is what feminism has done to the world. Also it was some upscale shopping center with like an AJ‘s or high-end fruit and vegetable market. Of course no one‘s going to stop… They’re all too busy trying to keep up with the Joneses to help anybody. Snobs!
Haha you seem to have your fair share of luck, and agreed on people being less helpful l. Though in my experience someone usually stops and offers a jump or something but if the damage is more than a dead battery, not much they can do.
Good on you, everyone should learn the basics. Many people don't even check air pressure, fluids, etc. Let alone know how to change a tire on the fly.
Usually when I'm in my car I have somewhere to be so ill stop by pulled over people and ask if they're okay and if they need to make a call or something.
When I'm Joy riding on the motorcycle I pull over for basically anyone stopped on the side of the highway. Helped a clueless guy change his tire, it was so rusted I had to ride to a hardware store to get some 3 in 1 and ended up with more stains on my hands and face than Trudeau in blackface.
I've found bikers pull over far more for me, probably because like me, they are joy riding and spot a brother in distress haha.
My other reply was very long… But I’m not letting you get away with the comment about harboring a criminal. You have to tell me the story. I want to hear it. Either reply to this, or DM me. I’m sure it’s very interesting. This is what I come to this forum for. To interact with real people. Not to see the same post over and over and over again. I already know the state of the nation, I’d like to meet up with people, with stories like this. Please share with me!
Haha nothing slips past you huh? So I booked an airbnb down the shore with my last remaining friend. We had been wanting to do a vacation together for years and never did it due to different circumstances.
This year I've sure it happened, I fronted the expenses so we could go on with it and it went through. So day 1 we do some food shopping (which we never ended up making because we just partied, went to the beach, ate out, etc).
That first night was amazing. It was warm, the sun started going down and the sky was a medley of gorgeous pastel colors, a gentle sea breeze tickling the skin. I knew it would be a great night.
And it was, met a bunch of people. This was shortly after Jersey took down mandates and it was my first time in like a year actually going out and it feeling like it should without distancing and masks and all that bs.
Shore people and western/central/southern Jersey folk are pretty based, it's the northeasterners that fuck it up, which is exactly where I am, I can see NYC from where I live xD
Anyway, night goes on and bars close, so we head back to our little rental house. As my friend fumbles for the key I see a hat in the backyard and I'm confused. I realize it's some dude laying on his back, so I yell out, "Ey guy, you okay?"
He gets up and walks toward me, he's shaken up. I see that and start some casual chatter to make him feel at ease. He is being ambiguous but I'm not prodding.
Just saying he's in trouble, that he messed up, dude just looked defeated. I figured he cheated on his lady and she booted him from his house or something. I invite him inside because it's getting chilly, offer him a beer, he asks for my phone so he can contact his niece. He tries but she doesn't answer.
In any case he tells me he's gotta go and will probably go to Ohio. I ask him if he wants to sleep on the couch as my friend and I each had our own bedrooms, but he says he just wants to go.
I call him an uber to the train station and give him some cash to take trains or busses or whatever he needs because I felt for him.
Next day I get a call from his niece asks me who the fuck I am and what the fuck am I involved in. I tell her to chill the fuck out, and explained the last night. She tells me her uncle shot some dude in the head in Brooklyn and fled.
Somehow he fled from Brooklyn and ended up in my rental backyard iver 80 miles away the same night he did this.
She sent me a link to a police report with his mugshot and the crime and sure enough he was wanted for homicide in Brooklyn.
He ended up getting caught at the train station or shortly thereafter.
Honestly at that point my friend was freaking out and I chuckled and told him, "It's only day 1 of our vacation." 😆