Teh Jatt

hey all....

**** i just ****ed up my car.... I started backing my car and **** I hit one of the cars :banghead: and right side mirror broked and the door got few scratches and I think door will be fixed by the touch up, no dints... well does any body have estimate on the mirror? I called the salesman since parts dept. was closed and he had no idea and I asked him about '03 model and he had no idea on that either.

I just can't believe this **** happened.

svtmike

I did something similar to that to my old Taurus SHO once: I took the passenger side mirror off on my garage door frame. That car didn't have collapsible mirrors, so it was bodywork plus the mirror to fix it.

Mike

JoganJani

Sorry to hear it desijat. Too bad. I saw somewhere integra mirros for $63 couple of days back. Let me dig in my history and I'll send the URL your way. They might have some for new TL for reasonable price.

Teh Jatt

ok **** I saw the dent in the door, I couldn't tell it from looking straight at it... I looked it from different angles and saw it.... man... sucks big time... this car is been out for few montsh now... will I be able to get an estimate ? what you all think?

Flanagan

I think you should look at this as an opportunity for both yourself and your fellow a-tl-ers. People have been complaining about the wind noise with the stock mirrors. Since aftermarket mirrors tend to be cheaper, your might be able to replace both your mirrors for the same price as, if not less than, using OE parts. Then you can have a one-of-a-kind TL and report to everyone how if affected the wind noise. I'm only kidding slightly...

If the dent in your door isn't TOO bad, they'll be able to pop it out and touch it up for fairly cheap (<$100)

jdl75

I replaced my right mirror for $225 after someone ripped it off. It was a 15 minmute install.

jattilicious

hai hai bechara...nazar lag gaee...poor guy i'm sorry that happened. I would be so pissed!!! hope it all works out

VC Slim

As one who has recently marred a perfect exterior, I too send you my regrets. Let us know how it works out.

narmeen

Sorry to hear this...Good Luck in getting everything fixed!

youngmic

VC Slim, tell us your story.

I have 4, yes 4 places where I've marred my exterior.

1. Small 1mm x 1cm nick in center of rear bumper from wife touching it with one of our other cars.

2. 4" x 1" road rash under left front bumper from wife taking a driveway too fast.

3. 2 3" scrapes beneath and a 1cm round patch on the side right behind the passenger side rear wheel where I pulled too close to an unusually high curb while parallel parking.

4. 3 2" marks on the driver side lower body panel from I don't know what. These are light and are in the clear coat. Not sure if they're scratches or what - more like pressure form something has turned the clear coat white.

And all this in about 5 weeks. My wife (she won't drive the car anymore - her choice but probably more because of my anxiety) and I better get a handle on this or at this rate It's going to look pretty bad in a couple years!

Anyway, in my mind, I see the car as a collection of these marks and it is still driving me crazy. It's definitely a "can't see the forest for the trees" thing. They are all low and hard to see. Most wouldn't notice them at first glance. But to me, they're huge!

VTEC=happiness

Why not have someone come out and do a litle touch up action on the car?? I agree that every time somthing bad happens to teh car I lose a bit of perspective on the whole thing...every time I used to go to get into my CL-S, all it looked like was the three dings on the drivers side door. I wasn't driving a nice car, I was driving a car in the shape of three dings. Sucks.

youngmic

Sorry, hit the wrong button...

youngmic

You got it VTEC=happiness - "a car in the shape of three dings" - well said.

Actually, I'm thinking about trying to jump into learning how to do the touch up action myself. I've been looking at the info and products on http://www.paintscratch.com and http://www.langka.com. I may give it a try on one of the smaller places and see how I do. If I'm successful, I'll do them all. Otherwise, I'll just have a good touch up place do it.

Am I wasting my time? Is this something best left to professionals? Is the PR on those websites just hype? Another factor - it's SSM, so it'll be very hard to match.

Can anyone give me some average prices for top notch nick and chip repairs?

vandy786

That's exactly what my parents would say. ROFLOL.

On a more serious note, sorry to about this DesiJatt. But these things do happen. Try to get over it without worrying too much.

Norse396

I haven't noticed any noise at all, this car is close to being the most quiet car I've ever owned. Not as quiet as my Mark VIII was, but close.

youngmic

Okay, translation for us linguistically challenged folk.

vandy786

Not my language, but certainly a language I would understand if I heard someone speaking it. Here goes the translation:

"Oh, poor guy. Someone must have given your car the evil eye."

Someone who actually really knows the language, please let me know if I was right My dad is fluent in 7 languages so I guess I picked up a phrases from each when he uses them with his friends.

VC Slim

Mine falls under your #2, taking a driveway too fast. I was backing out and got a scrape under the right front bumper. Might have made it worse by pulling forward after hearing the sceeer-ape.

Think my major service intervals will include visits to the body shop.

'04 SSM/Quartz/5AT/Navi - 2 year XM subscription (saved $41).

Teh Jatt

Yes u r right 100%....

Teh Jatt

oh ya guys, I got an estimate for $1000(-/+). The shop didnt have 04TL in their system... gave me an estimate on 03TL... Mirror cost from the body shop is $180 but Dealership told me about $250.

Took few pics with my friends phone camera and will post it as soon as he emails them to me.

Teh Jatt

Kidda Jattiyee... lol PM me... how old r ya?

Teh Jatt

I'm here a JATT and we got JATTI too hehe

jattilicious

Lol! Yep we sure do..

im 23...
urself?

Turbowhat2

wow i must have slept through class the day they taught us that language in school....

jattilicious

lol...it's called punjabi =) I just said "poor guy somebody probably got jealous and cursed him...."

Teh Jatt

hey jatti i thought u suppose to PM me and tell me your name, age... and stuff....

ravi

haha i thought i was the only east indian on here...guess not

JoganJani

Hum bhi hai ji| Mujhe mat bhulo| (Me too. Do not forget me.)

Teh Jatt

east indian?..... what am I ? West Indian.... lol PUNJAB STATE, dist. JALANDAR, pind MESAMPUR (CHAMKILLA was killed here)

jattilicious

my district is moga...

Wow tons of Indians representing!

Joganjani I am going to be in the east bay in February. How's the weather still raining? I'm going to a wedding in Sac. then a reception in Fremont...

Wish I could drive there!! That would be fun..

Desijatt I love Chamkila!

JoganJani

It's not pouring but scattered showers every other day. I hope by mid Feb it will be sunny again and I can wash and put some Z6 on my NBP. Yea there are a lot of back roads to drive on in the Bay. Fun to drive here. You'll miss your TL for sure. I love to drive on 84 from Sunol to Fremont through Niles whenever I visit Fremont.