Do I go back?

[Mach 307]

I don’t know how you guys get off so hard trying to flame me for not doing something myself for once

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[MAGS1]

I don’t know how you guys get off so hard trying to flame me for not doing something myself for once

For real. I stopped doing my own oil changes several years ago. It’s a time and convenience thing for me. I can drop my car off in the morning, they run me home and when I’m done working for the day or at lunchtime, they come get me and I pick up my car. Plus I don’t have to worry about disposing the oil. Just because someone chooses not to do something doesn’t mean they can’t. And even if they can’t, no shame in paying someone that knows what they’re doing to do it. To each their own.

 

[Daryl333]

Whether they fixed the problem or not, why not say the name of the shop?
Myself, if I lived around there I would want to know the name of the shop that could do this kind of damage by a simple Strut Brace installation.
If you did mention the name my apologies, I had to skip all the bitching posts.

 

[Mach 307]

Whether they fixed the problem or not, why not say the name of the shop?
Myself, if I lived around there I would want to know the name of the shop that could do this kind of damage by a simple Strut Brace installation.
If you did mention the name my apologies, I had to skip all the bitching posts.

I haven’t said it yet no worries brother, it is Batavia Body Werx. As I said they did great with my wing but not so great with the brace. Also as young at heart said know thyself and I’ve decided to bust my ass to pay this car off this year and grab a 24 or 25, since I know this will always bother me.

 

[Daryl333]

I haven’t said it yet no worries brother, it is Batavia Body Werx. As I said they did great with my wing but not so great with the brace. Also as young at heart said know thyself and I’ve decided to bust my ass to pay this car off this year and grab a 24 or 25, since I know this will always bother me.

I hear you I've been staring at two minute little dents in my roof for two years. Lol
No one else can even see them but I DO every damned time I get in the thing. The dents are on side rail (support?) and wouldn't be an easy fix.

 

[GrabberBargeCaptain]

My wife dented my rear quarter panel opening her car door on the 2nd day of ownership. In her defense my last car was a miata and she wasn't used to a bigger car in the garage alongside hers. I paid a guy 125 to remove the dent. I got over it pretty quick. You can too if you just clay bar and touch up paint that area. That's nothing. Annoying sure, but what a nothingburger. It's a car and no matter what it's going to get scratched, dented, windshield cracks, black plastic trim fade, bird shit etchings and UV damage. You can do your best by maintaining the finishes, parking far away from people and trees, but as they say in sports, Father Time always wins.

 

[Mach 307]

If you look closely, I noticed they messed up both studs that the brace attaches too as well. I took the car to Ford to see if they could replace said studs, they said they are not replaceable, and it would be about 5k in work to replace the entire area. Is this true? Obviously it’s cosmetic but it truly does bother me. That’s really what made my mind up.

 

[GrabberBargeCaptain]

I dont follow, re: the studs?

 

[ice445]

If you look closely, I noticed they messed up both studs that the brace attaches too as well. I took the car to Ford to see if they could replace said studs, they said they are not replaceable, and it would be about 5k in work to replace the entire area. Is this true? Obviously it’s cosmetic but it truly does bother me. That’s really what made my mind up.

They're mostly correct, those studs are just spot welded onto the underside of the shock tower, so it would be a big pain to replace them, the correct way at least. From experience doing my base model as well, the paint on them will get stripped off when they put the top lock nut on it, so it's whatever really.

 

[young at heart]

If you look closely, I noticed they messed up both studs that the brace attaches too as well. I took the car to Ford to see if they could replace said studs, they said they are not replaceable, and it would be about 5k in work to replace the entire area. Is this true? Obviously it’s cosmetic but it truly does bother me. That’s really what made my mind up.

Alec, I’ve already said this earlier in this thread but I’ll say it again: trade that thing before your drooling becomes permanent. You can’t put a price on mental health. Saying you can get used to it is just whistling past the graveyard. Obviously you cannot.

And yes, I‘m serious. No need to ask me how I know!

 

[Mach 307]

Alec, I’ve already said this earlier in this thread but I’ll say it again: trade that thing before your drooling becomes permanent. You can’t put a price on mental health. Saying you can get used to it is just whistling past the graveyard. Obviously you cannot.

And yes, I‘m serious. No need to ask me how I know!

You are right and I plan on it. Honestly my plan is pay the car off, pay my student loans off and finish my masters off by May 2025. That way I’ll have the whole trade in value to put towards a 25 I will order.

 

[Mach 307]

They're mostly correct, those studs are just spot welded onto the underside of the shock tower, so it would be a big pain to replace them, the correct way at least. From experience doing my base model as well, the paint on them will get stripped off when they put the top lock nut on it, so it's whatever really.

I’m confused then because the shop mentioned also they snapped one of them originally on install, no clue how… and replaced one of them.

 

[GrabberBargeCaptain]

Oh, yikes. That sucks. I was pretty careful when I installed mine, figured those studs would snap like a candy cane.

 

[Mach 307]

Oh, yikes. That sucks. I was pretty careful when I installed mine, figured those studs would snap like a candy cane.

I just don’t even know how they managed to do it, it kinda blows my mind they were that careless. As I mentioned with the news it’s unfixable I really am left with no options other than trade when I pay it off.

 

[DadzMach]

I don’t disagree with you in principle but the reality is that short of stripping down much of the underhood compartment and starting from scratch it’s never going to look or be factory again. It just won’t. And if it did, whatever product they used wouldn’t age like factory stuff.

I sympathize with you. It would make me crazy too. In fact, if it were me I’d probably have it touched up professionally then trade the car. I’m really not kidding; back in the mid-2000s I traded a nearly new truck over a door nick. I realize this isn’t normal behavior but there’s a lot to be said for knowing thyself.

I’ve done the same. Had a really nice Audi RS5 and a motorcycle next to me pulled the bike up and his foot peg put a small bit deep ding. The car was perfect and fully covered in PPF and ceramic coat. It would have cost a fortune to fix properly and then putting PPF over non factory paint, isn’t good.
I traded it in, even though I loved the car. It just drove me crazy to see it.

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