What have you done to your car today?

Your entitled to keep the wreck without buying it, Scrap value of the car is 400-500 bucks if your just going to sell it to a steel yard.

I'd call your own insurer and see what they value the car at it'll probably be 30% higher than being a third party you could be looking at a $1500 difference. Your rating shouldnt be effected and you shouldnt need to pay an excess if you know his details.


Was going to start repainting the front half of the roof on blinky. but its too dam cold :(
 
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neither of us are third party both full compensation. he paid his excess today so that things could move forward. my insurer just said the car is market value. so will find out what that it once the assess it.

if i dont have to pay fr the car i will be keeping for a bush pig for shore!:lildevil::monkeydance:

today i did some very pleasurable skids/drifts/handbrakies in mums very wet and boggy paddock. good way to end the day :rotfl:
 
If you going through your mates insurance that means from the insurers perspective your a third party. Read anything they want you to sign fully, your entitled legaly to the salvage rights of your car and settlement payment of the way your going about claiming damages. If you go through your insurance policy your giving up your right to the car for a total loss payment. oh and remember to cancel your comp policy and get a little extra cash back. Squeeze all the cash were you can, after working for the mungrels for so long i like to make them sweat cash

Back on topic though, I've now got all the paint and supplies to fix all the chipped and cracked paint on my cars roof, depending on the weather tomorrow i'll have a go at some body / paint work. Now just waiting on the outer tie rods, and a 12v gauge (i'll take some photos and write up a diy for adding the gauge)
 
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Gravel_Rocks said:
I ordered 4 GR-2s but got 4 Excel-Gs, would've been nice to get some explanation! But I'm thinkin' they're the same specs, not 100% sure tho.
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Alright, here is the scoop straight from KYB. The GR-2 name has only been used in the US and Canada (I've wondered about this seeing the KYB's referred too here as Excel-G's), they are currently changing over the GR-2 name to Excel-G so's we match the rest of the world. The ONLY difference between the two is name and color, so Gravel, you got the right struts, I just happened to get one of each for the front (the rears I got are Excel-Gs). I could raise a stink and get another black one, but I think I'll just stick with what I have. Might add hundreds of $$$ value to the car as they are no longer made.:iconwink:
 
Got some metal cut for me in the factory at work (I'm in the IT dept', so others did it for me :raz:) for my weekend project...

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https://www.subaruforester.org/vbulletin/f85/how-sf-lamps-behind-grille-89478/

That will lighten the load on my not-really-made-for-offroad aluminium lightbar so only the fogs will be on the bar. Should help reduce vibration offroad (or more generally on all of Quebec's crappy roads :P )
 
Started to touch up the paint chips on blinky's roof, turns out the problem is bigger than it looked

After a little sanding:https://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/341/o3ly.jpg

A little more sanding: https://imageshack.us/a/img835/6296/epym.jpg

Right now i've primed the metal and sanded it back top find the section of paint thats damaged is about the size of a dinner plate before the paint stopped chipping away from the undercoat.

For now i'm going to leave it primed, wait for the warmer weather later in the year and respray the entire roof, as there is more of these chips all over it. Maybe I'll plasti dip the car matt white hehe
 
Gidday IDW

That looks awfully like the problem I had with Roo1 ('93 Impreza).

The bloody paint was de-laminating from the primer/rust proofing coat. This only started to happen after the car was around 17 y.o.!!!

I asked our panel beater, Charley, if he had ever seen this happen before. He hadn't. He reckoned that if the paint was going to de-laminate, it would usually occur in the first 6-18 months - not 17 years down the track.

He resprayed the bonnet, roof and pillars after he cut the rust out from around the windscreen. The paint there had been damaged about 8-10 years before when the w/s was replaced.

The day before I took it up for the hand over when traded in on Roo2, I washed it, and a hand-sized piece of paint came off the d/s front guard! Fortunately the car yard wasn't concerned about that, but I could envisage that the entire top coat was going to progressively come off the car. A total re-spray would have cost around $2-3 grand, so glad to see the back of it!

Why I mention this is that it wasn't just the horizontal surfaces where this was occurring, but also the vertical surfaces ...

IF Roo1 had been a Forester, I wouldn't have minded paying for the re-spray. Loved my Impreza, but not as much as Roo2 ... :ebiggrin: :cool:
 
Blinky is 16 years old now, I've seen one other subaru with what looked like the same problem same colour as well. I've got some time next week to see a panel beater and see what it'll cost to have them do just the roof. by the looks of all the other little chips the entire surface is comming off
 
Drove it ...

Had to go to the shops.

Not exactly warm, or enticing, here ATM. Got to about 11.5° max, with drizzle all day. Nice to see the rain, but a cold miserable day nonetheless. Even the cats stayed in their (heated) bed almost all day.

I'm thinking of making a bar like our SH has for locating the D/S floor mat for my SG. Basically a strip from the bolt on the cross member under the front of the seat; then a cross strip with a stud pointing upwards at each end. The studs go through the holes in the floor mat and keep it in the right position, and straight. Mine gets a bit wobbly, usually at inconvenient times. Catches on the clutch pedal on the upstroke.
 
yesterday i did my timming belt water pump all pullies thermostat hoses radator flushed coolant . last week new carrer berring and u joints and a new stage 2 clutch . also 4 new tires . lots and lots of work with a broke left arm . lol sure hope it gets me through the summer lol cause i plan to visit all kinds of places .......
 
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ericstell sounds like you've had a fun filled action packed day in the workshop! How many kms has your car travelled?

Regards,
 
Minus 3.5 deg C (25.7 deg F) this morning. Scraped the ice off the windscreen and side windows and drove to the station.

Nearly got hypothermia sitting in the train :eek:
 
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ericstell sounds like you've had a fun filled action packed day in the workshop! How many kms has your car travelled?

Regards,
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my car has about 250tho on the clock .hopefuly it all holds out till next year till i have the extra money.to install a 2.5l with a d range tranny.and maby turbo set up . have to see how my arm heals and get back to work :raz:
 
Gidday Eric

That's a hell of a lot in one day, specially with a broken left arm ...

Sure as heck a lot more than I could manage (even when I was still able to do this sort of stuff), specially since I'm ambidextrous, so use both hands pretty much equally ...

Well done, mate :biggrin:.
 
hard work for sure

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Gidday Eric

That's a hell of a lot in one day, specially with a broken left arm ...

Sure as heck a lot more than I could manage (even when I was still able to do this sort of stuff), specially since I'm ambidextrous, so use both hands pretty much equally ...

Well done, mate :biggrin:.
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thanks it was tough but had to be done to go camping in two days . it wasnt too bad seems how i work on cars for a living .and i also have all my air tools to do the hard work :rotfl: .
 
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