I bought a new car (the "I wanna be like Gugs" thread)...

[Krilons Resa]

TURKEY damage

 

[dorian gray]

Pics pending

 

[dorian gray]

Couldn't get a good pic. Fucker dented the fender, broke the mirror, knocked out a puddle light and then flew off into outer space for all I know. I never saw it come back down, thats for sure. Mirror and puddle light will be > $100. I'm not fixing the fender; it would be somewhere closer to $1000. Forget it.

 

[Krilons Resa]

I mean...Sorry, dude!

Walked out of a dealership today.

 

[dorian gray]

haha what happened at the dealer?

 

[MFJ]

Turkeys are no fucking joke. Did I ever post that picture of the deer damage to my Jetta?

edit: can't easily rotate it on this file uploading website, but you get the idea. fucking thing was jumping over a stone wall which was parallel to the road. hit my car in mid air, i did not even have a CHANCE to avoid it. fuck nature sometimes

edit again: you can't see it, but it pushed a bunch of the headlight assembly into the engine belts and also destroyed the windshield fluid reservoir. welcome to the world of PLASTIC

 

[dorian gray]

Jeeze. How much was the repair??

 

[MFJ]

Jeeze. How much was the repair??

it was like $5000 worth of damage, but I only had to pay a $500 deductible. they had it for like 3 weeks though, bogus.

 

[NAD]

More proof that birds are only good as a food supply. Stupid destructive thunder lizard ancestors. But, I'm still laughing at the concept of space turkeys!

 

[MFJ]

well, I'm heading into the dealership battleground tomorrow at 1PM. wish me luck, hopefully i can end up with another new piece of shit VW so i don't have to throw a ton of money into the (inevitably) imminent failures of a 50k+ Volkswagen. most of the new Golf/Jetta models come standard with a 1.8 Turbo, so that could be pretty fun. These cars fucking rule when you get them, but they usually just don't last. My dad is good friends with the sales manager at this place and has seriously probably leased or purchased 10 different models over the last 15 years. He keeps trading them in for a newer model because of how great they feel for the first 30k or so, but he simply won't keep them after that.

 

[NAD]

I have fun at dealers because it's the only time I act like an asshole during a business transaction.

They encourage that shit by making you haggle, so I just join in with their horrible, horrible game!

 

[Krilons Resa]

VW are nothing but trouble.

 

[rms]

Mine dodges flying deer all the time though

 

[Reign in Acai]

I'm sitting on a 20k ar loan with next to nil interest, but don't fucking know what damn car I want. Anything newer than 10 yrs lacks any sort of personality.


Every new car reminds me of this.

I just want some reliability and somewhere to take a nice nap in during my lunch break.

 

[NAD]

Reliable? Vintage? Personality? Napping? Here ya go.

 

[dorian gray]

Perfect

 

[Reign in Acai]

How much HP on the camode?

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

Here, let me pick for you. May or may not come with a bedpan, but it does have a tape deck.

http://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/detail/633772390/overview/

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

I was gonna find you a good Pontiac Aztec so you could Walter White your way around town, but there's only one for sale within a hundred miles of you.

 

[NAD]

There are no Azteks in Los Angeles because clearly those cars are lifelong KEEPERS.

I'll bet there's some weird cult with them, probably the same people that drink TAB.