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good4whatAlesU said:
So I get a letter in the mail saying bring your car in for a recall (airbags) and I ring up and they say 'we haven't got the airbags, but bring it in anyway as there are two other recalls outstanding'. I says okay and take it in.

Car is running fine before I take it in this morning. They ring up at lunch and say "your battery is completely dead we have to replace it with a $180 battery'. You can't take it home until we do, or you have to jumpstart it.

I know I can get a battery much cheaper locally, the car was running fine this morning and every other day this year... am I being scammed?

PS. Toyota dealership.
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With the airbag recall if you have an accident in some cars there may not be any replacement airbags that is what happened to some one i know and the insurance company had to write off the car after a minor accident because of no available airbags.
 
True wynumm .. but for that I would need insurance.

Ex-rental Corolla with 150+ K's can't be worth more than a couple grand. It's not worth insuring, but certainly worth servicing to keep it reliable though.

I got bills .. I need to pay, gotta work work work every day.
 
good4whatAlesU said:
Could be the case Camo, it's just an old 2009 corolla I picked up cheap (ex-rental) when it had 50k on the clock.

Now 150+k I've got my money worth out of it as a daily runner - I'll keep it going til it carks it. Put a new battery in it about 3 years ago, might be time for a new one... Just got me surprised the one time it dies was at the dealer after it had a good warm up that morning and they just 'happened" to have a very expensive replacement on hand....

Anyway they got a few bucks out of me as I paid for a service while it was in ($100 more than my normal mechanic).

I'd service it myself but Toyota the sneaky buggers have made it so you can't remove the oil filter without a special 'Toyota tool'. FFS it's a Corolla!!

Mrs has a Honda which is a great little car, but tiny little battery which goes flat pretty quick if the internal lights left on.
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TA-DA!! And here it is!
Available at those purveyors exclusive workshop tools, Supercheap auto. Virtually identical to the special 'Ducati' oil filter removal tool. Who'd have guessed??

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Nice one.

Does that mean my corolla is "Ducati like" or Stu's Ducati is "corolla like" ..?
 
good4whatAlesU said:
Nice one.

Does that mean my corolla is "Ducati like" or Stu's Ducati is "corolla like" ..?
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Nothing Corolla like with my Duc...except the oil filter tool
 
good4whatAlesU said:
Reliability like a corolla?
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They don't call Ducatis the 'Toyotas of Bologna' for nothing. Or at all actually..

Apart from the Ohlins fork seals failing like clockwork at about 20000 ks, very, very reliable. Until you begin your own customizing. Then they become simultaneously more expensive and less reliable.
 
Due to the large amount of recalls on the corolla I may have to look at getting a Ducati for increased reliability.
 
Mardoo said:
If the seals fail like clockwork, isn't that reliable too?
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In that sense, pretty much every Ford I've owned has been extremely reliable also.
 
Actually I love bikes, had quite a few over the years.

.. Perhaps if I end up one day somewhere with a more temperate climate and less traffic. For sure I'll get another bike.

Until then "Oh what a feeling ... (your corolla has been recalled, .. again)".
 

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