Goodbye FR-S
Usually don't share stories like this but figured people might get a kick out of this.
So last Friday 5/16/2014, I took my wife out for dinner for her birthday with two of her friends. For those of you who live in NYC, we went to eat at Picnic Garden in Flushing Queens. Those of you who live in NYC might also remember that it rained that night, really really really hard. Literally my wipers were on maximum speed and it wasn't fast enough to clear the view.
Anyway after dinner, I made the idiot decision to drive instead of waiting the storm out (which would have been just another 15-20 minutes). Instead I jump in the car and drive one of my wife's friends home to Woodside Queens. on 65th Place and I believe 85th Avenue? That was my first time in that area and I am completely unfamiliar. Parked the car and it was still raining, but now it started getting even heavier. I ran inside her house to take a leak, and decided to wait it out inside for a bit. Then about 5 minutes later, I went outside and began noticing the street was flooding. Apparently a man hole cover was pulled open, and water was gysering out of the man hole. I quickly ran to my car and started it up, (which I probably shouldn't have), got a few feet, and the engine stalled. Electronics still worked but the engine wouldn't crank back up. Big SUVs kept speeding past me splashing waves of water and drowning me even further. Water never reached the interior however, which I guess for me was a good thing. But after about 10 minutes sitting in a big river, the FDNY showed up and pulled up more manhole covers to drain the street that had become a river. Finally the floor was dry, I got out, intake was wet, air filter was wet, water got into the throttle body, when cranking it would spit water, so I cam to the conclusion okay, cars done.
My wife stayed over at her friends house and I wasn't able to get a tow back to Brooklyn, until 3AM. Got back to Brooklyn at 5AM and left the car outside Bay Ridge Toyota. The tow guy told me he had 6 flooded cars that night.
Anyway now my insurance has taken over and the shop is running diagnostics and other things. It's either they total it and I get the reimbursement, or they attempt to fix it. Quite frankly I rather they total it right now, and I can pick up another one, or a 15' WRX.
Funny thing is when I went into the dealership earlier today to ask about the monogram series, they all looked at me like they had no idea what I was talking about, simply because none of them even knew what the monogram series was. SMH.
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