Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by MisterSheep

HAHA take all of those badges and rebadge your FRS! The looks people would give it would be PRICELESS. Also if you found a badge that said sport, you could put it right behind the prius badge. Maybe people will hate on this car less thinking that it's pretty fast for a Prius Sport.

I was going to do this as a joke until I found the badges cost about $200. I am just not that much into the humour of it.

[Tectoniic]

Tell people it is a Prius Sport

[Ashikabi]

Oh... fuck it you got the money

[MisterSheep]

Originally Posted by Tectoniic

Tell people it is a Prius Sport

Did you see my earlier comment?

[MisterSheep]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I was going to do this as a joke until I found the badges cost about $200. I am just not that much into the humour of it.

eh, you only live once right? Isn't that what the kids are saying?

[Tectoniic]

Originally Posted by MisterSheep

Did you see my earlier comment?

Lol didn't read all of it....

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

Oh... fuck it you got the money

But then I can't make fun of people that throw money at useless things.
I would certainly want to keep track of how many people even noticed or questioned it though. Could have some ROI on confirmation of my theory that 99% of the people out there have no clue what car models are anyway.

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

But then I can't make fun of people that throw money at useless things.
I would certainly want to keep track of how many people even noticed or questioned it though. Could have some ROI on confirmation of my theory that 99% of the people out there have no clue what car models are anyway.

It's definitely not something you'd great about often. If you went to meets maybe but on the street how would you even know?

[MisterSheep]

Originally Posted by Tectoniic

Lol didn't read all of it....

Welp, this is your own damn fault then.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

It's definitely not something you'd great about often. If you went to meets maybe but on the street how would you even know?

I can not stop at a store or get gas without at least one person asking me what the car is and everything about it. Since I am neither shy nor introverted and am rarely in a hurry to go anyplace I usually stop and chat long enough to explain. I bet I have talked about the car to 600 or more random strangers. I would certainly know if people read the Prius badges.
I know it seems odd to some people but Scion only arrived in my city in 2013 so all versions a scarce. Also need to consider that they only bring a couple of thousand FRSs into Canada a year and most of those go to the bigger centers so many have never seen one before and have no clue at all what it is. I bet there are more of them in California then all of Canada put together. I can go months without spotting one on the streets and in a year and a half I have seen about 12 total. That is with actively looking for them!

[Nevermore]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I can not stop at a store or get gas without at least one person asking me what the car is and everything about it. Since I am neither shy nor introverted and am rarely in a hurry to go anyplace I usually stop and chat long enough to explain. I bet I have talked about the car to 600 or more random strangers. I would certainly know if people read the Prius badges.
I know it seems odd to some people but Scion only arrived in my city in 2013 so all versions a scarce. Also need to consider that they only bring a couple of thousand FRSs into Canada a year and most of those go to the bigger centers so many have never seen one before and have no clue at all what it is. I bet there are more of them in California then all of Canada put together. I can go months without spotting one on the streets and in a year and a half I have seen about 12 total. That is with actively looking for them!

Did you know more people live in California than the entire country of Canada? So, you know. You're probably right.

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I can not stop at a store or get gas without at least one person asking me what the car is and everything about it. Since I am neither shy nor introverted and am rarely in a hurry to go anyplace I usually stop and chat long enough to explain. I bet I have talked about the car to 600 or more random strangers. I would certainly know if people read the Prius badges.
I know it seems odd to some people but Scion only arrived in my city in 2013 so all versions a scarce. Also need to consider that they only bring a couple of thousand FRSs into Canada a year and most of those go to the bigger centers so many have never seen one before and have no clue at all what it is. I bet there are more of them in California then all of Canada put together. I can go months without spotting one on the streets and in a year and a half I have seen about 12 total. That is with actively looking for them!

No one asks me about it so I guess I was going off that. I see a couple a year but my town has 3000 people so my only chance is when I go to a city once every 2weeks or so

[MisterSheep]

Alright guys, finally got my car back from the dealership where I had a free oil change done. While they were there I had them check out the rattle/vibration I've been having in 5th gear. They said it's definitely not normal after another dealership already had deemed it normal. The dealership said that the rear shifter bushing looks to have been damaged during the replacement of my transmission. I can't believe that a dealership would deem something like that normal... probably trying to get rid of me after I had the trans replaced under warranty and they probably didn't want to work on it any more. I called the previous dealer and told them what this dealer had found and this first thing I got was a "oh! so did they fix it?" I said "no, they told me that it needs to be returned to the original dealer who did the work"...

Anyways dropping off my car again at the original dealer today after work to have them work on my car again... Hopefully this dealer doesn't give me attitude/shit/purposely does something to my car...

TLDR:
Trans replaced under warranty,
Shifter gets rattle/vibration in 5th gear,
brought back to dealer, dealer deemed it normal.
Took car to different dealer.
Other dealer says it's not normal and the rear shifter bushing looks damaged.
Taking back to original dealer..

[go_a_way1]

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