Just going to make left turn and Skewered by a Steel post!
02-16-19, 09:50 PM
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Just going to make left turn and Skewered by a Steel post!
So, my wife was driving the GX 460 the other day, and she moved into a turn lane that was short and traffic rushing behind/beside her, and there was a steel marker post that was bent out into the lane that she couldn't avoid.
It of course scratched the side of the front bumper, the lower front door below the trim panel, and then speared into the rear door below the trim panel, basically ripping into the side of the car like the mean-looking hubcaps from the movie Grease.
My wife steered away as quickly as she could, but the rear bumper also has a huge gouge/scratch in it as she got the GX off the post.
This happened on a Colorado Department of Transportation road, so we are hoping they will pay to fix the damages, but that is a long and hard road that we have just began.
After she got done being upset(crying pretty hard) about her nice car being screwed up by the hazardly bent steel post sticking out into the lane, she assessed the damage and found that the post had pierced her entire door skin on the outside and all the way through the door panel on the inside as well as the speaker.
Needless to say, we are now fighting to get the damages and deductible cost paid.
Last edited by Gxxr; 02-16-19 at 10:02 PM.
02-17-19, 02:45 AM
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Yikes!!! Glad she wasn't harmed or injured!!! That had the potential to go completely through the door if it damaged the speaker as well.
02-17-19, 07:54 AM
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Glad your wife is O.K.. That thing would have sank the Titanic if it gouged it..
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02-17-19, 12:57 PM
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Haha, well, she is OK, and not an ox, so that is good...
I know she is just mad at herself and the hazard for being there.... there wasn’t much she could do to avoid it and not cause an accident with another car.
Thanks for the support, it is just frustrating to try and have something nice in this state. The roads and the weather are really rough on nice cars.
I know she is just mad at herself and the hazard for being there.... there wasn’t much she could do to avoid it and not cause an accident with another car.
Thanks for the support, it is just frustrating to try and have something nice in this state. The roads and the weather are really rough on nice cars.
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02-17-19, 03:17 PM
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For those with auto body repair knowledge or background will they end up replacing the door with a used one and repainting?
02-17-19, 08:30 PM
#10
Racer
Unless you want to replace the whole door, body shop can take the door off and the inside panel, knock out the metal and probably weld a piece of metal from inside to patch the hole. Then bondo and repaint. It may not
eve need to repain the whole door as they can tape at the moulding area.
eve need to repain the whole door as they can tape at the moulding area.
02-17-19, 09:54 PM
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From what body shops we have visited so far and got quotes for, they are both replacing the door with a complete new one, as the internal structure of the door was damaged on the outside, inside the door, and on the inner part of the door next to the door trim panel....
Surprisingly, a brand new door from Lexus/Toyota is only $575 empty, but the door trim panel is double that!
We need to get a few more quotes to see who we will go with for the repairs, and then choose from the best rated shop....
Surprisingly, a brand new door from Lexus/Toyota is only $575 empty, but the door trim panel is double that!
We need to get a few more quotes to see who we will go with for the repairs, and then choose from the best rated shop....
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Acrad (02-18-19)
04-03-19, 08:36 PM
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So.... We just got the GX460 back from the body shop after 1 month of wait time. The paint job looks awesome.... We had a high deductible ($1500), and I wanted the entire front and rear bumpers fixed for scratches and marks while they were off, and to have the whole bumpers repainted so we didn't have a mismatch or a line where they might not be able to feather the metal flake in to my satisfaction.
We had to pay for the difference for that extra paint work and having the side marker lamp lens on the mirror replaced that had a minor crack.
I did find in the paperwork from the body shop, and they had an ASTECH report on the car. It talked about a zero point calibration to the seat, but it didn't mention anything else.
The only problem we are having now is that the headlights won't go off after a long delay (waited 10 minutes) after shutting the car off and getting out to go in the house. This is with the control stalk turned to AUTO.
I went into setup/vehicle/lightning tonight, and set the headlights to "OFF" after vehicle was turned off, so, no delay.
The lights continued to stay on, turning the car on and off, even though all the settings had the ext. lights to be off still set.
Anybody have any ideas?
We had to pay for the difference for that extra paint work and having the side marker lamp lens on the mirror replaced that had a minor crack.
I did find in the paperwork from the body shop, and they had an ASTECH report on the car. It talked about a zero point calibration to the seat, but it didn't mention anything else.
The only problem we are having now is that the headlights won't go off after a long delay (waited 10 minutes) after shutting the car off and getting out to go in the house. This is with the control stalk turned to AUTO.
I went into setup/vehicle/lightning tonight, and set the headlights to "OFF" after vehicle was turned off, so, no delay.
The lights continued to stay on, turning the car on and off, even though all the settings had the ext. lights to be off still set.
Anybody have any ideas?
04-03-19, 09:29 PM
#13
Racer
Do they turn off if you turn them on and press Lock on the remote twice?
Do they also turn off automatically after you locked the car when at ON
Do they also turn off automatically after you locked the car when at ON
04-04-19, 07:24 AM
#15
Try the previous post methods to see if light control ECU is in proper working condition. One thing to keep in mind, the light control ECU is inside left front fender close to the front door hinge area. If during the body repair, when everything were off, it is possible if something, such as connecting harness got loose, etc. If you have the Techstream, you can also do a scan to see if light control ECU returns any error code.
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