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it's safe to assume the next one will have a snorkel instead of a straw?
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Is it truly seized or just hydrolocked? I've seen engines survive a dunk in the face of initial appearances. If it's dead... New car, engine rebuild, or engine swap?
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Oct 18, 2016 00:09
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Is this the same chassis as a fiesta? Can you swap in the 1.0 ecoboost?
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Oct 18, 2016 00:16
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Well, my insurance agent is calling the company to see if we can get something covered. If yes, then I'm having a new motor put in. If no, then I need a new car stat. In addition to commuting every day I do side work as a process server, so I need wheels. The question is, at that point, do I take the 500 I'll get in trade in at the scheister used car dealer? Or do I keep it for putting a motor in later, knowing full well that I won't be able to do ANY work on it until next summer if then. If the shop does the job, it's going to be another 1.5 mzr motor. If I do the job, what other motors fit that would let me make it breathe fire?
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Oct 18, 2016 01:29
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Well, my insurance agent is calling the company to see if we can get something covered. If yes, then I'm having a new motor put in. If no, then I need a new car stat. In addition to commuting every day I do side work as a process server, so I need wheels. The question is, at that point, do I take the 500 I'll get in trade in at the scheister used car dealer? Or do I keep it for putting a motor in later, knowing full well that I won't be able to do ANY work on it until next summer if then. If its your daily and you need a car right now, just go stock. Think about modding the car later when its a more stable situation, now isn't the time 
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Oct 18, 2016 01:33
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If you end up getting another car, keep it and put a Fiesta ST motor in it when you have the time.
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Oct 18, 2016 01:47
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Applebees Appetizer posted:If you end up getting another car, keep it and put a Fiesta ST motor in it when you have the time.
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Oct 18, 2016 01:51
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I can't even find anywhere to buy a 1.0. There's a zillion 1.5 MRZRs on eBay tho
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Oct 18, 2016 02:02
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You don't want the 1.0, you want the turbo 1.6 with 197 hp. You could also probably fit a Skyactiv in there too, and boost the mpg's big time. Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Oct 18, 2016 |
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Oct 18, 2016 02:48
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Mr. Wiggles posted:.....and she's done. Sucked water in. Seized the engine. Gonna see about anything the warranty will cover, but I'm not hopeful. Insurance covers that. If you have comp, you'll get a 0 mi engine for your deductable. Get rid of the loving cai though.
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Oct 18, 2016 02:54
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nm posted:Insurance covers that. If you have comp, you'll get a 0 mi engine for your deductable. I have comprehensive, but the Progressive guy said no dice. Am I asking the wrong question?
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Oct 18, 2016 03:01
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Mr. Wiggles posted:I have comprehensive, but the Progressive guy said no dice. Am I asking the wrong question? Sucks. You should have aimed for the redneck.
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Oct 18, 2016 03:03
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Yeah. If my agent doesn't come through in the morning, I might have to bite the bullet and just go buy another car.  There's a few high mileage 4x4s I have my eye on that will get me by for now, but it just won't be the same. XJ, Xterra, CRV, Rodeo - all of them will get me to work but none of them will give me the fizz like the 2.
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Oct 18, 2016 03:21
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Mr. Wiggles posted:I have comprehensive, but the Progressive guy said no dice. Am I asking the wrong question? I know in California it is covered. Maybe it is collision because you were dodging a car? If your car gets flooded, they pay for it, this isn't any different. You need to push back because unless Nevada is even weirder than I think, this should be covered.
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Oct 18, 2016 03:21
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Get a Forester. The LKQ near me had a 1.0 Fiesta engine for like an hour before someone else snapped it up. They do a properly brisk trade in regular-Fiesta and -Focus engine/transmission combos, especially with the dual-clutch.
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Oct 18, 2016 04:16
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Yeah sounds like you need to make a stink, comprehensive should cover it, of course they are going to try and avoid a payoff initially they always do.
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I mean it sounds like you wrecked your car into a ditch full of water, which caused catastrophic engine damage. Why would this not be covered by comprehensive insurance?
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Ok, some news. My agent got the claim reopened (progressive had closed it yesterday) and I'm getting an adjuster to the shop today to determine whether or not they'll cover things. I'm hoping this goes well. Also, they got my rental set up like they're supposed to, so I won't have to uber around town today.
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Oct 18, 2016 16:46
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I'd love to hear the Uber driver's response to being asked to take you 50 miles down a dirt road.
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everdave posted:I mean it sounds like you wrecked your car into a ditch full of water, which caused catastrophic engine damage. Why would this not be covered by comprehensive insurance? Water damage is water damage, whether or not an idiot in a truck forced you into it.
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Update! Progressive has agreed to replace the motor. I don't get a new one, but one with fewer miles than I had (the one I'm getting will have 41k on it) plus a warranty. So okay. Job might be done in 2 weeks or so, which means I can stop driving this Compass rental I'm in right now and get back into my own nice car that is fun to drive and has good gas mileage. Though, I might pick up a thousand dollar beater truck to get me through the winter, as it looks like things are going to be pretty wet and muddy this year.
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Oct 27, 2016 19:33
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Update! Wet and muddy wouldn't matter if you had a snorkel. 
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Update! Good to hear! I keep racking my brain trying to figure out my next car here soon, and I always come back to the Mazda2. I can't find anything close to it in terms of fun/economy/dependability/price. Low mileage manuals are getting super cheap, seems like nobody wants them which is fine with me 
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Oct 28, 2016 03:06
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Please tell me you are removing the cai.
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Oct 28, 2016 03:45
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After I get it back from the shop, yes, I plan on going back to stock (there's no snorkels for the car...). The new engine is minus accessories, and I don't want to pay the dealer price for new parts, so I'll be hitting the junkyard.
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Oct 28, 2016 22:18
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Supposedly the Corksport short ram intake increases mpg by quite a bit, might wanna look into that.
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Oct 28, 2016 22:31
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Flip a cold air intake upside down, punch a hole in the hood so it fits, and hey presto you've made yourself a snorkel!
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Supposedly the Corksport short ram intake increases mpg by quite a bit, might wanna look into that. I don't have data on it pre install but I do average around 7 l/100km mixed city/highway with the SRI.
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Oct 28, 2016 23:42
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 It's alive!
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Good to see. Are the wheels painted stock, or did you do that?
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Those are stock. Soon to be my snow wheels, and this spring I'll upgrade the summers to 16s.
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That seems fast - glad you got it back so quick. They really are great cars. Every time I think about getting something different I end up changing my mind after driving it. I liken them to a modern reincarnation of a MK2 Golf without the VW German Engineering "benefits". Out of curiosity did you end up getting the aluminium skid plate (prior to the water event)?
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Nov 6, 2016 02:33
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So when you spoke to insurance at first did you say some things you shouldn't? Maybe because I pay out the rear end for comp on two old cars but Progressive has always paid me just fine or gone after the people responsible. No questions. Anyways glad to see you back in business.
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Nah, I just got an idiot to start with, I think. I only ended up paying my deductible, which is only $500. So no biggie. They couldn't go after any one else in this case because I didn't have a plate number for the guy who ran me off the road and the county sheriff never showed up to do a police report. I haven't put a skidplate on it yet, and if I get another car to run for wintertime (and a new bike for summertime) then I'll just make this my fun, pavement oriented car. There's certainly enough upgrades still to do that I could keep pretty busy doing that. In the meantime, I'm looking for a Jeep or Suzuki or something to get me through the winter months.
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Nov 6, 2016 03:14
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Good to hear but Jeep or Suzuki are we in the same century here?
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What? What am I missing?
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Plot twist: you forced yourself off the road in your new winter beater in order to force yourself to acquire a winter beater.
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Mr. Wiggles posted:In the meantime, I'm looking for a Jeep or Suzuki or something to get me through the winter months. Also, depending which Jeep or Suzuki you mean, old short-wheelbase, leaf-sprung, live axle stuff is actually kind of a pig to drive on icy/snowy roads. A cheap Cherokee/Grand Cherokee or similar might be better.
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It's not the deep snow, so much, as it's the deep and sticky mud that comes from it, along with the guys and so forth that come from that. Just in the last couple of weeks when I had the compass, the road was bad enough that I could hardly make it through - the lovely trans couldn't give me the power I needed, and I bottomed out a couple of times.
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Problem solved. Picking up an xj tomorrow.
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