What kind of illegitimate male offspring of a female canine does this and runs off?

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I've had that happen...3 times. Twice overnight at my apartment complex. great thing to wake up to.
 
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I've had that happen...3 times. Twice overnight at my apartment complex. great thing to wake up to.
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Sorry to hear that. It sickens me that there are people like that who are allowed to breathe, let alone drive, in the world. Downright dishonest & reprehensible. 👎
Still, they'll have Touring Mars' explosive diarrhea and bad karma bomb to deal with! :lol:
 
Smallhorses
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Porches is plural, and no our house doesn't actually have a Porch. :p
We do keep a Porsche in the garage though! ;)
I've nothing against scrapyards, just my experience of the pick'n'pull ones round here has been that you get charged $5 to go in and look around, and then they don't have what you want anyway. They won't even tell you before you pay if they've even got the model of car in there that you're looking for! :grumpy:
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WHOA! Man, I distinctly remember going back through and spelling Porsche correctly because I noticed I spelled it wrong. I think somebody stealth-modded my post.




JOOOHHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad:
 
I skipped most of the posts, but $1300 for a fender?! I had my fender replaced on my Acura Integra because mine was dented/rusting when I purchased it and it was only $350, and with the plastic splash shield, $425. Then to paint & blend the fender, $110. So in total with plastic splash shield & paint & blend: $535. I'd get a second opinion. The body shop I took mine to did a great job and you'd never be able to tell it wasn't the original fender. By the way, I'm sorry to hear about your car, you obviously care about it like I do my car, and I'd understand completely. I was devastated when my quarter panels started rusting again after spending $1000 to have them "professionally" repaired. The car looks like it's brand new except for the quarter panel rust starting again :( I keep my car completely stock, unlike most Integras that I see on the road that are completely beat up.
 
Before I got my Jeep Wrangler, it looks like the previous owner got in a minor accident on the left front fender because on the very front, there's a big hunk of bondo that was painted over as well as the paint wasn't matched very well, of course it doesn't help that the rest of the paint was faded when they did it....but it's good enough because you can only really notice it from a few feet to the vehicle.
 
Well, I'm guessing it's the California mark-up I'm looking at here. :(
The $1300 was from a friend's place and includes a $200 knockdown on the price.
I've just been to the local Mazda dealers to see who they get their bodywork repaired with, and they also gave me a quote. $1646. :eek:
Makes $1300 look reasonable! The fender itself is only $211. The paint and materials are around $200 - $250. It's the labour charges here that are the killer. This place wants $90/hr for 10 hours, and then of course there's 8.75% "Arnie" tax on all that.
Our friends place is going to charge $78/hr which is a lot more reasonable, but definitely the repair bill for a good-as-new fix is going to top $1000 whichever way I cut it, which settles the issue of whether to claim for it or not! I guess Progressive will be getting a call from itgirlxx tonight to give them the gory details! 👍

Still it should be the BSOB that did it that pays. :mad:
 
Smallhorses
Well, I'm guessing it's the California mark-up I'm looking at here. :(
The $1300 was from a friend's place and includes a $200 knockdown on the price.
I've just been to the local Mazda dealers to see who they get their bodywork repaired with, and they also gave me a quote. $1646. :eek:
Makes $1300 look reasonable! The fender itself is only $211. The paint and materials are around $200 - $250. It's the labour charges here that are the killer. This place wants $90/hr for 10 hours, and then of course there's 8.75% "Arnie" tax on all that.
Our friends place is going to charge $78/hr which is a lot more reasonable, but definitely the repair bill for a good-as-new fix is going to top $1000 whichever way I cut it, which settles the issue of whether to claim for it or not! I guess Progressive will be getting a call from itgirlxx tonight to give them the gory details! 👍

Still it should be the BSOB that did it that pays. :mad:
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Those are some crazy prices. The honda dealer here charges 36 bucks an hour for labor.
 
Perfect Balance
Those are some crazy prices. The honda dealer here charges 36 bucks an hour for labor.
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Is that for service or bodywork? Service labour is usually about $70 - $80 per hour here too.

The shops & dealers here have to deal with crazy California real estate prices and overheads. Where you are in Virginia, the median house price is somewhere around $300,000 whereas it's over $600,000 here for an average single family home. (We didn't get much change out of $600,000 for a 987sq/ft 2 bed 2.5 bath condo! :eek:) The retail space rental costs are similarly inflated, so a shop out here has to charge more in order to cover higher rents, pay it's workers a higher wage than they'd earn in Virginia so that they can afford to live in this crazy economy, and thus prices out here seem overly inflated compared to the rest of the country. Same goes for gas, you're probably paying about $2.70 something a gallon for regular gas out in VA at the moment, whereas we're looking at around $3.30 for regular, $3.70+ for Premium.
But, it's California, it's mostly warm and sunny, and it's the price you have to pay for living here! :rolleyes: Damned sunshine tax! :lol:
 
Maybe they're overcharging because he lives in California? I heard of thier outrageous prices. Here we got alot of cheap spots that actually do a good job.

For that fender area, they only charged around 450 here, and that was on a Nissan 350Z. :eek: And I thought NYC was expensive...
 
36 bucks an hour! Hook me up with that. I'm with Smallhorses, it's a good 90$ an hour for labour here too. I paid 350$ for two new door locks. I think it was 60$ for parts, 290$ for labour.
 
Sorry to see this on here, Smallhorses. That's a clean looking little Miata you have!
 

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