Ah, love... its such a fickle and fleeting thing. It's so difficult to find the right one... court her... woo her... capture her imagination... light the fire of her passion, and then stoke the inferno of her insatiable lust all night long... and then remember her name in the morning.
In long term relationships, though, you have to get past that awkward phase, and look forward to the second date. You have to pull out all the stops. You have to commit. Sometimes you even have to swipe her driver's license.
Loving a car is very similar (except you don't have to use "protection"). Once the honeymoon period is over, you start to notice the drips in your driveway and the intractible twist in the steering wheel and that the rear bumper sags. You have to get past that. You have to develop a RELATIONSHIP.
In a relationship with a car, you have to decide that for better or worse, you're going to stick by that car and keep it going. You're going to invest the time and energy necessary to do whatever it takes to make her purr. You're going to be there for her, even if it sometimes seems like she's not there for you.
... and if you can't take it anymore and you scream "F - this!" you can always have her towed away and replace her with a hot new sporty model fresh off the line.
God, I love this country...
Jon, you forgot to mention the fact that with a CAR you can send it back to the people that brought her into this world and say "HEY! Fix this crap! And give me a loaner in the mean time!"
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"I'd like to die in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car."
Ah, love... its such a fickle and fleeting thing. It's so difficult to find the right one... court her... woo her... capture her imagination... light the fire of her passion, and then stoke the inferno of her insatiable lust all night long... and then remember her name in the morning.
In long term relationships, though, you have to get past that awkward phase, and look forward to the second date. You have to pull out all the stops. You have to commit. Sometimes you even have to swipe her driver's license.
Loving a car is very similar (except you don't have to use "protection"). Once the honeymoon period is over, you start to notice the drips in your driveway and the intractible twist in the steering wheel and that the rear bumper sags. You have to get past that. You have to develop a RELATIONSHIP.
In a relationship with a car, you have to decide that for better or worse, you're going to stick by that car and keep it going. You're going to invest the time and energy necessary to do whatever it takes to make her purr. You're going to be there for her, even if it sometimes seems like she's not there for you.
... and if you can't take it anymore and you scream "F - this!" you can always have her towed away and replace her with a hot new sporty model fresh off the line.
God, I love this country...
Jon, your to much sometimes buddy Well spoken
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"Good people sleep peacefully at night safe in the knowledge that rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf" (George Orwell)
checked the spots and thought i saw a crack but it's 100% clean....just drips of muddy water in that spot that wiped away revealing clean metal.
Seems to be a spot where those dimples are very close together...may help weaken that one spot??
Well, I just finished reading 516 posts without stopping (my brain hurts)...must be a record. Happy to report no cracks/bulging. I've had OME heavy on the front and medium on the rear for about 15k miles, with Fab Four front bumper and Warn Powerplant winch, with moderate offroad use.
The most surprising thing is that with the exception of a couple lawyer bashing posts it was all CIVIL.
Bernd, I'll be taking mine in this week with JON if he ever nails down a time. I spoke with Toyota Corporate yesterday and started a case file, directed them to this site and thread and told them there had been some complaints filed with NHTSA for possible recall issues (just to get them to speed up their response.)
Todd
Keep us all posted. Thanks you've been a great help
Bernd
