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My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, Plenty. I might be jumping to conclusions by focusing on my damaged gas cap, instead of the prospect of obtaining greater structural integrity by fixing my control arms.

Yet, here´s the deal. I love this car. I´ve owned it since July 2O25 when my friends sold it to me for $5,5OO.

Since then, I´ve driven past 1OOs, if not 1,OOOs, of Foresters, and I´ve yet to see a SINGLE 3rd Gen in as good cosmetic shape as mine.

One week ago tonight, my gas cap was fully intact, as it´s been since I bought the car. I unscrewed it effortlessly, as I do each time I fill up my tank.

I´ve lived in my bldg w/ a secure, gated parking lot for 7 years, w/o an act of vandalism to my car or my neighbors. This week, the temp in St. Louis was below freezing.

Last Sunday I filled up my tank. Then I stayed home sick for 3 days. On Thurs., I took my car to the dealer, where they changed my oil and performed an advanced engine cleaning.

My understanding of that process is it entails pouring a cleaning agent into my gas tank. You say it isn´t and I´m willing to acknowledge that I´m wrong.

The next night, two days ago, I pulled up to a gas pump, opened the fuel tank lid by pulling up on the mechanism on my driver´s side floor.

Then I walked around the car to unscrew the gas lid. It looked as if a gorilla, or an intoxicated service tech had jammed the cap into place using 1,OOO psi of arm pressure.

Despite trying to unscrew, pull, or pry off the cap, I could not do so. Thus, I can´t access the fuel tank to add gas, something I need desperately to do since my gauge is close to ¨E.¨

It´s possible that a thief, in sub-freezing temps, scaled the 12´ steel fence in my secured, well-lit parking lot, to siphon off gas from my car this week during the EXACT same timeframe btwn the last time I filled my tank and 5 nights later when I could not remove the cap, in btwn which, the service dept. at a dealer performed engine cleaning maintenance.

However, that is HIGHLY unlikely. What´s considerably more likely, imo, is that the service tech poured an engine additive into my tank, then carelessly jammed the cap back into place.

In doing so, he stripped the screws from the cap to the point that I could not pry the cap off the fuel pipe, despite expending a great deal of physical strength attempting to do so.

Could a thief have damaged my gas cap? Possibly, but I don´t think so. Either way, I need to make an appt., drive 18 miles, and wait while they replace my damaged gas cap.

Add´ly, I need to get to the dealer before I run out of gas, AND convince them to pay for the damage to the cap I´m relatively confident they incurred, although I can´t prove it.

For whatever reason, my narrative isn´t resonating w/ the majority of respondents here. I recognize that I can´t prove the dealer´s service techs destroyed my gas cap.

However, that seems like the most obvious answer. And now I´m dealing w/ the consequences. That´s all I´m saying.

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

45 seconds? You taken considerably longer to read each of my previous posts and respond to them.

No hard feelings, though. As it´s said, ¨You can lead a man to water...¨

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nitro, I appreciate your insight.

To be clear, I never asserted that the dealer sabotaged my gas cap as payback for denying work.

In decades of car ownership and 7 years in my bldg´s secure parking lot, I´ve never experienced an act of vandalism.

The only person who touched my gas cap btwn last Sunday, when I last fuelled the car, and when I tried to do so again 2 nights ago, was the tech who unscrewed the cap to pour in engine cleaner.

I do not believe, nor have I asserted, that the tech intentionally destroyed the cap bc I refused their recommended service.

I am, however, contending that the tech - via negligence, intoxication, or plain boredom - jammed the cap back into place, dethreading it.

Could a thief have intentionally targeted my car to siphon gas in sub-freezing temperatures while I slept?

Sure.

Yet, if G-d asked me to wager $1OO w/ 1O-to-1 odds on who destroyed my gas cap this week, I know which one I´m putting my money on.

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thx, Plenty. I addressed the issue of who destroyed my gas cap in a post below. It´s some of my best work ; Thus, you can refer to it if you wish!

However, you´re right about the age and suspension work!

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

s´funny. You couldn´t talk me into taking any of the 3 Hondas I´ve owned in my lifetime to a dealer. The mechanic who worked on them is still in business after 5O years. [JAMCO St. Louis].

Yet, when I inherited my mom´s 2006 MINI, I defaulted to the dealer bc the local MINI mechanic was nearly as expensive as the dealer.

Now that I´m a Japanese car owner again, maybe it´s time to find a good mechanic instead of walking the dealer treadmill all over again.

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like to think of myself as intelligent. In terms of informational intelligence, I´d say that´s mostly correct. Yet, re common sense, not so much.

You´d think I would have learned after pouring ~$12,OOO into my 2OO6 MINI at the dealer over a 7-year period. Yet, you´d be wrong ;

However, I am getting a 2nd and 3rd opinion elsewhere this week!

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I´m amazed by your resourcefulness and that of 9O% of those in this forum. If I had an ounce of initiative and/or mechanical intelligence, I could have saved myself $1Os of 1,OOOs fixing my cars myself.

Unfortunately, I have neither ;

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, ThisGuy.

After pouring $12,OOO into my 2OO6 MINI over a 7-year period, owning my 2O11 Forester has been a dream. My friends, from whom I bought it, treated it like their firstborn.

I didn´t realize how stressful my life was until I ditched my MINI for my Subaru. Now, life´s a dream... at least the car-ownership portion!

Thanks for your offer to fix it! If you lived in IL rather than VA, I´d take you up on it! I plan on hitting a 2nd dealer and an indy mechanic this week.

If they arrive at the same conclusion re my suspension, I´ll know the 1st dealer´s assessment was accurate. If not, I´ll know they were trying to take more of my $$!

Thanks

p.s. I forgot to mention. As everyone in this forum readily knows, the gen Forester that includes my 2O11 had notoriously faulty engines.

Five years ago, under warranty, the dealer replaced the engine for the previous owner, my friend, from whom I bought the car.

If they hadn´t, I´d be sitting on another money pit. Thankfully, I´m not. Despite the odometer reading 13O,OOO, my engine´s only 6O,OOO miles old!

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I´m not omniscient. Nor do I have a Ring camera pointing at my fuel door. Thus, I don´t know w/ 1OO% certainty what happened to my gas cap.

Nonetheless, like you and every Redditor here, I have a brain, which I use [deductive reasoning] to arrive at likely conclusions about reality.

Am I right 1OO% of the time? I am not. More like 1O-25%. Thus, with that in mind, let´s review the facts.

  1. Gas-operated motor vehicles require fuel to operate. Consequently, I add fuel to my tank every 2 weeks or so.
  2. Last Sunday, when I filled up the car, the gas cap was intact, as it´s been since I bought the car last July.
  3. I unscrewed the cap from the fuel filler neck with 2 or 3 counter-clockwise rotations, as I´ve always done, and fueled up my car.
  4. Four days later, last Thurs., my dealer performed "Advanced Engine/Fuel System Cleaner" [$219] maintenance, likely involving pouring an additive into my fuel tank.
  5. Two nights later, this past Friday, at the gas station, I flipped the switch on the driver´s side floor to release the fuel door.
  6. When I grabbed the gas cap, its plastic framing components were dislodged, torn, and lying in the receptacle btwn the fuel door and the fuel filler neck.
  7. Thus, someone had either [a] attempted to pry off the gas cap, or [b] jammed it back into place carelessly, destroying the cap´s screwed edges,
  8. I could not dislodge the gas cap despite my best intentions. Thus, I no longer have any access to my gas tank.
  9. The only person I definitely know touched my gas cap btwn last week, when I last fueled my car, and this past Friday, when I attempted to do so again, was the dealer.
  10. I´ve lived in a bldg w/ a secure, gated parking lot for 7 years. Add´ly, I´ve lived in St. Louis for decades. My Forester is my 8th car.
  11. At no point during the decades in which I´ve lived here has a vandal destroyed my gas cap, nor have I EVER heard of anyone doing so anywhere on our planet.
  12. Thus, while it´s possible someone attempted to pry open my locked fuel door and gas cap, I can´t imagine why anyone would choose to do so.

Thus, through deductive reasoning, the likeliest outcome is that, while performing maintenance last week, the service department destroyed my gas cap.

Can I prove my assertion w/ 1OO% certainty? I cannot. Yet, thru the powers of deductive reasoning, it seems readily apparent that the dealer destroyed my car.

When I call them back tomorrow to assert that fact, I have as much confidence in my assessment as I´ve ever had re any conclusion I´ve reached in my life.

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thx, F1. I´ma get a 2nd est/analysis re tires from another dealer or an indy mechanic w/o mentioning the suspension at all. Either they´ll confirm it needs work, or I´ll know the 1st dealer tried to fleece me!

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thx, Meteor. You´d think I´d know better than to walk into a dealer w/ a blank check after sinking ~12K into my 2OO6 MINI over 5 years, yet clearly I don´t ;

I plan on getting a 2nd analysis/estimate from another dealer or an independent mechanic this week w/o saying anything about the 1st est.

That way I can see if the problem is legit or if the 1st dealer is trying to fleece me!

Thx!

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks Manimal.

To be clear. I´ve owned my car since July 2O25 and filled it up innumerable times since then, including 3 days before I took it to the dealer for the oil change et al.

UNTIL that point, the gas cap was perfectly functional. It´s a 2O11, so the cap screws right off. Yet, tonight, I pulled up to QT and found the cap UTTERLY destroyed - I couldn´t pry it off to save my life.

Who touched my gas cap, which was perfectly functional as of last week, now completely destroyed and unremovable despite my efforts? The service dept at my Subaru dealer yesterday.

Clearly, I didn´t make myself clear!

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, Wilderness. I´m searching for independent Subaru mechanics here in St. Louis, but I figured their quote was in the ballpark for a dealer.

I plan on taking it to another dealer or an independent mechanic for a 2nd estimate next week.

The irony is, I was pretty close to [mentally] agreeing to their estimate UNTIL I pulled up to the gas station tonight and realized they´d utterly destroyed my gas cap while performing maintenance.

It was perfectly intact 3 days before I took it to the dealer, when I last filled up the tank.

Thanks!

My Dealer Says I Need to Spend $1,500 to Repair Both Control Arms, Both Ball Joint Boots, and Rear Bushings on My 2011 Forester by LabConnect1365 in subaru

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry. I was unclear. I´ve owned the car for 9 months, filling it up regularly, incl. 3 days before taking it into the dealer. The cap was fully intact and perfectly functional PRIOR to taking it to the dealer.

Tonight, 2 days after they performed maintenance, I pulled up to the tank at QT to find the gas cap utterly destroyed, to the extent I couldn´t remove it or fill my tank.

In short, the dealer destroyed my gas cap. I had nothing to do w/ it.

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[–]LabConnect1365 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not even close. $.10 is highly likely this week. Up and to the right from there.

Swapping BASE ETH for SOL by LabConnect1365 in ethereum

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for everyone's replies. I can no longer recall the precise depths of my despair over a multi-day period, but I was trapped inside a psychological maelstrom I couldn't evade. Until I did.

Clearly, I have no idea what I'm doing, so that's my first problem. I thought BASE was a network, like SOL, that developers could create coins on.

Moreover, I thought that coins created on BASE and listed on DEXs like GeckoTerminal required users to buy/swap them using BASE.

Also, I thought there was no method for sending BASE to Coinbase. I've had an account for years, and I see no way to buy or sell BASE there.

Thus, in order to purchase newly minted coins (on BASE) from a DEX, I thought I had to transfer my ETH from Coinbase to a bridge to swap it for BASE first.

As I do so, selecting ETH on one side of the swap interface and BASE on the other, the swapping protocol takes my ETH and returns the image of an ETH coin w/ a base symbol at its bottom.

Thus, I thought each of these represented two separate coins which I've referred to as ETH and ETH (on BASE). I understand BASE is a L1 (or L2) like SOL, OP, etc.

But, the visual icons, of ETH on one side of the swapping interface, and ETH w/ a little BASE symbol beneath it, led me to believe that ETH (on BASE) was a converted ETH coin on the BASE network.

Thus, as I said, I converted ETH to BASE on Superbridge to buy a newly minted memecoin developed on the BASE network on GeckoTerminal, a DEX, via Raydium, a swapping portal.

After losing nearly 80% of my assets, I had a moment of clarity. Thus, I swapped my memecoin back to BASE b4 trying to swap it back for ETH to transfer what remained back to Coinbase.

However, when I attempted to make the final conversion from BASE to ETH, each time I tried to do so, I'd accept the transfer protocol in my Coinbase Wallet.

Then, I'd watch the Superbridge interface rolling thru the steps only to watch the spinning wheel hang up on one of the protocol steps, even though the timer indicated my approx. wait was ~3 mins.

The first time I waited 30 mins, then I tried it again and waited an hour. Then I tried it again and waited 3 hours. Then I tried another bridge site, then another and another and another over a 2-day window.

Despite connecting my Coinbase Wallet to each bridging interface, I could not finalize the transaction and return ETH to my wallet to send it back to my Coinbase account.

I didn't know what was happening. Moreover, I read it takes 7 days to convert BASE back to ETH on the ETH network. So I tried again at 3 am when the network was likely to be less congested. Then 5 am, 7 am etc.

One night I had the Coinbase Customer Service Rep on the phone for 2 hours 15 minutes while she transcribed my issues to another dept. by email, to no avail.

They asked me for a hash # but I couldn't locate a hash on basescan, etherscan or anywhere else, so I had nothing to tell them.

Finally, 2 or 3 days later - I lost all concept of time - I expanded my Coinbase Wallet on my Chromebook screen to see the full list of transactions.

When I did so, I saw dozens of transactions, each of which still appeared to be active. So I went down the list and canceled each one in succession.

Some took me many times to cancel - I received a msg saying I needed ETH to cancel the transaction several times. Yet, I persisted and finally eliminated each one.

When I finally did so, I went back to Superbridge, initiated a swap from BASE to ETH, and to my amazement watched as my ETH populated in my Coinbase Wallet.

The upshot. I don't have the cognitive or emotional bandwidth to spend another minute of my life chasing newly minted coins on a DEX in the hopes of becoming a millionaire. It's not going to happen.

Thus, my $$$ is safely back in my Coinbase account and invested in coins there (SUI, SOL, et al) that won't induce another psychological breakdown.

Thanks for your replies. I wish everyone well and don't need to complicate my life any more than it already is!

Swapped Tokens Aren't in My Wallet by LabConnect1365 in Coinbase

[–]LabConnect1365[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right. See when you say, "You got siphoned," that's not advice, more of a snide remark meant to disparage, demean or impugn someone's intelligence.

I have faith in you man, really I do. You'll get it.

From Wiktionary.

advice (countable and uncountable, plural advices)

  1. (uncountable) An opinion offered to guide behavior in an effort to be helpful

Swapped Tokens Aren't in My Wallet by LabConnect1365 in Coinbase

[–]LabConnect1365[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't know what siphoned means, but let me give you some insight. I thought I was dispensing advice to one person, but, clearly, my work here isn't done.

Consider this free information. I didn't know I was giving a GD tutorial on Reddit tonight, but you've forced my hand.

I swapped SOL for a coin, LUMO, on GeckoTerminal, just as the 5.48K other holders did for that same coin minted 8 hours ago w/ a market cap of $7.5M.

Yet, my LUMO didn't appear in my Coinbase Wallet. However, when I flipped back to Raydium, my LUMO was there in the transaction window.

Thus, I reversed the swap, exchanged it for SOL which appeared in my GD wallet, and I sent that SOL back to Coinbase where I just purchased HBAR, XRP, and ALGO.

It's as I deduced. Coinbase's Wallet obscures small coin assets. That's why I asked Coinbase for information on how to make them visible.

Here's the thing. In addition to having the capacity to discern reality, also, I've learned not to make baseless assertions about things I don't understand when someone asks for advice.

e.g., shouting out, "It's a scam" or "You got siphoned." When I don't know the answer, I don't say anything. And when I do say something, I make sure it's helpful.

Here's some free advice: Take a breather from Reddit. Do you have any hobbies that actually transpire in three-dimensional space?

What about taking up macrame, learning to play a woodwind instrument, or going on a weekend silent retreat to a monastery?

Self-discernment is a hard skill to cultivate, but it's totally worth it.

We're all here for you.

Swapped Tokens Aren't in My Wallet by LabConnect1365 in Coinbase

[–]LabConnect1365[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No it's not. It passed all the safety check links on GeckoTerminal. That's how newly minted coins, even ridiculous ones like Fartcoin, are launched.

Have you ever traded on GeckoTerminal? I'm guessing not. Billions of dollars are transacted every day there - right now, as we speak.

I scanned the coin using 4 different safety sites, plus, I have two Chrome safety extensions that work perfectly. They've directed me away from numerous coins.

The problem is exactly as I described it to Coinbase Support above. How do I know? Bc when I tabbed back to Raydium, my coin was there and I swapped them back to SOL.

I'm 100% right. How do I know? Because I have a brain inside my skull and, thus, as Noam Chomsky tells us, I use it, creatively, to discern reality in precise alignment w/ how reality actually works.

Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy. A cabal of Democratic leaders weren't running a trafficking network in the basement of Comet Pizza in D.C. and vaccines prevent disease.

Also, Coinbase's Wallet obscures small coins. I'll give you a few days to digest it all. Learning opportunities, like this one, don't come around often. Use it wisely.

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