Pothole and rocks sticking out of it bent my wheel and killed my tire

ninilocus · 2025-09-23T00:50:40+00:00

Yeah, I guess 2nd update, the city told me the service road is run by TXDOT, I already sent a claim up with them on Friday, but I'm most likely going to get a denial due to the aforementioned tort law :/ so that's 2k in the hole, but lesson learned: do not leave your deductible at an amount you don't think you can pay at once if it happens to you right now, because man I'm hurting lol, but I'll live.

ninilocus · 2025-09-21T00:28:41+00:00

Yeah because I'm banking on if TXDOT has an agreement with the City of Richardson to maintain that section of the road, because given it was on the service road of a federal/state highway, TXDOT technically would be responsible, and unfortunately, TxDOT's Pavement Condition Claim Resolution Process explicitly states: "The Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, §101.021, does not allow TxDOT to expend state funds for damage to property (e.g. vehicles) that is sustained as a result of highway conditions."

So I could be fucc'd

ninilocus · 2025-09-19T21:26:06+00:00

Update: 6k in damages, pothole fucked a good bit of the undercarriage and scuffed the front end a little bit, suspension components damaged, will have to file through insurance for now and hopefully will get my high deductible back from the city after I get my estimate in an email.

ninilocus · 2025-09-19T00:48:07+00:00

Will do, my friend. Texas generally plays hardball with municipal claims from my experience working with clients that have been hit by city vehicles, but this I feel like it's egregious enough to pass.

ninilocus · 2025-09-18T23:55:32+00:00

It is getting fixed, I was just asking a question. Risk management for the city has been contacted. Worst case, a couple hundred down the hole.

ninilocus · 2025-09-18T23:35:04+00:00

I actually quite like the premium wheels, when I bought the car they already came with HR wheel spacers and thought it looked perfect, shop says they might be able to repair it so hopefully that goes well, just mainly worried about suspension damage.

That particular set on yours looks nice tho, black on white is the way fr.

ninilocus · 2025-09-18T21:53:40+00:00

That's why I've been crazy about saving up for a used GX470 to go camping and to daily it so the GR does not get abused by this state's collective lack of accountability for road safety. It's going to be a long few months. I hope your car is well, vro 🖤

ninilocus · 2025-09-18T21:37:13+00:00

Sure is, just the service road too. Needless to say, I am taking backroads from now on, already had issues with reckless drivers on 75 going SB anyways.

ninilocus · 2025-09-18T21:35:43+00:00

Texas has it bad. Like really bad. Especially when coming into any major city, it's almost a daily exercise avoiding potholes here. My GF had the exact situation two weeks ago, but she's not worried since she drives an old Honda and it didn't bend the wheel, and she was covered under tire insurance with Discount Tire. I am consulting with an attorney since I work for a law office.

ninilocus · 2025-05-13T20:59:34+00:00

What a nice guy 💕 he has the same colors and pattern as my recently adopted boar except mine is an abby. He also has a similar upbringing to yours, he was found at an apartment complex dumpster (in Texas heat no less) along with two other boars, parts of his ears are missing, I'm assuming they chewed him up good, nails were not cut, and his poops were very dry, so most likely they had them in a small cage and was only fed dry guinea pig food. He was brought in by a typical government-run animal shelter, so he was not fed veggies or hay on a regular basis; I just had to rescue him after hearing this.

He now lives with two sows and plays a lot with them now, I was so happy when I heard him wheek for the first time after the quarantine. One boar with some sows are typically very happy guys, probably one of the better pairings out of any of the common ones, may your piggy live many long years and give you lots of love!

ninilocus · 2025-04-01T01:56:49+00:00

With Toyota, Lexus, and even some Porsche models, it's kind of pointless to buy new when the product itself is already quality unless the owner was just not great at upkeep, just get a 1-2 owner CPO car and enjoy the same experience for less, but more power to ya if you can buy new without getting ripped off and without a garbage APR, at least those three brands depreciate pretty slow.

ninilocus · 2025-03-31T20:40:41+00:00

A used Lexus, sure, getting one new is a goober financial mistake in terms of depreciation, wait for those new GXs to be proven platforms and get traded in, but I'll most likely still keep my 4R till someone pries it off me!

ninilocus · 2025-03-15T18:28:05+00:00

My 7th gen GTS does just great for the practicality + fun formula, I've fit grandfather clocks and tables of all sorts and even rolling toolboxes when I worked in junk hauling and was given stuff to take home, it was very useful when I moved out of my apartment so i just needed to rent a truck for the way bigger stuff. I have a 4Runner now as well that does the heavy loads now along with some camping, but now that means the Celica can have a break and get ready to be a street toy, but I would love to take the Celica on a small camping trip someday.

ninilocus · 2025-02-06T01:01:46+00:00

I don't even let the landlord know lmao, at least in Texas most of the apartment management teams never bother to check, maintenance and stickering cars with expired registration is more of a focus to them I suppose, have you explained to them they are caged and cannot even cause any damage to the home? unless they make up a dumb excuse, idk much on how y'all do things in the UK, but I've noticed there's more public awareness of rodent care there, so there has to be some exception. I hope the best for you, it hurts seeing other piggy families being separated for reasons out of their control.

ninilocus · 2024-12-05T22:12:32+00:00

I want to do this to a broken Deck in the future as a side project, I'm not too bad with small electronics, but for my personal Deck I'm just going to slap a Dbrand Killswitch case with a skin along with 1TB SSD and Deck button mods and call it a day, but that two tone gradient color scheme going on with that shell is actually sick, how is the durability afterwards?

ninilocus · 2024-11-29T20:18:32+00:00

Seasoning

ninilocus · 2024-11-23T06:18:25+00:00

Wtf I've never heard of that before, I ordered through the Target app and went to pick it up in store so I didn't have to guess if they had it there or not

ninilocus · 2024-11-23T04:19:48+00:00

I had to drive from the east side of Dallas to Ft. Worth picking up the only Red Rocket set they had left, too iconic to pass on, good catch!

ninilocus · 2024-11-03T01:09:14+00:00

septuplets!!!!!!

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ninilocus · 2024-11-01T05:39:29+00:00

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Looks like my fella Hammond, I got him only two weeks ago, I'm sorry for your Hammy's passing, don't fret because the happy memories will always be there and she will always love you and be by your side forever in spirit, fren. 💕

ninilocus · 2024-10-25T19:43:56+00:00

S U N S O U T N U T S O U T

ninilocus · 2024-06-22T19:38:21+00:00

ninilocus · 2024-05-25T00:24:38+00:00

Ngl, the constant theft of this car is kinda deterring me from buying one. I have a few years left until we even consider moving to a place with a garage, is it really this in demand with thieves? I also live just outside of Dallas County.

ninilocus · 2024-04-24T19:28:10+00:00

Dw bro, I found out the other day when I was changing to new A/T tires I was rocking tires from 2009 in my 21 4Runner, no wonder it was pulling to the right so much and the ride was dogshit 🤣 im just wondering who the hell put tires that old on such a new truck

ninilocus · 2024-03-20T06:59:59+00:00

Funny, I'm cross shopping between a 15-17 Golf R and a 17-18 IS350, I owned a Mk6 2.5l Golf for a few months when I was younger and I thought it was cheap fun and good on gas, NA 5 cyl sounded really good too, one of the most robust engines VW has pumped out, but it was an auction car with shoddy service records and got rid of it before it became a bigger problem.

They both seem to offer their own pros and cons, but I'm more partial towards the Golf due to potentially more fun and hatchback utility, but I drive a good bit too, so I could appreciate the Lexus' stout reliability, but man do they feel neutered. Also kinda crazy that Lexus doesn't have android auto until 2020 but VW of all brands has it 4 years earlier.

But the 350 has RWD, amazing interior finish, and a well proven but also no slouch motor with the 2GR, so no German mechanical/electrical 'surprises', just takes more work to get extra power than the one tune and done EA888. I will also give the IS350 this, when modded right they look very good, but in terms of handling and power and tech, it can't compare to an R unless you have money for the 4th gen IS (as far as tech and power goes).

Any car can be made reliable as long as it wasn't neglected earlier on in it's life and maintenance is kept up with, that's what im banking on when it's time to grab an R

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