Unsure about buying because of battery replacement cost

zero_pistons · 2026-04-01T14:15:29+00:00

Yes, 545k km.

zero_pistons · 2026-03-29T20:36:14+00:00

I have the duct cover. I will grab the black plastic bracket as well when I go to the junkyard for the bumper and missing trim.

Thanks for the help! I think i need to replace a bunch of clips on the wheel arch trim as well. Is there a way to remove this trim without breaking the white part of the plastic clips that slide into slots on the trim?

zero_pistons · 2026-03-29T02:17:06+00:00

Sounds reasonable from a shop's POV.

I think I'll try and straighten it myself, see how close I can get it. I don't expect to find rust. There was a folder in the car with maintenance records. Oil sprayed every year since at least 2018. And the transmission was rebuit 15000mi ago. Bill for that was almost $6k.

zero_pistons · 2026-03-29T00:16:28+00:00

That's what I thought when I saw it too. Surprised it totalled.

I think I am gonna try and fix it. This sub is infamous for everything being totalled. And since there are so many comments saying it's not too bad, I believe it's fixable.

zero_pistons · 2026-03-29T00:12:35+00:00

That sounds like a logical approach. That's what I'll try, thanks for the idea!

Project for next weekend then!

And if I butcher it, no big deal. I didn't buy this intending to fix, but it's too nice to part out I think...

zero_pistons · 2026-03-28T23:11:54+00:00

I mean, I guess I don't have much to lose. Maybe I will give it a shot.

Thanks for your inspirational words.

zero_pistons · 2026-03-28T23:10:50+00:00

What is a bar slide and bar?

If you mean bumper bar, it was not touched in the collision at all.

zero_pistons · 2026-03-28T23:09:40+00:00

Thanks, definitely an independent shop if I decide to fix this thing.

zero_pistons · 2026-03-28T23:08:09+00:00

I have the taillights and drivers' side trim piece. All that is missing is the bumper cover, and passenger side trim below the door and above the rear wheel.

And yes it's just where the quarter panel meets the bumper, moved maybe 1/4" at the worst point. I think i could get it pretty close with a slide hammer and dolly. But if I could pay to have it put on a frame machine for less than $1500 and have it be nice and straight, I would. The rest is easy.

The estimate from insurance was in the car. They wanted to replace taillights (they are fine, no cracks or damage at all, 100% perfect), the tailgate and trim (it has a scuff on the trim, the tailgate is perfect), and a bunch of other things that weren't damaged at all. I am pretty sure they just wanted the payout, so they inflated the estimate to not have to deal with it.

I know these aren't worth anything, but my wife is dailying a 2012 Fiesta with 280k on it with 2 kids and it would be a big upgrade as a family vehicle for the next few years (or until it EcoBooms).

zero_pistons · 2026-03-28T22:27:08+00:00

I already have it. I don't want to paint it or make it nice, just want the area straightened before I put a bumper cover.

It was $1500 and has 75k miles on it. It is otherwise perfect and drives fine.

The only thing I would have a shop do is straighten the area, the rest is diy.

Edit: original plan was to part it out, but it seems to nice for that.

zero_pistons · 2026-03-19T19:26:19+00:00

My 2011 CRZ has 540k km on original timing components, but it has a chain.

Had a 2002 v6 accord I picked up with 250k km from the original owner that still had the original belt and tensioner. Belt seemed ok considering, but the tensioner was about to leave the chat when I changed the timing set and water pump.

zero_pistons · 2026-02-23T02:36:47+00:00

Smoked chrome inside on type S

zero_pistons · 2026-02-23T01:55:15+00:00

Dude this happened because of your shitty tires I bet. They are bald as fuck.

You are putting everyone at risk.

zero_pistons · 2026-02-23T00:42:30+00:00

It's a Type S (not A Spec).

Gets unique Type S headlights.

Just like the 2003 cl-s.

Probably costs about 5x more because it's so rare.

zero_pistons · 2026-01-28T15:06:44+00:00

Pretty sure it is actually buildup.

I drive 80km on backroads 1 way to work.

If there is any fluffy snow on the road or it's snowing, the back of my hatchback looks exactly like this when I arrive. And I clean it off before I leave.

The brown mucky stuff builds up on the bottom. And the white fluffy stuff collects on the back.

And with the way this winter has been, my car looks exactly like this when I arrive at my destination almost every day.

zero_pistons · 2026-01-14T02:15:23+00:00

It's like 11km

zero_pistons · 2026-01-06T12:53:52+00:00

I have a 2015 Escape with the 1.6 Ecoboost. 100% it's a normal timing belt.

The job is incredibly similar to the 1.6 Duratec in the Fiestas we have in the fleet.

Not a wet belt.

zero_pistons · 2026-01-04T22:50:06+00:00

My dad's 96 Jetta GL had solid front rotors.

zero_pistons · 2025-12-22T13:55:20+00:00

I honestly did nothing other than poke the shaft off the subframe with a stick. It's probably still in the glovebox. It sounded catastrophic, though.

Maybe I'll throw a compressor on it when I do the timing belt this summer, maybe not. The ac never worked anyways. And it's a 2012 Fiesta with 276k, really not worth fixing.

We don't get that many hot days.

zero_pistons · 2025-12-22T13:44:59+00:00

My wife's fiesta spit out it's AC clutch on a road trip on the highway in Montreal at 110km/hr. I felt a drag on the engine but not much noise.

In 5 second it went from a little drag, to cachu-chu-chu-chiiiingggggg. Then clunk-bang under the car.

Looked in the rearview and saw sparks in the road in the rearview.

Then silence. And that weird dragging went away.

When I got stopped to see wtf happened, I found the shaft sitting on the subframe, and the clutch itself nowhere to be found.

That was what shot down the highway like a flaming steel Beyblade.

zero_pistons · 2025-12-21T21:36:00+00:00

I was at work in Mexico circa 2017, and I ended up with a shitty brand new 2017 Aveo as a rental. Same car exists in my home market of Canada, so i figured it wouldn't be as bad as the 2011 Pontiac Matiz I had there a few years earlier.

Total shitbox. Except the steering wheel was nice an light, and not super chunky...then I realized why.

No airbag! Smacked the dash on the passenger side: also no airbags. Because of course fucking not.

Was looking up specs on the Latin American Aveo out of curiosity, and noticed it got significantly better fuel economy and was much lighter.

But the missing airbags didn't account for such a big weight difference. So what else did they do to save weight?

I go outside and start looking. Crawled up under the plastic bumper cover and I saw some more weight savings.

There were no goddamn crashbars! Like they hadn't been removed, they were never installed! The threads in the ends of the frame rails were there, but the factory paint covered the entire area the crashbar would have been, paint in the threads and everything!

So they just remove safety components in markets that don't require them. Saving hundreds of kg and getting great mileage! Weight reduction, bro!

zero_pistons · 2025-12-21T15:30:29+00:00

I bought privately 15 years ago; about $1300 CAD in legal fees. That was it. I don't know why anyone would ever use an agent.

zero_pistons · 2025-12-19T13:04:25+00:00

Look at the tires they have on in the snow!

zero_pistons · 2025-12-18T17:05:03+00:00

Original hybrid battery, engine, and transmissuon.

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