This happens rather regularly in the USA. As in daily at collision center. I’m an insurance adjuster, replacing a quarter panel (ITS NOT CALLED A REAR FENDER!!!) along with the lock pillar (C-pillar on sedans) is a fairly straightforward process on many cars and every OEM has a sectioning guideline available to shops…

They will sell you parts if you’re a collision center. “Structural” parts and aluminum body panels that must be welded are only available to Tesla certified shops though. I’m insurance adjuster in an area without said shops so my Tesla customers have to travel a bit for repairs.

As an insurance adjuster, part of my job is to document unrelated damage on my estimates so that we don’t pay to fix that damage in the future since it was pre-existing. The amount of customers who have chips/small cracks in their windshields and don’t realize it is probably 75%... That said, windshields on modern…

Depends on wording of your policy. I work for a big insurer and worked at a shop prior to that. USAA has a rider on policy for for 24 months from the build date of your car (so the month it was made in, not when you bought it), all parts have to be brand new OEM. After that, anything used and aftermarket goes. Some…

My area is HEAVY military. Almost every dealership is crap. I work in insurance and mostly deal with service departments, but I’ve also purchased 5 new cars around here since 2008. Around here GM and Ford dealers are great, Honda is on par with Hyundai and just a step above Kia and Nissan. Any luxury brand is great,…

Yup, I lived like 2 hours from Skyline Drive when I had it, so a few times a year driving out there was a blast. I sold it to CarMax for only $5k less than purchase price after nearly 3 years when I moved to Chicago. Cost to park it was nearly the same as my payments and I was already on hook for parking a company car…

That was my biggest gripe with my FR-S. It was fun, but not that fun unless I was over 6000 RPM, which where I lived at wasn’t something practical to do in everyday driving.

Realistically, I don’t see this affecting most of those on this site. I think brands like Honda, Toyota, and Chevrolet will transition to a solely leased model before they do this. But BMW, MB, Audi, etc that are predominately in the lease model, this model could be beneficial some they can make every car with the…

I see taking more sales from Tesla than the big 3. $70k gets me a Sierra Denali, I think the $67,500 model is more likely to be equipped like an SLE “base” model, which can be found for $40ish.

See, the majority of buyers for these cars probably do care more about the screen resolution than the driving... My wife is a prime example, she liked how “sporty” the CR-V felt since we had a Civic, but liked the Hyundai’s lane keep and radar cruise system better and the creature comforts just mattered more since…

I wouldn’t necessarily agree. We test drove almost every small and midsize non-luxury CUV last year and were not impressed by the RAV4, at least not the ones below the Adventure trim. Toyota and Honda have both let off the gas on their vehicles lately, they know they’ll sell based on their reputation so no need to try…

I’m way more in to F1 now, but as someone who grew up a Jeff Gordon fan and off work for a Hendrick dealer, this was a pretty great race and better championship. While I understand the hate for the NASCSAR playoffs, I think the idea of the last race being winner take all is a great idea. Use the initial races to…

Once you spend some time in a full size BOF, will you see how someone can LOVE vehicles like Suburban and Expeditions? I’m a small car guy, but if money wasn’t part of the equation I’d be driving long wheelbase American SUVs. They’re just so much more comfortable, and I do feel just as confident maneuvering a lifted…

I’m somewhat ignorant to the exact outcome this is supposed to provide, but will it require OEMs to make their data available to all for free? Currently I can access most OEMs through Alldata or the OEMs technical service online, but those are $$$$. Is there anything to stop OEMs from requiring proprietary tools? Half…

I believe you’re correct. Someone also pointed out earlier this week that it may benefit GM to have those cameras for when an inevitable collision occurs. If the camera data shows the driver being inattentive or disengaging after warnings about attentiveness, it may help them with potential liability lawsuits and…

It sure looks like it, just missing one fin on the bottom, but that’s reasonable to be missing after all these years.

I think once you’re above a certain speed all you can tell is if you’re still accelerating or not. Like in a plane, once it’s off the ground I’m not sure if I’m going 300 MPH or 500 MPH, I just know I’m going fast relative to what’s around me. I can feel speed increases and decreases, but without properly calibrated…

I’ll be honest, I didn’t read/research enough to actually see if new car meant BRAND NEW or just NEW to the driver... but it would make sense to offer this like a lease, just with swappable cars. So yes, you can switch from an XC40 to an S60, but the S60 May have more miles on it. The caveat is that Volvo is supposed…

I’m pretty bummed about the lack of affordable GM fun cars after the 130R. I was driving a Cobalt when those concepts came out and my family was deeply entrenched with local GM dealers. I even worked for one of the largest Chevrolet dealers on the East coast at the time. In April of 2013 I bought s new FR-S because it…

I don’t trust them, but I do like them as an additional tool to help me drive safely. Driving is like a chess game to me, in trying to anticipate what things around me will do, so if I have cameras to help me get a better view than the mirror provides, I like that, but nothing is better than turning your head.