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Retired old Gearhead reacted to a post in a topic:
2013 1LT - Complete Mechanical Failure
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Correct. Or at least, that would be the case if I'd actually signed the I-351s and given over the title. I've not, and as such the case is still open. From reading all these replies, it's looking more and more like this won't be worth pursuing much longer. The rental is starting to cost us quite a bit, and it's not a very nice car at that. I thought the Spark had bad AC, but this Charger is about as weak and honestly feels more underpowered than the Spark did (and this is a 292hp V6). I know it's going to be difficult to prove anything. I've just yet to hear anything about the chip data, t
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nullcoding@gmail.com reacted to a post in a topic:
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USAA paid me because my car was insured by them, and it stopped working and was damaged beyond repair as a result. It wouldn't make sense for the other peoples' insurance to pay me. If nobody was coming the other direction, I may not have crashed at all. Riddle me this, then. If all this damage came from hitting the other vehicles (in between which I bounced off the rocky embankment), then why did I lose control in the first place? Something went very, very wrong. I am not a reckless driver. Add to that the fact I know this road very well and always drive the speed limit (as it's a curvy, twi
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Retired old Gearhead reacted to a post in a topic:
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An independent mechanic took a look and said the left front ball joint had uncoupled. That would certainly explain why the wheels are pointing in different directions and why I lost control of the vehicle. It felt like I'd lost power steering, but more likely I just couldn't steer because the ball joint wasn't doing its job. There's no reason for that to happen on a car not even two years old. None. Never hit a giant pothole, never crashed, hit anything, whatever. Shoddy build quality? I don't know. I need to hear more from other Spark owners. I can't find much about Spark / Matiz ball join
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What makes you say this was my fault? I've been saying consistently that it is not. Ordinarily that would be meaningless, but the responding officer said as much (I should have been wired lol) and USAA has not used the word "fault" at all since the tenth when this occurred. Nobody's out to get me. Perhaps I didn't make that clear. There were no injuries and thus nothing over which anybody could sue me. I firmly maintain the collision occurred as a result of complete mechanical failure on the car's part. not driver error. I have a perfectly clean driving record - as in, not so much as a sp
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"It sounds like to me the $1700 was what was left over after the payoff of the car" That is correct. The vehicle itself was valued (as salvage titled) at $11.870,78. I was making very small payments because I'm not in the best financial situation right now. Well, that's an understatement. I'm unemployed. -.- It sucks. I cleaned it out yesterday and asked about the data chip thing. They said it'll be investigated at the salvage yard, to which I plan on going anyway. I took about two hundred photos, inside and out, including several videos. Mostly sentimental - this was my first car and I now
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Retired old Gearhead reacted to a post in a topic:
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No. I have always been very gentle with this car. It was fully stopped at the time.
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Thank you for your input. I appreciate it! USAA was very generous (as they are wont to be) with their estimate of the car's value. Even in its present condition, they put it just about $1K under the TrailBlazer they totaled last month, and that was still technically completely driveable!! That said, I still had payments on the car. Quite a lot, as it turns out lol. I'm gonna end up with a cheque for around USD 1700, which isn't terrible, but that'll be my money and the loan will be paid off and all. Whatever. I accept this is reality and s*** happens to those who least deserve it. I don't
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nullcoding@gmail.com reacted to a post in a topic:
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Chip? First I've heard of that...! I have to go to body shop TODAY and clean it out, take the plates, etc. Gonna take plenty of photos too. It's my first car and I'm going to miss it terribly. So many good memories. BUT. If they're taking it to the salvage yard tomorrow, as my claims adjuster has arranged, how do I go about getting this "chip" examined? I can ask the guys at the shop but they're likely fairly busy. As your tagline says, my Spark is indeed broken, but I maintain that I'm not at fault. Nobody's said I am, either (phew). In my official recorded statement to USAA, I made it
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I have owned (and quite enjoyed) my 2013 Spark (1LT auto) for the last year and a half. Since driving it off the lot, I'd had no major problems whatsoever. Granted, I don't do as much driving as most here - it currently sits at 18179 lifetime miles - but now, that number's not going any higher. On the 10th of this month, I was involved in a three-car collision on a twisty road (around a relatively blind curve). I should mention this is a road I've driven countless times for many years. I know the roads around here very, very well, and of course I was going the speed limit as that's plenty fas
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Loving those LED strips in the headlamp housing! I've been meaning to do that for a while now and haven't had much luck finding decent strips that will fit and work properly. -
oil consumption - program code 14110 - pcv valve
nullcoding@gmail.com replied to Greg_E's topic in Recalls & TSBs
I suppose I'd have more mileage if I did regular local driving in addition to all the highway stuff. 13743 right now. Guess that's a lot for somebody currently without a job to which to drive. Took them close to three hours to replace the PCV valve and all that, apparently because "re-learning the idle didn't take the first time - software glitch." Being from an IT background (and as a programmer), that didn't bother me too much. Not sure if it's just confirmation bias or what, but it does seem to be shifting more smoothly from 1-2 and 2-3, which previously were kinda rough, and it's handling -
oil consumption - program code 14110 - pcv valve
nullcoding@gmail.com replied to Greg_E's topic in Recalls & TSBs
Thanks for the replies! Appreciate the peace of mind. I made an appointment for 8:10AM tomorrow so I'll have it taken care of before I've got to drive anywhere else. Seeing the posts where people say they've got 30 or 40 thousand miles on a 2013 Spark makes me think that maybe I don't do that much driving after all! -
oil consumption - program code 14110 - pcv valve
nullcoding@gmail.com replied to Greg_E's topic in Recalls & TSBs
I've got about 13800 miles on my 2013 1LT auto right now, and I'm about 300 miles from home. Most of those are highway miles, and it's totally stable at around 70mph. I do have difficulty with acceleration sometimes, but I'm also really, really gentle on the car and try to stay below 3000RPM whenever possible. When in for annual inspection at end of August, they told me it didn't need oil and that confused me, seeing as I'd done another 7500 miles since the first oil change in March...and I'd just checked it myself and found only a little bit on the dipstick. I made them change the oil and fil -
I noticed this too. I couldn't tell what I was listening to, though that's partially on me for not being able to recognize songs by their sound. The way iPods group/alphabetise music, anything in non-ANSI (that is, Unicode) appears at the bottom of the list with numeric characters, meaning I can't tell which artist is Japanese and which is Taiwanese. >.< It's an Asian car with an American computer system. Likely the OS run by the MyLink has no/limited Unicode support. =/