My biggest complaint is that it seems to be a jinxed car. I got it new in July 2021, and it's going in this week for its third trip to the body shop. All three times are not my fault . The left rear corner was vandalized in a parking lot, that same place got scraped up by a camper that didn't know how to drive in a parking lot, and now the front right is all smashed in because a neighbor backed out of her driveway right in front of me. I just got it back from the body shop for the camper scrape last November and now here I go again. And she acted angry at me like it was my fault I hit her. The officer set her straight on that. I'm just hoping three times is a charm and no more body shop hassles for me. . . . . 😐 Icing on the cake, her insurance company has her VIN and the plate number on file, but they can't find an active policy. 🙄 I'm going ahead with $500 deductible and my insurance and hopefully her to come through and pay everything but I gotta get things fixed and I don't wanna waste time.
I’m sorry to hear about your Venza misfortunes, I can relate to one of your “hits”, I had 1,500 miles on my ‘21, when my next door neighbor, an old fart that has dubious visual acuity, backed out of his driveway in a 2011 RAV4 right into my drivers door. His insurance was a PITA to deal with and the only Toyota authorized Autobody shop in my area, was going to touch my car, not what his crap insurance was attempting to dictate to me. It took some serious vehement telephone conversation that I was adamant about how the repairs were to be done, no rework, Bondo BS, just a R & R with a New door and lower plastic trim and the Ruby flare pearl paint applied by a Autobody shop that does high end show car painting. They did not disappoint either. The shipment of the first replacement door was received by the body shop damaged and sourcing another was a problem during the plandemic as none was immediately showing up on the computer. Two weeks later I was called that a new door was located and did arrive intact, six days later my Venza was like new again, and detailed like it rolled off the assembly line.
Not a speck of dust anywhere to be found.
When the 3rd year is up, if I decide to keep it, I’ll be bringing it back to have them touch up those stone chips all over the vehicle from the sh*tty roads before they repaved. The asphalt grinding/removal machines and subsequent vacuuming don’t pick up everything so the net result during morning rush, I’m hearing the rocks banging all over the car, top to bottom. It was a $#!T show, only in NY ! 🤬
It’s really sad how bad our local government is, allowing the infrastructure to degrade to such a dismal degree, pothole city, looong fissures on the hwy and patches on patches for the entire frigging road. OMG.
If I could only sue the state for their corrupt negligence in how our tax monies were “spent” ahem, cough, cough- likely pocketed by unelected officials at the DOT. 😣
