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Post by Woody Williams on May 28, 2021 9:35:32 GMT -5
I pulled a dumb trick.. We almost always drive Momma's Prius wherever we go. 50 MPG versus the 4Runners 19 MPG.. My wife has MS and uses a walker to get around so we pack that around in the trunk of the Prius. The wheels were really getting the trunk carpet dirty so I bought a liner for the trunk. I backed the Prius out of the garage to clean the carpet before installing the liner. The carpet was wet so I thought I would let it dry before installing the liner. So I pulled the Prius back in the garage.. SCRAAAPPPPPE! I have had the hatch up before in the garage so I thought it would clear driving in. It didn't. The garage door popped my spoiler off. I took it to Kenny Kent's Toyota and they wanted $548 to install a new spoiler. Ouch!A good friend, and my Sunday School teacher, is a member of a British Car Club and he owns a shop in Boonville where they work on cars. He said he thought we could repair it. So I did a search on YouTube on Prius broken off spoilers and came up with this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=trJrhd090rsNothing to lose so we tried. Yep, it worked and I saved $548. I wasn't 100% sold on the melting the clip/bolt into the plastic block so I used a little smear of High Cotton's favorite stuff - JB Weld. That youtube link had another link that showed me how to take off and reinstall the hatch interior trim. Got to love YouTube... . |
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Post by esshup on May 28, 2021 9:52:17 GMT -5
You fared better than a friend of mine. He tried to drive his Kubota RTV1100 into the garage. Only thing this particular garage has a garage door that is a foot lower than the other garage. Add another zero to your repair bill and that is what it took to fix the Kubota and the garage door is still badly boogered up.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on May 28, 2021 10:07:43 GMT -5
Fixed many things by watching YouTube videos. It has saved me tons of money.
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Post by jjas on May 28, 2021 11:55:16 GMT -5
Fixed many things by watching YouTube videos. It has saved me tons of money. Same here. I've also run into a few things that looked way beyond my skill level, but at least I had a clue as to what it would take to have it repaired. |
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Post by treetop on May 28, 2021 12:14:46 GMT -5
You fared better than a friend of mine. He tried to drive his Kubota RTV1100 into the garage. Only thing this particular garage has a garage door that is a foot lower than the other garage. Add another zero to your repair bill and that is what it took to fix the Kubota and the garage door is still badly boogered up. My brother up in front of me had his garage door opener quit so he went and got another unfortunately it didn’t open the door as far as the other one did his van just fit in by a inch or two he backed his work van in and caught the door with the ladder rack ripping the door off the track and landing on top his van the door still has a slight bow and dent in it. We worked like fools to get a 18 x 8 door hung back up with rope to the track so we could get the van out . Another time I jumped in my truck hit the door opener like always when I remembered I had left the bills I wanted to mail jumped out got them out of the house jumped back in the truck guess what I did next hit the opener again like always the door started to come down and I started backing out put a big bend in the lower panel and a nice scrape on the top edge of the cab that one cost me about 1500 bucks to replace one panel and have the trucked fix |
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Post by Ahawkeye on May 28, 2021 12:33:43 GMT -5
I use JB weld from time to time. Sometimes it holds sometimes it doesn't. Hope yours lasts 30 years!
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Post by esshup on May 28, 2021 12:36:26 GMT -5
You fared better than a friend of mine. He tried to drive his Kubota RTV1100 into the garage. Only thing this particular garage has a garage door that is a foot lower than the other garage. Add another zero to your repair bill and that is what it took to fix the Kubota and the garage door is still badly boogered up. My brother up in front of me had his garage door opener quit so he went and got another unfortunately it didn’t open the door as far as the other one did his van just fit in by a inch or two he backed his work van in and caught the door with the ladder rack ripping the door off the track and landing on top his van the door still has a slight bow and dent in it. We worked like fools to get a 18 x 8 door hung back up with rope to the track so we could get the van out . Another time I jumped in my truck hit the door opener like always when I remembered I had left the bills I wanted to mail jumped out got them out of the house jumped back in the truck guess what I did next hit the opener again like always the door started to come down and I started backing out put a big bend in the lower panel and a nice scrape on the top edge of the cab that one cost me about 1500 bucks to replace one panel and have the trucked fix He blew the windshield out in a bazillion pieces, bent the cab, did other damage to the Kubota and bent the bottom 3 panels on the door. I have no idea how fast he was going and wondered how he was going to get stopped in time once he was "in" the garage. I had to bring the trailer over and we took it to the Kubota dealer in Valpo. He hit the header and slid under it, whacking the garage door. I had to let the air our of the tires to get it back out - it was wedged in there pretty good! |
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Post by Woody Williams on May 28, 2021 13:23:16 GMT -5
I'm somewhat glad to see that I'm not the only big dummy when it comes to vehicles and garage doors.  |
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Post by Ahawkeye on May 28, 2021 13:28:12 GMT -5
My brother up in front of me had his garage door opener quit so he went and got another unfortunately it didn’t open the door as far as the other one did his van just fit in by a inch or two he backed his work van in and caught the door with the ladder rack ripping the door off the track and landing on top his van the door still has a slight bow and dent in it. We worked like fools to get a 18 x 8 door hung back up with rope to the track so we could get the van out . Another time I jumped in my truck hit the door opener like always when I remembered I had left the bills I wanted to mail jumped out got them out of the house jumped back in the truck guess what I did next hit the opener again like always the door started to come down and I started backing out put a big bend in the lower panel and a nice scrape on the top edge of the cab that one cost me about 1500 bucks to replace one panel and have the trucked fix He blew the windshield out in a bazillion pieces, bent the cab, did other damage to the Kubota and bent the bottom 3 panels on the door. I have no idea how fast he was going and wondered how he was going to get stopped in time once he was "in" the garage. I had to bring the trailer over and we took it to the Kubota dealer in Valpo. He hit the header and slid under it, whacking the garage door. I had to let the air our of the tires to get it back out - it was wedged in there pretty good! Wow that is a heck of a story, reminds me of the stories a guy who used to pst here alot had. I may be wrong but I think he passed away his handle was Timex. |
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Post by greghopper on May 28, 2021 14:13:54 GMT -5
He blew the windshield out in a bazillion pieces, bent the cab, did other damage to the Kubota and bent the bottom 3 panels on the door. I have no idea how fast he was going and wondered how he was going to get stopped in time once he was "in" the garage. I had to bring the trailer over and we took it to the Kubota dealer in Valpo. He hit the header and slid under it, whacking the garage door. I had to let the air our of the tires to get it back out - it was wedged in there pretty good! Wow that is a heck of a story, reminds me of the stories a guy who used to pst here alot had. I may be wrong but I think he passed away his handle was Timex. Yeah.... remember the bulldozer story he told? Loading it then it flipped over off the trailer! Had to been a wild ride for sure. |
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Post by Ahawkeye on May 28, 2021 14:35:12 GMT -5
Wow that is a heck of a story, reminds me of the stories a guy who used to pst here alot had. I may be wrong but I think he passed away his handle was Timex. Yeah.... remember the bulldozer story he told? Loading it then it flipped over off the trailer! Had to been a wild ride for sure. Yes that's the one I'm talking about! |
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Post by HighCotton on May 28, 2021 15:19:47 GMT -5
I pulled a dumb trick.. We almost always drive Momma's Prius wherever we go. 50 MPG versus the 4Runners 19 MPG.. My wife has MS and uses a walker to get around so we pack that around in the trunk of the Prius. The wheels were really getting the trunk carpet dirty so I bought a liner for the trunk. I backed the Prius out of the garage to clean the carpet before installing the liner. The carpet was wet so I thought I would let it dry before installing the liner. So I pulled the Prius back in the garage.. SCRAAAPPPPPE! I have had the hatch up before in the garage so I thought it would clear driving in. It didn't. The garage door popped my spoiler off. I took it to Kenny Kent's Toyota and they wanted $548 to install a new spoiler. Ouch!A good friend, and my Sunday School teacher, is a member of a British Car Club and he owns a shop in Boonville where they work on cars. He said he thought we could repair it. So I did a search on YouTube on Prius broken off spoilers and came up with this... www.youtube.com/watch?v=trJrhd090rsNothing to lose so we tried. Yep, it worked and I saved $548. I wasn't 100% sold on the melting the clip/bolt into the plastic block so I used a little smear of High Cotton's favorite stuff - JB Weld. That youtube link had another link that showed me how to take off and reinstall the hatch interior trim. Got to love YouTube... . Absolutley! Yeah buddy! That's a good YouTube! I'll have to remember that one! |
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Post by whitetaildave24 on May 28, 2021 17:53:38 GMT -5
Funny thing, one of our kids friends just dropped something down a wall in our camper behind a set of three drawers. Never had to take the drawers out before, so right to YouTube I went before someone broke something. A one minute video and we were good to go. Chalk another one up.
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Post by parson on May 29, 2021 12:27:33 GMT -5
YOUTUBE has enabled me, like many others, to tackle, and accomplish, projects and repairs that I would never have attempted otherwise.
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Post by Pinoc on May 29, 2021 14:17:44 GMT -5
Was on a fishing trip at Lake Guntersville one year and the window regulator broke in my truck and the window wouldn’t go back up. We were headed back home the next day. First thing I said to my son was get on YouTube and find out how to get this door panel off so I can get the window back up. Minutes later he had the right video and we were back in business. No way I would have gotten that off without breaking something.
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