Grrr....this is so messed up..., Seriously thinking about retiring my Celi for awhile Options

[CAMAricer]

I'm so freakin' mad right now!

So I'm merging onto a freeway and accelerating as usual...as soon as I hit ~50...BAM! My (carbon fiber) hood flies open and slams into my windshield! Good thing I was still in the merging lane and not yet going that fast, so I pull over to the breakdown lane quick. I get out and check wtf went wrong and low and behold, the pins to my car are cut. GDAMN HIPPIES!!! This will be the 3rd potentially fatal incident I've had in the last 3 weeks since coming up to San Francisco (check other thread on vandalism for the other two).

FFS, I'm getting pretty tired of all this crap that I have to deal with. So what if my car stands out? So what if I blast my music a little loud? WTF is with all this hating going on? ARGHHH!!!!

Luckily I always choose a low deductible on my insurance...so they'll help cover the cost to replace my windshield and hood (yeah, it got F'ed up too) and fix my roof.

But I'm beginning to think maybe I should just park my Celi in a garage for a couple of months...just until things die down a bit.

*sigh*...just a few days ago I was thinking about fixing up all the dings/dents and scratches. But what's the point in making her look perfect when the same old $#!t keeps happening...

[MaskedMan]

Oh man, I say we gotta stake out and get these guys. Seriously, It's messed up what they keep doing to your car.

[bccentaur3]

Thats messed up. You didn't if your car was tampored with when you came back to your car?

[xs94st]

jesus.

what the hell is the matter with these people? probably some dumb kids that think its soo damn funny to do this sh!t. what is the timespan that each of the events have occurred? i will seriously hold a stake out at your place and punkuups' place.

i would kick as5.

sorry this happend to ya man.

[Jaws4God]

man... glad you are ok and nothing serious happened from that.... but there is no "cursed" cars.. just stick with it

[yarik83]

my daily driver celica. about 1 month ago

driving to work.. stuck behind a corolla. 45mph on a 50 speed limit. capow my invader hood flies the eff off, broke my windshield, damaged my roof, tore up fenders, of course hood is damaged without hopes of repair. So for 1 month now I been driving that thing to work with 100 ft yellow home depot rope and I will continue do so for as long as my other celica is stuck in between shops. I feel your pain man. my hood is no longer attached to the car. every single bracket has been ripped off and mind not at the carbon fibre hood connection but metal itself and the brackets and well basically without rope my hood would not stay on the car.

I have replaced a windshield for 208 bucks but I am not going to spend money fixing other stuff since car is going up on ebay anyways as a parts car.

My only regret is that I had this hood on 2 celicas, it lasted me for ohh I duno like 4 years and then kapow just when i was going to use it for my latest and hopefully final final celica it went airborne. It was scary. Imagine me driving with blood shut eyes and peeking out of quarter inch of eyelid surface that was pried forced to stay open after a wild night the night before... and hawoosh.. all I saw was a black shade. I thought that a low flying plane was on top of me.. I noticed that hood was missing cause my windshield was no longer a solid chunk of glass. it was all covered in creaking spider nets. Fun times.. fun times.

[Insanity-74]

Have you called the police...cause that sounds pretty serious to me and obviously could have ended up with horrible results.???

[LewFX]

that sucks...do u need another cf hood?

[D-Man]

I'm with masked man, STEAKOUT! you buy the steaks and we'll come out

Really though, Put an alarm on your car, set the sensitivity to maximum, when it goes off runn out of your house with a loaded shotgun and fire 2 shots off into someone's chest.

That should scare em away

Just dont miss and fire 2 shot's of into your engine bay.... WHOA that would suck.

Really though; Alarm, (You live in CA; I think my state is the only state you can shoot someone in the parking lot...twice... and it's Okay. I HEART TEXAS!! ) But if you hear it go off, run out screaming and yelling waving a baseball bat or something. Leave a window half way down so you KNOW the'll come. And invite some hommys for a beer; So that they can rush with ya. Then when they think your a crazy-drunken Fu#k, they'll think twice about f-ing with your car

As for the hood... Sounds like you need new pins or something... Like a hoodlatch...

Get one (Junkyard - Prly 15bucks) And fiberglass it on or something...

And if you retire the celica, I wanna know about it!! (i could use some parts )

Good luck bro~

This post has been edited by D-Man: Feb 10, 2008 - 11:01 AM

[DEATH]

Spoken like a true Texan - it's true - I had a Celica vandalized twice and the cop that came to take the report asked if I owned a gun. I told him I owned two and he told me I was legal to shoot them if they are in the car and to put at least one bullet throught the window into him that way it was proof he was in the car. He also advised me not to reload

[laff09]

Spoken like a true Texan - it's true - I had a Celica vandalized twice and the cop that came to take the report asked if I owned a gun. I told him I owned two and he told me I was legal to shoot them if they are in the car and to put at least one bullet throught the window into him that way it was proof he was in the car. He also advised me not to reload

Now son, dont reload, just use a fresh gun