dazygirl415

Ouch! But he did make it home o-kay, right?

And if ya'll didn't know, Khalua (sp) in hot chocolate is very delicious.

Slims8

Damn, I have got to find a was to get to a liquor store Its bad with the 8 is the best vehicle I have for this weather.

dazygirl415

If the 8 is your best vehicle, you are in trouble. I could walk to the closest liquor store, but it would be a LONG walk.

NYT-OWL

Actually I had to drive home yesterday after work and again this morning in the 8 and it didn't do too bad. I think actually have a low amount of torque helps.

Slims8

I agree with the torque issue. That is what makes the stang so bad. I couldn't even pull it into my garage last night, but the 8 drove right up. If I added about 200 lbs to the ranger's bed it wouldn't be too bad, it just as no weight. So far I have been fairly pleased with the 8s performance. I'm sure getting more meat in the rear end helped.

Ajax

I just ignored first gear for 2 days.. but either way, I still havent been to work.. lol.. working from home today.. and amazingly, i'm more productive here than I am at the office.

Coop '04

F'in freezing cold cracked my windshield yesterday on the way home from work.

Slims8

Ouch... that sucks man. Mine is still cracked. The lowest I've seen is $480 for a wind shield.

Coop '04

pm'd you Slim

dazygirl415

I think I replaced mine for $430 ish.

Ajax

i replaced mine for free-ish

dazygirl415

Yeah, you went to the dealership and got it covered. There was no way mine could have been blamed on Mazda.

Coop '04

this one is 430-ish. he misquoted the price yesterday by alot... DAMMIT
How did you work that out Jon? What did you say?

liqiud

Jon just has crazy skills. :P I'm sorry to hear about your windshield.

Ajax

430 was the original quote I got too.
I just talked to Michael at town north.. It really was weird when mine happenned. It had been cold and the first day it got warm, blam it cracked.
They did find a point of impact but because I always go to town north for service, the service manager said they'd cover it.

Coop '04

I wonder if that would work for me...I may go by there. Mine was the same deal, but no impact, started from the right edge....

Ajax

If there's no impact, they can probably cover it.. they covered mine anyway.

Coop '04

That's great they said they would without impact, I didn't see any impact. It was there, a VERY small chip about 1/16 from the edge of the glass... It was so far over it was in the black area where the sealant is underneath the glass. That made my day.

Ajax

Awesome. Those guys are always willing to help.

I found the other day why too.. You can call me an idiot if you already knew this but I didn't realize that the service people are on comission based on the amount of business they bring in so their business is entirely repeat customers. Whether mazda pays them or we do, the more work they do, the more money they make so they're very accommodating as long as you keep coming back. I didn't really mind paying for my 30k service since i had gotten a free windshield... free brakes... and a few other things free as well as a lot of good service.

Coop '04

I guess the way I wrote that was misleading, they found the impact, I hadn't seen it. So no free windshield for me....


They were cool about it though. They have been great with everything else too.

Coop '04

Found a place for $365, getting it done today.

dazygirl415

Wow - great deal!!

Coop '04

Sadly that is a great deal. It was funny how many places said 165 or 185 before looking it up and realizing it was way more.

liqiud

heh...to bad you couldn't hold them to the 165 or 185 price. Good luck.

alnielsen

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I don't know how you could blame the cold on the cracked windshield. We aren't having any problems up here.