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Picked Up An 09 Lightning Strike Xr6T :)


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Helping my bro move tomorrow, but till try and get around to doing a sound clip, both in car and out.

Also should have a PW stage 2 kit on its way sometime next week, which I'll attempt to install myself.

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Cheers, also have started the polishing of the intercooler. Picked up some sand paper and a metal polishing kit from bunnings.

I'll put some pics up once its finished. Definitely looking a lot shinier already!

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Nice build thread Goliath :spoton:

Well done on winning the kit off Facebook! Would've been stoked of I won something like that haha

Castle hill are awesome from what I see on Facebook. Always got falcon turbos in, seen a heap of pictures posted up of them doing work on them. Get good numbers from them too.

Good luck with the power mods and let us know how you go and who with :yes:

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Yeah, shes definitely coming along little piece by piece. But not to far away from where I want to be haha.

Still waiting for that Mothers kit to rock up haha, hopefully it will be at work tomorrow sometime.

Looks like I will just be in the market for intake + battery relo, Cat and xcal + Tune.

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Thought I'd do a little update seeming I haven't done one for a while! Not this is a big post, so I have some cliffs at the bottom as well, your welcome haha

Managed to crash the car on my birthday. I was pretty tired after a long day at rugby (play and then supporting the higher grades), then watching my mates soccer match after, combined with the wet weather and cold tyres.

So I was leaving the soccer oval which is literally 2 corners from my house (roughly 250m), as I exited turning right going downhill, the back slid out and I over corrected resulting in what felt like the car jumping around (so the car had 180'd). The right hand front went in to the gutter and right hand rear into the boot of another car. Luckily no one was on the road when this happened although the car that I hit had and LPG tank in the boot, so was lucky with that. Damage to the body was pretty minor and cosmetic, but suspension was stuffed for the front and rear (front control arm gone), rear caliper and disc gone as well has both drivers side wheels. Got the car towed to a holding yard and tried to make the best of my birthday night!

Sunday (the day after) began the Insurance process through AAMI.

The car was picked up and taken to the Bella Vista Assessment centre. It then took them another week to deliver it to their choice of repairer and got there the day before a long weekend (so another delay to start work). The repair was scheduled to take 3 weeks. At first the Repairers were great, would answer all my questions and give me fairly good detail on what they were doing. During the repair process I received no less than 6 delays and was finally able to pick the car up after 7 weeks had passed by.

When I arrived to pickup the car they were still doing some test driving. They handed the car back to me and told me there was an Airbag fault which they could not clear, and that I would have to drive the car myself to Ford to get this fixed. In effect, driving the car without working airbags. I admit I didn't look over the car to closely when I picked it up, but once I was home, I had the chance to take my time and look over the car. These were the following problems I found with the car initially:

- Both Headlights were mounted incorrectly

- Front bumper had smudge/defect in paint

- Drivers door handle had multiple scratches

- Both new wheels were severely scratched at the wheelnut inserts

- Driver side skirt was not clipped in place at rear wheel arch

- Plastic/rubber lining in rear wheel arch was bent

- White spots on bootlid

- Missing chrome coolant cap (oil cap and power steering cap still in place)

- Paint mismatch between the rear quarter and rear bumper

- Wheel alignment off

I took the car to Ford as soon as I could and they and they told me I could pick it up in another 2 days. Got the call that the car was ready and awaiting payment from the Repairer. Contacted the repairer and the told me their credit card was maxed out, so I had to wait another day to collect the car. I picked the car up and found that Ford had chipped the paint in right hand rear door. Showed them this and they acknowledged that it wasn't there when I dropped the car off and would get their repaired to fix this. I had the car booked to go back to fix the above problems, so would take the car back to Ford to get the panel repaired.

After another week with the car at the repairers, I picked it up and found more issues;

- More white spots on the boot

- The repaired drivers door handle no longer sits flush

- Passenger door does not sit flush with the body

- Multiple paint imperfections in the rear passenger door (apart from the chip from Ford)

- Also the repairer tried to tell me that the paint was matched and that it simply the paint finish is different on plastic to metal (which I agree to a point, but the difference here was significant).

- As well as AAMI not organising at car for me to use like they told me they would do

Dropped the car off at Ford after, so their repairer could fix the paint chip. Fords repairer contacts me, letting me know that the paint process used by AAMI's repairer was terrible and that the panel was not correctly prepped and primed, so the paint was not sticking to the panel and could be picked off with your finger. So now it's looking like the all the stuff they painted is of dismal quality.

I organised to take it to the Assessment centre again and the assessor literally did a 2minute checkout of the car in which they said they will look after everything except the paint (which was fine in their eyes) and that they would send it back to that repairer for the 3rd go, even after I insisted it not go back.

I was not having that, so took the car with me. It seemed the best thing for me to do was attack AAMI on Facebook, which seemed to help. I got a call from the Branch manager of the assessment centre telling me it will be going to another repairer and that they would finally be giving me a car to use (FG XR6).

Took the car back to the assessment centre and picked up the hire car. Was told I would hear from them within a day or two, to let me know what repairer they were using and how long it would take. Later that day I was also booked in for my second knee reconstruction as a result of a rugby injury a couple weeks prior.

4 days went by with no attempted contact from AAMI, even after multiple calls to them, they still could not tell me where it was and what was happening. On the 5th day, I get a call a midday from the repairer I've never heard of, letting me know the car is ready to be picked up (luckily I had cleared my schedule, NOT!). Anyway, managed to collect the car that day and inspected the car again, all of the problems seemed to have been fixed, apart from a slightly deflated tyre. The new repairer let me know that paint process used was of extremely poor quality (even though the original repairer and AAMI assessors told me otherwise) and stripped the paint and repainted it, as well as matching the rear quarter paint to the bumper back (which I was also told was fine before).

Got the car home and had a closer inspection, found a couple of minor things like a paint drip in the rear wheel arch and a chip in the clear coat on the door handle. I organised myself to get the car back in to the repairers this time (this Monday coming) as I have to day off to see my knee specialist (2 week checkup).

I will definitely not be renewing with AAMI and will be telling my friends and family to not to insure with them. I will be seeking reimbursement for petrol used, the lost coolant cap and time off work, which I'm sure is going to be another long process.

Cliffs:

- Car in an incident

- AAMI took it so a repairer

- delayed multiple times

- picked up car with lots of problems

- Had to take car to Ford to fix problem which helped me find out the paint used during the repair was crap

- repairer had a 2nd go of it and still had multiple problems

- after much arguing AAMI agreed to take the car to another repairer

- Had no contact of where the car was being repaired and received a call on the day it was ready to be picked up

- Still a couple minor problems which will hopefully be resolved shortly

- Seeking reimbursement

- DONT CHOOSE AAMI

Oh and also fitted some eBay XR6 Scuff plates

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