ugh! currently sitting
ugh! currently sitting without my 2019 Toyota CHR for the SECOND TIME i n 10.5 months (May 2022 / April 2023). Last year $15000 worth of rodent damage. Yesterday woke up to all my dash lights on and FIVE warning messages across my screen. Drove to Toyota and left my car in their service parking lot prior to opening. I've had enough. They call just before closing and stated that a rodent chewed through my ABS wiring, my Airbag wiring and my Emergency break wiring and that the tech wasnt done inspecting the car for more damage. Toyota didnt even bother to call me at all today, the day before a stat holiday to provide an update on my car. So here I am long weekend, with no car.
Last year Insurance paid for the repairs, $15000, called them again they pretty much laughed and said that if I put through another claim, for the same problem in less than a year, the company may or may not pay for it again, but that they will drop me as a client at my end of year review and that I will then be flagged by high risk and no decent company will take me on, so any company that will cover me will have high premiums :( Parked in the same driveway is a Nissan (2015) Rouge and not a single sign of a rodent ever! used to park my Toyota Rav4 (2016) and my Toyota Matrix (2006) again no problems at all.
Sadly I will need to move away from Toyota vehicles, as I cant risk this anymore.