What did you do to your Mirage today?

[Wallythacker]

Factory floor mats were not an add on charge when I bought my 2017, but that changed somewhere along the line.

Like you, I am impressed with my Weather Tech floor mats. I only have the front ones (both Mirage & Forester), but I really like them, too.

I wish I had bought two front sets instead of front and rear. I bought the rear to transport my kid but she hasn't used the rear seat for nearly 5 years. Oh well.

[Basic]

Resurrected it from the fencerow to pull the wheels and tires to put on the blue one. Put a battery in it and it fired right off like it had ran yesterday. I think this car can be put back on the road actually. I was just too frustrated when it happened. Plus CVT. Bleh.

[MetroMPG]

Worth doing - it looks so well kept!

Not like my #*$&box.

[Basic]

Worth doing - it looks so well kept!

Not like my #*$&box.

Yeah it's just frustrating... everything is broken. Anything with a plastic tab... broken. Rad busted, every metal piece warped. Heck, even the hood looks ok from the outside, but the latch hoop is folded over sideways... ugh

[inuvik]

Resurrected it from the fencerow to pull the wheels and tires to put on the blue one. Put a battery in it and it fired right off like it had ran yesterday. I think this car can be put back on the road actually. I was just too frustrated when it happened. Plus CVT. Bleh.

It really doesn't look that bad. Replace both front fenders which shouldn't be hard to source. Hood looks ok, no need to replace the front bumper, just remove the front bumper and straighten out the damaged supports. Then heat a big bucket of hot water up to about 175F and pour it slowly over the damaged areas and reform it back to it's original shape and reinstall. Just did that with my rear bumper that my son damaged while he had my Mirage for 4 years that just got returned back to me. It's not perfect but once I got the bumper pliable it took less than 30 seconds to get all the deformation out of it.

[Basic]

Good words of encouragement. I will put some time towards it when I get home from this next work trip.

[Basic]

Yikes steelies sure are depressing. Good teaching lesson for the 15 year old though.

[jonesboro]

Gonna make a garage post tomorrow with more but installed some DIY mudflaps, and updated some interior details.











More tomorrow.

[7milesout]

Then heat a big bucket of hot water up to about 175F and pour it slowly over the damaged areas and reform it back to it's original shape...

How hot does the water need to be to pour over a CVT to form a 5-speed out of it?

[Basic]

Washed it and did a little wheel Hokey Pokey