I was doing some work on my "new" '07 GX470. This is my wife's new replacement for her GS300. The GX was in my garage while I do all the fluid changes, clean battery, fix parking brake, check brakes, replacing plastic clips, etc. It's been sitting there a couple of weeks. No big rush. Taking my time.
Well, I finally get back to it ready to put everything back together and I notice a piece I had removed and had laid there under the car was bent. How in the world did that happen? Nobody had driven the GX. It was metal and it couldn't have bent itself. I had moved the floor jack and maybe I had run over it.
I asked my wife had she by chance driven it. She had not.
I went back to work trying to bend this piece back. I can't as it had been squished. The next day my son came over and I told him what had happened how completely baffled I was to how the piece got bent. He doesn't know. Then the next day I'm outside blowing leaves off the driveway and I see a 10 mm socket in the driveway on the same side as the GX. I thought that was odd. I had been using that socket to work on the GX. I had never raised the garage door on that side in the last 3 weeks.
So now I changed the question. I asked, "Has anyone moved the GX? Like out of the garage?" Amazingly, my wife and son immediately responded, "We moved it back just to get room the bring the Christmas tree down."
To which I responded, "I asked both of you had you driven the GX." To which they both responded, "We didn't drive it. We just backed it up 3 feet." I see their point. I had no problem with their answer. My definition of "driving" included
cranking the engine and moving the car. Their definition was taking it on the highway.
So the bent part mystery was solved and $11 and a nice 3 hour drive Greensboro Lexus fixed me right up.
Sometimes, it's all in how you ask the question.
Well, I finally get back to it ready to put everything back together and I notice a piece I had removed and had laid there under the car was bent. How in the world did that happen? Nobody had driven the GX. It was metal and it couldn't have bent itself. I had moved the floor jack and maybe I had run over it.
I asked my wife had she by chance driven it. She had not.
I went back to work trying to bend this piece back. I can't as it had been squished. The next day my son came over and I told him what had happened how completely baffled I was to how the piece got bent. He doesn't know. Then the next day I'm outside blowing leaves off the driveway and I see a 10 mm socket in the driveway on the same side as the GX. I thought that was odd. I had been using that socket to work on the GX. I had never raised the garage door on that side in the last 3 weeks.
So now I changed the question. I asked, "Has anyone moved the GX? Like out of the garage?" Amazingly, my wife and son immediately responded, "We moved it back just to get room the bring the Christmas tree down."
To which I responded, "I asked both of you had you driven the GX." To which they both responded, "We didn't drive it. We just backed it up 3 feet." I see their point. I had no problem with their answer. My definition of "driving" included
cranking the engine and moving the car. Their definition was taking it on the highway.
So the bent part mystery was solved and $11 and a nice 3 hour drive Greensboro Lexus fixed me right up.
Sometimes, it's all in how you ask the question.