ghostjmf wrote:
triviawayne:
For me, looking out the side windows when driving is to make sure no-one's in my car's blind spots or would have been seen by my missing peripheral vision if I had enough of it. Which I've been offered surgery for; insurance would cover it because with me its not for cosmetic reasons. However, what *is* cosmetic, & why I don't want it, is that I would want to look like "young me", not those squirrel-eyed people you see in all the "after" ads. So I'll just keep my ageing deepset eyes.
I am physically able to drive without turn signals at night, but its not legal. So I don't do it.
This is far from the only repair on this car in recent history. However, I probably could have avoided the $200.00 for a window, with the wrong tint, which is peeling at the top, so I think its someone's aftermarket idea, if I'd just not pulled *my* original window up.
As an update, the blue tint does *not* seem to make things darker at night. Still bugs me during the day, though.
My garage is not the dealer. On that rare occasion when I was sent to a dealer, several cars ago on a Civic that had a carburetor problem that even a new carburetor (or the dealer) couldn't fix, I found that dealers have absolute contempt for old cars, even though they're models of cars they sell.
As for buying a Civic window; part of Acura's ads for the RSX talk about how various features, including the windows, are lighter & thinner. So they're probably not interchangeable.
I'm sure my garage looked into it, before they scouted this one out from New Hampshire. Nothing I looked up on the internet suggested using a Civic window.
Just because of your "problem" doesn't mean other people don't have to be constantly looking out their side windows--trust me, we do.
It's illegal to drive without turn signals during the day as well. Plus you'll never get me to believe you never drove one mile over the speed limit, went through a questionable yellow light, never failed to use a turn signal when it was working, parked where you shouldn't have, or SOMETHING not legal.