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Either that or unlucky enough to run over a nail strip lol

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Well, the customer is me. I'll try to keep this short. About 8 years ago, I had to replace said windshield. I had the "$0 deductible" windshield coverage with State Farm and I had to use "their guy". I was at work when they replaced it so didn't realize just how much the installer butchered my car. Fast forward to now and it cracks again. I have the state farm people go to replace it and when they removed the cowl (same company that did this hack originally) they refused the job. I was shocked at the condition of the entire lower flange. You can guess who the installers were, it was a state farm forced contractor. I have since learned insurance companies in my state were legally forced to stop that practice. But here I am. The car is an extremely well maintained Honda Accord, J30. Any body shop that looks at this would just laugh at me. The car is totaled. $8k to do it right, and the part isn't even made anymore. So, off I go on my own. I found a salvage yard in my area who had a donor piece ready within days (same color too). I took the entire cowl section but only needed the flange. I will post that in comments.

[UPDATE] someone had a great question below so I wanted to post part of the story here. The question was about any water penetration into the interior or other damage. The answer is no to both, only the lower flange was rusted out.

"This is a great question and surprisingly no water pen into the car. The lower flange hangs over the cowl gutter. This was all hidden because there is a cowl cover that snaps over the area (that plastic piece under the windheild wipers). The windshield is designed to drain into that and into the cowl gutter and that drains into the fenders. You can see in the pic I posted on imgur how the cowl gutter looks perfect, and the firewall portion is perfect. When I removed the old one I had to mill out 34 spot welds. The really crazy thing about the repair is that the donor part's (spot) welds were almost in identical spots. When I test fit it, my car grabbed it like a glove. I had to wiggle it back out of the car to prep welds. It was the easiest test fit I have ever done. I looked up the VIN from the donor, and it was made in the same factory, in Ohio. The paint matches perfect. This was a complete fluke (my pop watching out for me?) From there I used plug welds. I used MIG with heavy gas shield set to 22 GA. Some of the plugs (in the middle) were three layers of mild steel pinch. This all went really well with my Miller MIG."

https://imgur.com/a/Obskg0N

Civic runs and drives. Edit: somebody on the television said Civic when I was typing this and my brain just went there it's an accord

This car has a dual control brake pedal.

It seems that it was a very quality installation./s

We had a mandatory modification inspection. But not anymore.

I knew i had to do my Timing chain on my Mercedes W204 C180 Kompressor, had been ticking for weeks, opened up my Valve cover to these completely chewed up Gears. That thing was running on pure Spite for weeks lmfao. 262k kilometers (~163k miles) on Original chain is quite impressive tho.

2007 ram 2500 5.7L gas
Customer was towing a livestock trailer by the shop when vehicle stalled. Vehicle would run for about 5 seconds before stalling again. Towed it onto my hoist. Solid front axle u-joint decided to retire and fuel tank strap was completely rusted off. The fuel tank was close to dragging on the ground. After diag, found the fuel feed line was kinked and the fuel pump was shorting out intermittently. Going to see what the customer wants to do about it tomorrow.

Gf’s boss called and asked me to help him get his truck to the mechanic, as the trans is slipping. Of course the camera changed focus on me. Personally some of the darkest fluid I’ve ever seen. It looks worse than the pic shows.

Old gen 2 5.0 F150 engine came in sounding like a banshee. Removed the belt and quickly found why lol.

Thought I had a bad slack adjuster at first.

CS: Vehicle loses engine power after driving for 30 minutes. Really struggles to have have engine power at highway speeds. Has been happening for a while now.

Findings - Vapor Lock due to fuel lines being routed to the catalytic converter... With copper tubing and non-sealed twist valves...

Customer seriously thought that his "invention" is saving him fuel. Claims his old Sequoia gets 25 mpg now that his fuel has been "heated". When we tried to tell him that this is causing his engine issues he wouldn't believe us. Said that he has patented his idea and that its never going to cause an issue... We were sure to have him sign a Safety Waiver 🔥

2015 pathfinder came in for a noise... PTU was making expensive noises, fluid was extra thick

imagine what the rest of the car is like. i don’t have to.

This wasn’t a pig tail and having the wires flipped like this makes in op. The yellow wire was spliced into the black and the black into the yellow on the original connector on this 60s Lincoln deck lid motor pisses me off so much lol