and I'm now broke.............

[Dave Van]

I finally got the chance to take a picture of it,

I agree...no animal or bird.....someone set something there and pulled it. Any chance it happened at a shopping center or like place??? People are so careless any more.

My cats are all indoor only.....but ever try and wrangle cats outdoors??? Or have idiot neighbors that brag about killing and torturing local feral cats???

[Joe Handley]

I agree...no animal or bird.....someone set something there and pulled it. Any chance it happened at a shopping center or like place??? People are so careless any more.

My cats are all indoor only.....but ever try and wrangle cats outdoors??? Or have idiot neighbors that brag about killing and torturing local feral cats???

I work retail, I'm always in parking lots....you should see my poor Cherokee, most of the body damage to it is from people opening their doors into it

I forgot to mention, I received a set of Weathertech floor mats for the car as a birthday present last month and finally got to install them right before vacation. When Dad bought them, the guy at their factory store made sure to tell him that we needed to remove the existing floormats before installing theirs............apparently they have had customer's that aren't quite bright enough to figure that out on their own then call to complain that these mats don't fit in their cars

Here's my factory mats

And here they are installed

And speaking of vacation, shot a pic of it while we were on vacation, here it is with my folks Town and Country at our hotel

After looking at the two side by side a few times at the hotel, I'm beginning to think that the person/people that worked to restyle the Sebring to the 200 also must have been the ones that styled the '01-'06 Minivans. I see a bit of a family resemblance between the two.

[Rob Hall]

WeatherTech mats are great...I put a set of them in my Grand Cherokee (and a WT cargo mat) when I bought it back in '00. I haven't put any in my STS yet...still have my factory carpeted mats...but I will get WeatherTechs when I move to a climate w/ more precipitation.

[DaveM]

Great looking 200. I've heard a lot of good reports on these. I hope you enjoy it for a long time.

I'm in Michigan. There aren't many Sundances or Shadows left up here because the last ones were made about 19 years ago. (Replaced in early 1994 by hte 1995 Neon.) We had a Sundance. Totally bulletproof car, and nice to drive. Probably the best front wheel drive I have ever had. They were great cars, but there was a bit of a rust problem. There might be a few more in Southern states where road salt wasn't used.

The first generation Neon was a total disaster, and probably the reason that Chrysler is now owned by Fiat. I had a first year Neon, and Chrysler had released the car to the public without doing enough testing first. Absolute junk from top to bottom. Motor was junk, Transmission was junk. ABS failed, electric problems galore, computer glitches, radios died, were recalled and died again. Windshields leaked and ruined the front of the headliner. Batteries would be killed after a few months due to drain and charging problems. It was America's version of the Yugo. (And that statement may be unfair to Yugos!) They managed to fix a lot of these problems as the Neon matured, but the damage done to their reputation by the first year cars never healed. (And admittedly, I never missed an opportunity to tell anybody how bad the car really was.) When the warranty ended at 36,000 I only spent another few grand on repairs before scrapping the car at 40,000 miles.

Interestingly enough, every few days I see an old box shaped four door Omni driving down M-55 in almost perfect condition. It looks like it has always lived in a garage. I think it is an early '80s version as it has the earlier style chrome grill and lights. I had a 1981 Omni, and it was a total brick. I sold it at 115,000 miles, and should have hung on to it, as the next owner doubled that while driving a paper route with it! Hopefully these are the cars that the 200 takes after!

Good luck, and enjoy the new car.

[lordairgtar]

Nice on the 200. I had a 84 Duster hatchback. I miss that little rocket

[mademan]

Weather tech floor mats/ trunk liners are a great investment!! grabbed up the front floor mats ( cause no one will ever be in the back seat... EVER) and trunk liner for my Camaro. keeps all the little junk your shoes pick up, out of the carpet.

[Joe Handley]

AAARRRGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just got rear ended little over an hour ago and the SOB made a run for it while I was on the phone with 9-1-1

Right now this is the only obvious damage, I'm going to take it to a body guy I know tomorrow morning before work.......guess it's a good thing I got screwed on hours tomorrow after all.

[Joe Handley]

Just got back from the body shop and the body man there, who is a friend, only noticed that damage to the trim too. Mom wondered if he has warrants and the body guy suggested he isn't currently licensed to drive.