What Happened To The Scion tC?

 This was probably the worst thing that had happened this past year. The day my Scion tC was struck while parked on the street, and had the front end, essentially, ripped off, effectively killing the car.

This logo, I made sure to pick up off the street, keep it as a memento to the car I lost.
What a frustrating ordeal.

I remember quite clearly when it happened, as I was alerted by the guy at the till that my car was just struck.

Well, I ran outside, and saw a trailer not far down the road still driving, and I thought it was he who may have accidentally done it, without realizing, but no, I was wrong. It was a white van, who wasn't paying attention when parking, and cut in way too quickly, smashing off the front bumper of my car.

I'm assuming the insurance took the easy road on the write-off, and decided that it'll be better to just write out a paid amount, vs spending the time to source parts for this car, especially as it was no longer manufactured by any manufacturuer at all.  Scion, having been effectively shut down by Toyota, and only a few models made the transition.  The tC, sadly, was not one of them.

I have a lot of good memories with that tC, it got me thru some times I tell ya! Was great in the winter. Was funny, because the day I got it, I had summer tires on it, and I was really nervous driving into work that day. Thankfully I had a set of used ones lined up to buy that afternoon, and they were on my car that night.

But when I bought it, I had basically bought it "only hearing it run".. I never test drove it, i never felt how it would handle on the road. I just looked at it, said... "Yeah, you know what. I really like this car..." And went and bought it.

It was a fantastic car. 
I put almost 100,000km on it when it got written off, and would have this year, had that not happened. From 170,000KM to 255,000KM, it was a very trustworthy, and incredibly reliable car.

Honestly, the only things that happened with it, were the oil pressure sensor started leaking. It worked fine, it just developed a leak, so I had to replace that, one of the calipers had seized, so I replaced that.. AND I had to replace a bearing, and the front sway bar links.
All wear and tear items, that you'd expect to have to replace, especially considering they were factory parts.
Brakes, and tires of course, plus oil and fluids were changed.

And then sadly, the inevitable happened. I always said, this car will be mine until it either dies, such as the engine or transmission pooch out, or... the car is written off.

Which is what happened...

Farewell my faithful ride... Farewell..

Chat soon...