I'm curious if anyone else has ever had this happen in general to their vehicle, I will give you a short run down of what happened and what's going on.
August 22nd, I was at a race in Bristol, TN and a bad storm came through after it ended. We were waiting to get out of a dirt parking lot/campground to head to the hotel when a bolt of lightning hit between me and another vehicle (give or take 10-20 ft between us). I didn't notice any issues at first and got out of the parking lot, probably 15 minutes later I noticed ABS/VSC/Traction Control lights all came on but seemed fine (we had about hour drive or more to the hotel). I started noticing the battery was dying so I was going to get off on the next decent exit to make a game plain of what to do next.
It happened that there was a dealership right beside the hotel which was Rusty Wallace Toyota in Morristown. The FJC didn't make it to an exit before basically freaking out and dying on the side of I-81 at about 1:30 am. We called Toyota, they sent out a rollback and ended up taking us all the way to the hotel/dealership. It cost us $65 which was a steal for getting us atleast somewhere for the night. I got up the next morning to talk to the Toyota folks and decided to leave it there and grab a rental til we can figure out exactly what was going on etc.
We drove home, I talked to the insurance and they agreed to take it over along with the rental. They worked on it til about a week ago and said it was fixed, they replaced the whole ABS system, main computer, battery and alternator. Picked up last saturday, drove it home perfectly fine and all week til last night.
Now the same dash lights are coming back on, so I am taking it to the local dealership to let them look it over and then contacting the insurance about findings.
Just kind of curious what else or when the bleeding stops! I'm sure someone has some more to go on, but I'm almost waiting for the day either they replace it all or total it. I know the last bill was about $5200.
August 22nd, I was at a race in Bristol, TN and a bad storm came through after it ended. We were waiting to get out of a dirt parking lot/campground to head to the hotel when a bolt of lightning hit between me and another vehicle (give or take 10-20 ft between us). I didn't notice any issues at first and got out of the parking lot, probably 15 minutes later I noticed ABS/VSC/Traction Control lights all came on but seemed fine (we had about hour drive or more to the hotel). I started noticing the battery was dying so I was going to get off on the next decent exit to make a game plain of what to do next.
It happened that there was a dealership right beside the hotel which was Rusty Wallace Toyota in Morristown. The FJC didn't make it to an exit before basically freaking out and dying on the side of I-81 at about 1:30 am. We called Toyota, they sent out a rollback and ended up taking us all the way to the hotel/dealership. It cost us $65 which was a steal for getting us atleast somewhere for the night. I got up the next morning to talk to the Toyota folks and decided to leave it there and grab a rental til we can figure out exactly what was going on etc.
We drove home, I talked to the insurance and they agreed to take it over along with the rental. They worked on it til about a week ago and said it was fixed, they replaced the whole ABS system, main computer, battery and alternator. Picked up last saturday, drove it home perfectly fine and all week til last night.
Now the same dash lights are coming back on, so I am taking it to the local dealership to let them look it over and then contacting the insurance about findings.
Just kind of curious what else or when the bleeding stops! I'm sure someone has some more to go on, but I'm almost waiting for the day either they replace it all or total it. I know the last bill was about $5200.
