Must be interesting to watch him open the hood???
Saw this XLR at our dealer for repairs (hopefully the picture will be clear enough). Front end damage is from the guy running into a truck, which also bent the frame. Since the hood was no longer usable, he simply covered the underframe with a tarp, guess he picked blue because the car is blue. Under the hood a number of items are literally taped down with duct tape, most of which appear to be electrical. The car is now a low rider at the rear wheels because he drowned his suspension and roof modules, but never fixed them and has continued driving that way for about a year, which has destroyed the rear shocks. He didn't have it in for repair of ANY of those problems, but only to have a misfire problem addressed.
Really sad to see a XLR in this condition, but impressive it's still running at all.
Wonder if he has any oil leaks?
The owner drilled the radiator supports and tapped them so he could bolt the hood shut.
One of the hood struts was blown so the hood was twisted when open.
Amy and I stood in disbelief that someone would do this to an XLR.
if I had the money and space then who wouldn't love to have something like this for a garage. 
Funny StoryMy dealer has an '05 XLR on his lot and he has people of less fortunate means wandering his lot throughout the evening hours. When they closed on Saturday evening everything was fine. One of the service department employees came in on Monday morning to unlock the dealership and he heard a "bang bang bang" he looked around and didn't see anything. He unlocked the door then heard the same thing again "bang bang bang". He looked over at the XLR and there was a person of less fortunate means locked inside the car.
Apparently they left the door unlocked and this person got in and used the XLR to sleep in Saturday night. Unfortunate for him the battery ran down and he was unable to get out the next morning. So he spent all night Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night in the XLR.
The police was called and the person in the XLR told the police "I'm on the job, I'm one of you, I'm undercover". Needless to say that wasn't true. Luckily he only broke the door push button and didn't soil the seat after 1 1/2 days in the car.
I can't think of a better place to sleep.
It's fine if that wants to work now but what an inconvenient time!
I've had an STS for 5 years that is supposed to recognize fob 1 or 2 when you open the door & adjust seats, mirrors, etc. automatically for the settings for that fob (like a XLR). This has NEVER worked since I've had it; I've always had to go into the nav & push "Driver 1" to get it to work.
We've taken it on its first long distance trip with my husband driving, but using my fob. After the first 3 stops, it has suddenly come to life & started putting the seats & everything where they are set for me when the door is opened.
Maybe now is the time to retry voice commands with it. All its ever done for any type of voice command you give it (whether for radio, A/C, whatever) is respond with "System defrost on" & turned on the defroster. If it works . . . I will miss arguing with it.
