Heres my current 3 cars (also in Sig). All 3 are stock photos, but the saab, truck, and civic are all exactly how they look...except the civic, ill explain. 2012 Tacoma, OffRoad beach bum truck. (long Island NY here, plenty of beach access) Crew Cab with Long Bed, Nav, Rear Camera, 4.0V6 240Hp, faster than you would think 2004 Saab 95 Arc, 2.3 Turbo, 5AT w/ paddle shifters. In this pic, the front spoiler is missing (under front bumper)...Mine is too, its notorious for being scraped off by concrete parking spot blobs. I also swapped the Arc gray leather interior (seats, door cards, headrests in back seat and center leather armrest and A pillars) with an Aero leather Black interior, it mad the interior look much better, and the Aero seats add memory seating and nicer seat warmers. Although Pass. Side warmer doesn't work, I think there might be a discrepancy with the harness, they came from a 2001 car. Ill figure that out when the time comes. This car is really fast and fun to drive, I spank Si's and a lot of the rice burners that infest Long Island. Faster than the 2004 Porsche Boxter, on paper and IRL lol (From experience, 6 speed boxter vs my 5AT saab. the look on the douche's face was priceless lol) Any my 2005 Civic, same color and came with the same (LX) hubcaps. Took mine off, riding on steelies. Now My civic used to look fresh as FcKu, not lowered or anything but a nice quiet muffler that added some low end grumble, and removed the stock intake silencer box. Sounds nice and loud. now the bad part, I have crashed this car numerous times, replaced all but 1 of the panels/doors with different colors, and the only mechanical detail I needed to address was an abused clutch (bought the car with 25K miles on it, clearly the clutch was beaten or mis used from previous owner) Besides the clutch, small stuff like engine mounts, timing chain, water pump, suspension bushings all around, cv joints, brake calipers up front, new drums in the rear, new drivers seat frame, etc. All done under warranty. Even the timing chain (just paid for parts) Now this stock picture represents what the car used to look like, and I also had some nice eBay Yellow fogs to jazz it up and 6000K HID conversion. Also has a ton of stereo equipment, over 4K watts in subs and speakers, and 2 12" Alpine Type S subs, custom box, miles of DIY wiring, and cranks loud as hell. Its still my baby beater. I drive all 3 cars currently above, the next two are old cars that each had less than 40K miles back in 08, since then I have bought the saab, civic and Tacoma. 1990 Corolla AE92 4A-FE 3 speed auto, 34K, traded for Civic in 09. Mine had balck steelies, tints (like this) and not lowered. same system as my Honda, I swapped it all over. One small (favorite) mod was from the base DX gague cluster to the LE cluster with tach, I just swapped out the mileage. The new cluster had over 275kMiles on the counter, I def didn't want to put those miles on my clock lol Any my beloved 95 Century 3.1V6 with an intake, sounded beastly. Almost got it turbo'd but blew both CVs, torque converter AND 1st gear in the 4 speed auto trying to do (drunken) burnouts, ie. neutral to drive at 4K rpm, even had a custom tach installed! lol This car had 41k miles by the time the tranny went kaput. Oh, and mine had a blue cloth top, blue interior, and a chrome luggage rack on the trunk. Also had similar system in this car, swapped most of it over to the corolla. The End.
Actually, it's gotten better. I actually work at a Ford dealership and the product and quality of execution has improved dramatically since the turn of the century. I am very good friends with one of the service advisor's who handled my truck every time it was in for warranty, and he said he's never seen an F-150 come in for warranty as much as mine. Every car brand has the odd lemon, and that's what mine was unfortunately. So, I tried Ford again. I'm positive that this one will yield better results. I dealt with mine for 2 years and got tired of making payments on a truck that I couldn't use. The problems I was having wasn't just common F-150 stuff. I had to have almost the entire front end replaced due to a steering knock and shimmy, and between September 2011 and November 2013, the entire rear end from the transfer case to the wheel-bearings would have replaced. Then there was this common issue with the intercooler, in that it pooled with condensation on a long trip, and accelerating would make the engine suck back the moisture into the throttle body, which sent the truck into limp-mode. It was really a pain in the ass!
I really wish that the us car industry was as good as it was like in the sixties. I like the style of american cars. It's just, sometimes they can be screwy. If it wasn't for the unions.
Hehe, over here it has always had a reputation for being absolutely abysmal I think the deterioration of the automobile industry is a global thing though, and not necessarily from a lack of skill etc. Go back to the 60's, your car was probably almost entirely mechanical with the only electrics being the lights and ignition. Cut to today, your car has enough computational power controlling the spark plugs to make a 60's computer scientist weep in awe because the computers they had filling entire rooms couldnt come close to outdoing them. As a result, never ever take a jet washer and absolutely not a steam washer anywhere near your cars engine, the electrical damage it can cause is absolutely ridiculous and can run into the thousands to repair. Higher end cars have even more electrical systems doing things like tweaking the suspension on the fly in response to potholes (they scan the road for them and everything) and speed, expensive, more to go wrong. Vibrations can damage solder joints between components, dust and dirt cause shorts, water is just obvious and the heat of the engine itself is cause for concern. There are sensors on the fuel lines, air intake manifold and exhaust manifold, if these stop functioning (which they do) then the EMU tends to think something is wrong with the engine itself and either restrict the maximum performance available to enough to sustain a mere crawl or cut the engine entirely, in reality nothing is wrong except there being a tad of dirt inside an exhaust sensor (engine misfirings can cause this actually).
Yeah. If I was gonna buy a new car, I'd buy german or japanese (accept mazda). Ah, yes, I have experienced this first hand. A few years ago, one of the oxygen, or co2 censors, or something like that went bad on my dad's 01 highlander. It was screwing up how the engine ran somehow. I think it somehow screwed up the whatever the hell made the car hard to start. It's just something so simple that can cause such a problem. All cars just have a super computer controlling everything from the fuel flow to the brakes. I've kinda decided I don't like cars that are post 2000. Don't like the styles or just how they are in general. I especially can't stand those stupid covers they stick over the engines. When you lift the hood it's just like a big piece of plastic. Sometimes you have to take stuff off just to get to the battery.
I find it amazing you can talk seriously about a 2001 Toyota Highlander, and mention oxygen sensors and automatic chokes in the same paragraph.
Me? Why? Should I be offended? I don't understand; apparently it's funny, according to the post above mine.
I don't understand either, the highlander def has 02 sensors and (automatic choke?) could be his verbage of throttle-by-wire...so I think he could very well speak of this car seriously. Or else its WHOOSH over my head too, and Im good with cars. - - - Updated - - - Oh yea that is funny lol - - - Updated - - - Anyway back on track, lets post some IRL daily driver photos or something. And to me its shocking that so many people don't have their own photos of their own cars (lol) however Im one to talk, I used all 5 stock photos I could find lol I will upload a pic of my beater Honda tho, its a real feast for the eyes.
Oh. I don't know everything about cars. I still don't see how it's funny enough to qualify for a whole post with just "hahaha".
Grans renault modus which my dad borrowed once. Was easier to jump start it by sticking two screwdrivers down through vents in the plastic to get at the alternator wiring than it was to get past the 2 sheets of plastic to get at the battery directly (battery and alternator are wired in parallel). Wouldnt bump start either (we tried that first), its actually the only car I have ever come across with a flat battery which then wouldnt bump start, apparently renault have some sort of mechanism to actively prevent it although I cant see why on earth they would. Just as dumb in my opinion are vauxhall, traditionally a brown or black cable in electronics is a ground/negative wire and red or orange positive, so you open the hood on most cars and they have red or orange on the positive terminal of the battery and brown or black on negative. So what do vauxhall do? Stick brown on negative and black on positive, causes a mind fuck and a half when its 6am and you are half asleep, ends up looking like a faded red/orange which you presume is positive and then you can take black to be negative, BIG SPARKS. Got white labels on my cars battery cables now with a big + and - marked on them. My stepdads vauxhall insignia had the head sensor replaced under warranty twice as it kept falsely reporting the temperature to be at dangerous levels causing the engine fan to be on full time when the engine temperature was actually closer to being low than high The second time the fan did have to be replaced because it had been run so heavily on a long journey that the motor overheated and the coils melted together which did cause genuine overheating. One of the fuel sensors was replaced once. The sensor monitoring the fuel level in the tank buggered up and started registering a full tank all the time, inconvenient but didnt effect function of car at least. The electronic handbrake failed once (actually that thing was never once convenient except for the fact it automatically disengaged if you drove off with it on). The car was only 2 years old when we got rid of it and in total had 9 repairs carried out by vauxhall, ignoring the fan motor which was caused by dodgy sensors anyway, only 1 repair was not a sensor (front brake cylinder leaked). When it wasnt broken in some way it was a nice enough car. - - - Updated - - -
Funny story. Way too off topic tho Juss Sayin' :facepalm: That Vauxall story with the brown/black is mindblowing tho. WOW.
Relax, friend. I thought the way he worded the post was more funny than your actual post that he was quoting. I had no intention of being an asshole. On topic, Here's more my truck, and contrary to the vibe I get from the demographic in this thread, I actually own this truck. Sexy truck is sexy, truck. Sexy. Truck sexy.
Sexy is, as Sexy does. Indeed. And I sell Chevys for a living lol Not to be a downer tho, cuz that is a rly nice truck inside, outside and underneath...but Ford really should have their new truck chassis ready by now, they have been using the same tired architecture for over a decade, unlike the Silverado which is finally modernized. The silvy is a really nice truck now finally, I sell a crap load of them. More than the Equinox or Traverse combined, and I'm on Long Island, the land of oversized family haulers and compact base model cars That being said, I've always been a fan of Ford products, and I think the EcoBoost V6 in the F150 is def comparable, if not a little nicer, than the new updated 5.3's in the Silvys, although our 6.2L and our TDs are def more boss than Fords offerings as of late. Rant Finito
1998 Silverado Z71 ,3.73's, G80, 350 vortec,20's with 33in Dune grapplers (imported from here) I had to het a tailgate with the banner (imported from here)
Facepalm wasn't for you bud, it was to facepalm the fact that this thread has spiraled out of control with these "even more off topic" posts. Chillax dood, we're all just chillin. You are very smart.
Thanks! I love the truck. One of these days I'll get around to starting to build one just like mine for this game. I used to sell for GM. I bailed right as GM filed for bankruptcy in 2009. I had to give up my cushy corner office and my Escalade EXT demo, but the decision to leave was one of the best decisions I've ever made. My friend stuck around and his flat pay was cut by about 30%, and his commission sucked due to GM cutting the lease program completely. 8 months after I left and started working for Ford, he was laid off from GM and he came to work with me.
