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CompUser said:
High speed driving and driving in a box... :rolleyes: :p

Does it even matter here in the US. We don't have an autobonds :(

Does putting shiney chrome wheels on a car improve its performance or a custom grill? However I can see how spoilers and molding

And who is going to be high speed driving and drifting in their esclade :rolleyes:
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True, chrome wheels and custom grills aren't very necessary. I don't know, to each their own. What you think doesn't look good someone else thinks it does. Maybe they're attempting to compensate for a certain shortcoming or whatever. :p

Have you seen the sort of traffic that goes down 95 a day in places like Miami, Daytona, Jacksonville? Hell, I go eighty and I feel as if I'm going to be run over by them. Escalades do do high speed driving, though I'll admit, I would be quite afraid to do drifting in an Escalade.
 
Sweetfeld28 said:
I am sooooo, jealous...


I wish '05 SSM [Silver Streak Mica], had that damn stereo/ipod adapter that you kids have the option of getting. However, i am sure that you ordered your car with that option. :)

Anyway, did you, and your buddy, get any accessories? Or are you planning to put any on your tC's? Are you guy's members of ScionLife.com? Hope both of you enjoy your tC's as much as I have.

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I am planning on going and tinting and I think I'm gonna lower it also. I'll probably end up making just some subtle modifications, nothing too big. The iPod adapter is pretty cool, though I wish that I could adjust tracks with the steering wheel controls. I'm no a memeber of ScionLife.com, but I do dabble a bit on the YourscionTC forums here and there. Those pics are actually from Scion event that was at Sacramento Raceway this past weekend (I have a few more pics if your interested in some "pimped" out TC's).
 
My new Jetta!

Got it about 2 weeks ago. I just ordered a Kenwood DPX-701 receiver plus an iPod adapter for it. :cool:

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The wife's new car.

I just bought my Scion a few weeks back. Well then the wife decided at 27 she is too old for our minivan, lol. So, we just picked up a CX-7. Pretty nice car, turbo, 6 speed auto, sport shift, 18" wheels. Now I just need to buy another mac to get another Apple sticker. :D
 

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nospleen said:
I just bought my Scion a few weeks back. Well then the wife decided at 27 she is too old for our minivan, lol. So, we just picked up a CX-7. Pretty nice car, turbo, 6 speed auto, sport shift, 18" wheels. Now I just need to buy another mac to get another Apple sticker. :D
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I actually like that new CX-7. It is a very cool looking car. Is the turbo audible or to they suppress its noise as much as possible. I remember my mom's saab 9000 turbo you could really hear but with some new cars you can hardly hear it.

To the new owner of the Jetta, all I can say is good luck.

My mom's year old Touareg with 18,000 miles is going in for a crunching noise when it turns (it happened before on the other side- a CV joint or something) , door seal hanging out of the car, burnt out tail light, and burnt out license plate light (for about the 9th time- yeah, go ahead and chage $25 to replace it). Good thing the car is under warranty.

Watch out for your oil changes too, my uncle has a passat and it costs him about $65 at the dealer. Our car is $75 and an oil changing place that uses the proper Castrol oil & filters, but its like $85 or $80 at the dealer. And they make the car so that you cannot change the oil yourself unless you have a way of lifting the car off the ground 4 ft.
 
MattG said:
Got it about 2 weeks ago. I just ordered a Kenwood DPX-701 receiver plus an iPod adapter for it. :cool:



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NICE Jetta! Man, I love those. I was looking at them at a dealership a while back and they are so nice. The interiors are just incredible. Some of the nicest I've seen.

I'd like to get me an older GTI VR6 for my next car.
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benthewraith said:
Gosh that's beautiful, but such a dark car in Fort Myers. :(
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It's actually not as dark as it looks in the picture...it's kind of an odd color. Depending on what the light is like, sometimes it looks grayish, sometimes more blue-green.

I really wanted a different color, but the cars at the dealership that had the colors I liked were on average $5000 more each.

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Very slick MattG. 5 speed?
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No, they really didn't have many to choose from at the dealership (actually two of the cars I looked at that I really liked were manual transmission, but they were each loaded with sport-packages and things that brought the price up too high :( ). It does have the TipTronic built into it, though.
 
CompUser said:
I actually like that new CX-7. It is a very cool looking car. Is the turbo audible or to they suppress its noise as much as possible. I remember my mom's saab 9000 turbo you could really hear but with some new cars you can hardly hear it.

To the new owner of the Jetta, all I can say is good luck.

My mom's year old Touareg with 18,000 miles is going in for a crunching noise when it turns (it happened before on the other side- a CV joint or something) , door seal hanging out of the car, burnt out tail light, and burnt out license plate light (for about the 9th time- yeah, go ahead and chage $25 to replace it). Good thing the car is under warranty.

Watch out for your oil changes too, my uncle has a passat and it costs him about $65 at the dealer. Our car is $75 and an oil changing place that uses the proper Castrol oil & filters, but its like $85 or $80 at the dealer. And they make the car so that you cannot change the oil yourself unless you have a way of lifting the car off the ground 4 ft.
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The turbo is actually pretty quiet. I kind of like to hear a turbo spool up, but you cannot on this one. It runs really strong, so far I am very happy. The wind noise could be a little more surpressed, but otherwise everything is great.
 
nospleen said:
The turbo is actually pretty quiet. I kind of like to hear a turbo spool up, but you cannot on this one. It runs really strong, so far I am very happy. The wind noise could be a little more surpressed, but otherwise everything is great.
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Ahh, what a shame about the turbo. My with my moms old saab I remember you could hear the whine of the turbo without having to listen for it. I drove my uncles passat (2002 1.8 turbo) and you could hear the turbo but it wasn't as pronounced. It had some turbo lag too- it was like you would accelerate, hit 3000rpm and then the turbo would kick in and you would zoom off. That plus wearing soccer cleats made it very weird to drive.

To MattG- your jetta is the same color as my mom's touareg I think.
 
CompUser said:
I actually like that new CX-7. It is a very cool looking car. Is the turbo audible or to they suppress its noise as much as possible. I remember my mom's saab 9000 turbo you could really hear but with some new cars you can hardly hear it.

To the new owner of the Jetta, all I can say is good luck.

My mom's year old Touareg with 18,000 miles is going in for a crunching noise when it turns (it happened before on the other side- a CV joint or something) , door seal hanging out of the car, burnt out tail light, and burnt out license plate light (for about the 9th time- yeah, go ahead and chage $25 to replace it). Good thing the car is under warranty.

Watch out for your oil changes too, my uncle has a passat and it costs him about $65 at the dealer. Our car is $75 and an oil changing place that uses the proper Castrol oil & filters, but its like $85 or $80 at the dealer. And they make the car so that you cannot change the oil yourself unless you have a way of lifting the car off the ground 4 ft.
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your mom should get the t-reg VAG'd and tell the techs you want to see if its throwing any codes..

and about changing oil.. its soooo easy to change the oil on all generations of vws and audis... it takes 10 minutes max.. and the only reason why it takes 10 minutes is because you gotta drain out the oil via gravity. changing oil is a driveway job.. actually a lot of what you said costs a lot of money if it werent for volkswagens warrenty are all driveway jobs. pick up a bentley manual for your dubs and you're good to go.. :D
 
cplusON3R said:
your mom should get the t-reg VAG'd and tell the techs you want to see if its throwing any codes..

and about changing oil.. its soooo easy to change the oil on all generations of vws and audis... it takes 10 minutes max.. and the only reason why it takes 10 minutes is because you gotta drain out the oil via gravity. changing oil is a driveway job.. actually a lot of what you said costs a lot of money if it werent for volkswagens warrenty are all driveway jobs. pick up a bentley manual for your dubs and you're good to go.. :D
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Yea its easy once you take some giant plastic shield off of the bottom of the car and then something oil pan. Basically they make it so that unless you have a lift to get your car off the ground you cannot easily change the oil thus forcing you to go to the dealer. VW used to take the giant plate off the the bottom of the car and then drain the oil. Later on they realized every time they took of the plate it wouldn't stay on as tight so they would syphon the gas out. Then they realized that wasn't a good idea cause they don't get all the oil out nor do they get out all the grudgy crap at the bottom. So now they are back to taking the plate off of the car. I don't know what this plate does, its not like a skip plate cause its plastic but apparently it has to go on there for some reason.

My dad does it in our Discovery and Grand Cherokee with no problems. My grandma's cutlass requires those things you drive up on to get more ground clearance and elbow room.

The Touareg has been nothing but trouble- CV joint, some air suspension part, CD player, a window, trunk latch x2, lights... I could probably go on.

A guy at my dads work has the V6 version with 20,000 miles on it and his only major problem on it has been that after 5,000 miles his tires were worn down to needing replacement. He got new tires but has to sort out the tire warranty with the noncooperative nonmajor tire company.
 
cages suck!@ yes i do own a cage but it's only driven for rainy and freezing days.

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Just sold my 2002 Saab 9-5 Aero for something slightly more nutty !
Bought an 02 C32 AMG, bit of a sleeper with 349 horses lurking under the bonnet :eek: , along with a 3.2 supercharged v6 :p

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