Your Christmas wish for under $100

phelan

Wow. G20s are that cheap now?

I kid, I kid.

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kenchan

the seller needs to pay $100 for someone to take it.

HKYStormFront

mine's just a hair over $100 at $110, a 1TB external hard drive on newegg with an ethernet port. i wanna plug it into my router so i can access my torrented tv shows on the xbox in the living room now that the desktop is no longer in there

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ImportConvert

So, anyway, what's your fun-car?

I, too, would like something peppy like a little Z, for a DD, but cannot swing 2-notes right now. The G20 was easy to just pay for/insure. A newer mustang/Z/Challenger, etc. Not so much. So, I gotta have a boring DD.

I'm beginning to mirror that. I won't own another Infiniti or Nissan, for sure, after experiencing the build-quality they present. I dare say my 2001 GM was better made than this 2002 Infiniti. The car drives/rides great and I love the 7-disk and bose and power everything and black leather, it just breaks down way more than even my GM did.

phelan

Mine? An Audi.

Edit: wtf, why do you edit and ask me a completely different question? Are you trying to set me up or something?

My fun car is the Z. But hey, even my Audi is a joy to drive. It does everything I ask it to do.

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HKYStormFront

"fancy" cars with lots of bells and whistles typically have more to go wrong, what's your "2001 GM" product?

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ImportConvert

Actually, it's the meat and potatoes dying with this import. The motor-mounts. CV boots. Thermostat. Radiator cracked near the fill-neck. Ignition switch, etc. This is at 117K on the odometer and the car looks very pampered. Interior is flawless, etc.

Also, who the hell puts a cap/rotor distributor on a car in 2002? WTF!? Yeah, had to replace that, and am amazed I didn't get misfire codes as bad as the rotor looked. Must have a mean ignition system to bridge that gap, lol

All the accessories work flawlessly.

With the GM, the only thing that went out was the T/O bearing at 85K miles, the clutch hydraulics (master cyl.), and the rear-end. All about the same-time. Other than that, it was little-stuff, accessories, etc.

Jeffblue

nissan/infiniti has changed and improved a lot since 2001.

ImportConvert

Nice. I always heard Audi was expensive to maintain, though. This G20 has eaten me up already somewhat. Makes it hard to save money like I intended. My G20 does all I ask of it as well, though. It gets me from A to B. That is what a DD is about to me. The fun stuff will stay in storage until my nights off.

Maybe when I get into my late 20's I can afford a fast DD and a fast fun-car. Right now, though, a fast fun-car and a boring DD seem to be the speed I am at in life right now.

As has GM, the Z06 being the 2nd most reliable sports car made (second to the Porsche by a very narrow margin).

ImportConvert

Careful. I was wishing my computer were a touch faster (Pavilion 2.2 from 2008) and all of a sudden the motherboard died and I had to go drop $1K on a new setup to run the stuff I want to run.

Jeffblue

i'd hope so for the price tag.

HKYStormFront

the G20 has an SR20 engine (and 2002 was the last year iirc) which was sourced from the 90's when almost EVERY car had a dist cap/rotor setup, i'm getting really tired of you trash talking nissan on this forum because that's all you seem to be here to do all you are doing is showing your pure ignorance for all things cars while thinking you know everything

as for your other concerns, as a one-time career mechanic, i can say that the thermostat is a wear item, as are CV boots, especially on a FWD car where they are turning frequently (as opposed to the rear where they only rotate in the same direction). if you wanna complain about CV boots, go find the B5 section on vwvortex and come back and cry some more. those fools are replacing them every 50k miles and it's normal

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phelan

They are expensive if you listen to the dealership. They steal money from you left and right. I service the car myself these days. Only one I really had to soak was a new fuel pump. ~$400 at the stealership to install. Meh.

Other than that, it's worked like a charm. Warranties and recalls have obviously occurred, but I don't pay, so I don't care.

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ImportConvert

Z06 isn't that expensive for what you get imho. You can get one of the left-over 2010's loaded out for 72K right now. If you want a more stripped one, they can be had in the low 60's, or could a few months ago. For a new one, start about 10K under MSRP.

It's the motor-mounts that got me. I spent a ton of money on that buying OEM mounts, then my mechanic said "Oh, you got ripped" and bought me a non-oem mount. SUPRISE! The **** broke in 2 months and I had to go buy an OEM to replace it or endure it again. Then you have that installation isn't practical at my appartment complex. Same with the axles. Basically, I didn't want to tear into a foreign car and find out I was missing something, etc. etc. I did that once on my friend's Nissan truck. Replaced his rotors/pads for him, and one of the calipers had frozen up.

Basically, I would rather work for a few hours indoors than on a car that I have no enthusiasm for except as a DD. I have vision, but not enough vision to say "If I save a couple hundred here, I can apply it 6 months later" when saving that couple-hundred involves cut up hands and time out in the cold under the car. I set aside $1500/mo for my other car, and that is enough for me.

HKYStormFront

what exactly do i need to be "careful" about?

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09 Pontiac G8 GXP // M6 // Sunroof // Tint... For now