Your Christmas wish for under $100

HKYStormFront · 12-08-2010, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

it's amazing to me the difference between audi and it's VW counterpart cars. audi's (in general) tend to be much more reliable even when built on the same platform and using the same powertrains

phelan · 12-08-2010, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by HKYStormFront

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

You might drop your external hd in the toilet while you're trying to figure out what to watch while you take a dump. Then you lose all your tv shows.

Jeffblue · 12-08-2010, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

i dont understand. you talk about trying to hopefulyl save enough to have a fun sports car, and then you talk about how the z06 isn't really that expensive. last time i checked, 60k on a car is expensive. yes they do come more expensive, but that still isn't cheap. yea its a good value i guess.

HKYStormFront · 12-08-2010, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by phelan

You might drop your external hd in the toilet while you're trying to figure out what to watch while you take a dump. Then you lose all your tv shows.

nah it'd stay behind my desktop chillin' permanently... my friend andy has this setup at his house and it's great to watch tv shows this way. that's what i'm looking for...

wishihadnav · 12-08-2010, 06:27 PM

$100 in crispy ones

phelan · 12-08-2010, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by HKYStormFront

nah it'd stay behind my desktop chillin' permanently... my friend andy has this setup at his house and it's great to watch tv shows this way. that's what i'm looking for...

so...wifi to your ipad, so you can watch tv while you dump?

ThoriumHotdog · 12-08-2010, 06:28 PM

These.

Cell · 12-08-2010, 06:30 PM

A second girl in bed for the extra fun...

priceless...

ImportConvert · 12-08-2010, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by HKYStormFront

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

Seems like when you want something, you sometimes get more than you bargained for. I wanted a slight upgrade. I got a melt-down.

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Originally Posted by 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

SR20 is a great engine. I was just stunned to see the cap/rotor under there considering my first car was a 93' crown vic ex cop-car and it didn't have that setup still.

yes, the CV boots are wear-items. I agree with you. Ticks me off that they both broke 5K miles after I bought the car, though, lol.

I haven't been around very long I guess, but I have never had a car break the radiator or motor-mounts randomly before, though. Also, almost every rubber bushing on the car has had to be replaced. That's new to me also.

On the plus-side, the accessories ALL work, ALL the time.

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Originally Posted by Jeffblue

i dont understand. you talk about trying to hopefulyl save enough to have a fun sports car, and then you talk about how the z06 isn't really that expensive. last time i checked, 60k on a car is expensive. yes they do come more expensive, but that still isn't cheap. yea its a good value i guess.

I meant it's a good value. I live small in areas I don't care about, such as my daily driver, etc. so that I can afford things like a Z06. I did not mean 60K was cheap, but for what you are getting, it's cheap. Will know in a month or so if my living somewhat frugal has allowed me to save up and roll one

HKYStormFront · 12-08-2010, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Cell

A second girl in bed for the extra fun...

priceless...

Office Space: "Me? Two chicks at once... Always wanted to do that."

HKYStormFront · 12-08-2010, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ImportConvert

Seems like when you want something, you sometimes get more than you bargained for. I wanted a slight upgrade. I got a melt-down.

forgot to mention i was a computer tech for a while, too (and am now a computer programmer)... trust me, i got this

Jeffblue · 12-08-2010, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ImportConvert

Seems like when you want something, you sometimes get more than you bargained for. I wanted a slight upgrade. I got a melt-down.

SR20 is a great engine. I was just stunned to see the cap/rotor under there considering my first car was a 93' crown vic ex cop-car and it didn't have that setup still.

yes, the CV boots are wear-items. I agree with you. Ticks me off that they both broke 5K miles after I bought the car, though, lol.

I haven't been around very long I guess, but I have never had a car break the radiator or motor-mounts randomly before, though. Also, almost every rubber bushing on the car has had to be replaced. That's new to me also.

On the plus-side, the accessories ALL work, ALL the time.

I meant it's a good value. I live small in areas I don't care about, such as my daily driver, etc. so that I can afford things like a Z06. I did not mean 60K was cheap, but for what you are getting, it's cheap. Will know in a month or so if my living somewhat frugal has allowed me to save up and roll one

so, just to confirm, you are complaining about the reliability a 10 year old daily driver, that you purchased used?

HKYStormFront · 12-08-2010, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by ImportConvert

SR20 is a great engine. I was just stunned to see the cap/rotor under there considering my first car was a 93' crown vic ex cop-car and it didn't have that setup still.

yes, the CV boots are wear-items. I agree with you. Ticks me off that they both broke 5K miles after I bought the car, though, lol.

I haven't been around very long I guess, but I have never had a car break the radiator or motor-mounts randomly before, though. Also, almost every rubber bushing on the car has had to be replaced. That's new to me also.

On the plus-side, the accessories ALL work, ALL the time.

sounds like you have had unusually bad luck with the car but it also sounds like you've unfairly judged all nissans based on that one car which is pretty lame

also bear in mind the G20, while a decent car, was a nissan sentra (their cheapest car at the time) dressed up and leathered out... it was the entry level infiniti for years. i'm not trying to make excuses for it but there's plenty of civic's, corola's, etc out there that have had the same issues with motor mounts and radiators because the parts put in these cars are from the lowest bidders to keep costs down

HKYStormFront · 12-08-2010, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeffblue

so, just to confirm, you are complaining about the reliability a 10 year old daily driver, that you purchased used?

a little bit of pee just came out

ImportConvert · 12-08-2010, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by HKYStormFront

forgot to mention i was a computer tech for a while, too (and am now a computer programmer)... trust me, i got this

Win! I know virtually nothing about computers and am sure I got fleeced on the one I bought. Maybe you can tell me how badly?

AMD Phenom II 955 3.2Ghz quad-core
Hitachi 1TB 7200rpm
8gig DDR3
GeForce GTX460 (768mb DDR5)
Tigerpro 500W power supply
Gigabyte 8800GM-UD2H
Coolermaster tower and an extra fan, woot!

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Originally Posted by HKYStormFront

sounds like you have had unusually bad luck with the car but it also sounds like you've unfairly judged all nissans based on that one car which is pretty lame

also bear in mind the G20, while a decent car, was a nissan sentra (their cheapest car at the time) dressed up and leathered out... it was the entry level infiniti for years. i'm not trying to make excuses for it but there's plenty of civic's, corola's, etc out there that have had the same issues with motor mounts and radiators because the parts put in these cars are from the lowest bidders to keep costs down

I have just never owned a car with bad motor mounts. In fact, I have only seen one motormount replaced in my entire life. It was on a 90's dodge. My Dad went through dozens of cars while I was growing up, putting about 250-400K miles on them each. I never saw him replace a motor mount. It just struck me as odd. Same with all the rubber bushings on this car. Even my 88 GT didn't need new bushings to ride quietly, etc.

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Originally Posted by Jeffblue

so, just to confirm, you are complaining about the reliability a 10 year old daily driver, that you purchased used?

Fair enough, but no, I am complaining about the poor judgement that I bought the first thing that met my specs (4-cyl, 4-door, not a pile) when everyone I spoke to has had NO trouble out of their Sentra, the Sentra was supposed to be one of the more reliable cars out there, and the Infiniti service dept. hasn't seen a G20 except mine in months they say. To be honest, the dealership traded me dead-even for my 149K mile Trans Am with dead air-conditioner compressor and torn up paint on the hood. I still think I did well. Just whining a bit I suppose.

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