Lewdog in the market for a new ride.....

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by MIAdragon

IMO locks do very little other than annoying YOU when you need to get them on and off. Id skip them. I dont run them on any car I have and I have a 6K set of rims on the car I DD. If someone wants them they will be gone. And if I can be honest I think someone would be doing you a fav taking them, far and away the most unpleasant part of your new car, again IMO.

, I don't run them either

[SAUTO]

Those would probably.


I can usually get any lock off, one way or another. But **** doing it on the side of the road. They are a deterrent. Anyone could install them

Most spline drive are the same, the type you showed has more than one key pattern.

[DeezNutz]

lew is worried about putting things on lock down, and MIA suggests putting a "free to good home" sign on them.

Vintage CP. .

FTR, congrats on the new car, dude. Looks good.

[Bugeater]

I like the wheels on your car lew, if I had something that they would fit on I'd steal them in a heartbeat.

[Radar Chief]

Switch your Celica to liability only or just DD that Mustang and tell your uncle to suck it.

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by Radar Chief

Switch your Celica to liability only or just DD that Mustang and tell your uncle to suck it.

Celica is getting sold and I'll tell my uncle that the 'Stang is gonna get daily driven into the ground!

He worked in Detroit in the automotive industry as an engineer for 40+ years. He can tell you about any car ever made. I noticed this back in October when I went to the Henry Ford Museum.

He has a 1974 Corvette Stingray, the year in which he designed the working mechanisms behind the dashboard, that he puts about 1k miles on per year. It's had tons of work to maintain it, even as little as he drives it. Not to mention it rides like a rough hog on most roads, not to mention the shitty roads in Detroit. You couldn't realistically daily drive that thing. I think he is having trouble equating a mid 2000's muscle car to his mid 1970's Corvette. Besides him, everyone else says drive it. It's a car and will be fun for me.

I've also been reading about that 2005 GT model on the internet and there are plenty of higher mileage ones still going strong and most people say the car has been very reliable. Engines nowadays are really built to last.

[MIAdragon]

Originally Posted by lewdog

Celica is getting sold and I'll tell my uncle that the 'Stang is gonna get daily driven into the ground!

He worked in Detroit in the automotive industry as an engineer for 40+ years. He can tell you about any car ever made. I noticed this back in October when I went to the Henry Ford Museum.

He has a 1974 Corvette Stingray, the year in which he designed the working mechanisms behind the dashboard, that he puts about 1k miles on per year. It's had tons of work to maintain it, even as little as he drives it. Not to mention it rides like a rough hog on most roads, not to mention the shitty roads in Detroit. You couldn't realistically daily drive that thing. I think he is having trouble equating a mid 2000's muscle car to his mid 1970's Corvette. Besides him, everyone else says drive it. It's a car and will be fun for me.

I've also been reading about that 2005 GT model on the internet and there are plenty of higher mileage ones still going strong and most people say the car has been very reliable. Engines nowadays are really built to last.

That 3V will last you well past 100K. Change the oil and enjoy. You're over thinking this.

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by Baconeater

1974 is about the worst possible year of corvette to own. 1st year of the plastic bumper POSes

It's funny but I was back there in October. I hadn't been back in 10 years but I remember seeing that Corvette and thinking it was pretty neat. Now that I am not a teenager, it seemed not as neat. Had no idea about that bumper but that sucks!

Originally Posted by MIAdragon

That 3V will last you well past 100K. Change the oil and enjoy. You're over thinking this.

You are catching on!


Truth be told, I never thought I'd own an American car. Yup, I'm one of those guys. Reliability of the domestic cars has never matched foreign counterparts, and I never thought I'd buy a performance car so comparing them that way had no bearing. But really, I am no longer stressing over this from any standpoint. I really can't wait to get it. Even trying to take care of that black paint and tan interior.

[Radar Chief]

Originally Posted by lewdog

It's funny but I was back there in October. I hadn't been back in 10 years but I remember seeing that Corvette and thinking it was pretty neat. Now that I am not a teenager, it seemed not as neat. Had no idea about that bumper but that sucks!

Stingrays are by far my favorite Corvettes and 74 was the last pre-smog control year when you could still get one with a 454 in it. After that they got loaded down with smog pumps and a rats nest of vacuum hoses that made for anemic engines.

[Bugeater]

1974 is about the worst possible year of corvette to own. 1st year of the plastic bumper POSes

[Rain Man]

I have no idea why wheels are so expensive. If you look at a new car, it has probably 50,000 precisely manufactured parts working in unison. And yet the "optional wheels" are 10 percent of the purchase price. I need to get into that line of business because the big money is apparently in making and selling wheels.

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I have no idea why wheels are so expensive. If you look at a new car, it has probably 50,000 precisely manufactured parts working in unison. And yet the "optional wheels" are 10 percent of the purchase price. I need to get into that line of business because the big money is apparently in making and selling wheels.

Apricot colored spinner rims and you'd be making millions!!!

[lewdog]

Just because everyone loves my car saga, I had to put more money into the Celica today. No fault of the car itself, however.

Driving down the freeway at 80 MPH and some douche in a truck, a bit up a head in the far left lane drops a ton of mud/rocks from the underside of his truck. NO ****ING MUD FLAPS! It rocket flies towards the front of my car, a car that has no bottom grill below the license plate. Yes, all celicas were made like this. Directly in that area is my AC Condensor. It clearly dents that pretty far back and cracks some of it. I take it to the mechanic in case the radiator is leaking and they tell me my radiator sits behind there and it's likely that has been hit from the AC condensor being dented so hard. However, at this time it's not leaking.

So I left the car there over-night so they can diagnose in the morning. Gives me a quote, which sucks for a car I am selling. Anyway, once they disassemble, it turns out there's a shield between my AC condensor and my radiator. Only the shield was hit and the radiator was fine.

It's funny but the AC in this car has NEVER been serviced. I am not sure how that's possible but getting the AC condensor fixed obviously had them recharge my whole AC which probably needed to be done anyway.

So now whowever gets my car now has new AC as well! Price might go up a bit with more work being added in, however.


Thanks for listening CP!

[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by lewdog

Just because everyone loves my car saga, I had to put more money into the Celica today. No fault of the car itself, however.

Driving down the freeway at 80 MPH and some douche in a truck, a bit up a head in the far left lane drops a ton of mud/rocks from the underside of his truck. NO ****ING MUD FLAPS! It rocket flies towards the front of my car, a car that has no bottom grill below the license plate. Yes, all celicas were made like this. Directly in that area is my AC Condensor. It clearly dents that pretty far back and cracks some of it. I take it to the mechanic in case the radiator is leaking and they tell me my radiator sits behind there and it's likely that has been hit from the AC condensor being dented so hard. However, at this time it's not leaking.

So I left the car there over-night so they can diagnose in the morning. Gives me a quote, which sucks for a car I am selling. Anyway, once they disassemble, it turns out there's a shield between my AC condensor and my radiator. Only the shield was hit and the radiator was fine.

It's funny but the AC in this car has NEVER been serviced. I am not sure how that's possible but getting the AC condensor fixed obviously had them recharge my whole AC which probably needed to be done anyway.

So now whowever gets my car now has new AC as well! Price might go up a bit with more work being added in, however.


Thanks for listening CP!

if it doesn't leak there is no reason to service the AC.

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

if it doesn't leak there is no reason to service the AC.

The AC condensor was cracked and dented. So it was replaced.

Looks like this but had a huge dent/misaligned and cracked horizontal panels. About the size of a tennis ball mark.




If you are talking about never servicing my AC, I find it odd that running it here for three summers that it never quit. It gets run from March through October here. And even sporadically in the winter.