Car Enthusiast Club [Now Motorcycle friendly!] - First thread to 150k! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[FuzzyYellow]

42 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

being the truck has a new frame... it's probably worth fixing  with new metal if I'm honest as much work as it would be...

that's the issue. the truck is work $3000, but it's got a $15,000 frame in it. I have about another $3000 in parts and upgrades that I want to do to it. that puts me about $5500 into this one, which is only a bit more than what a good clean stock example goes for.
 

 

I can also buy a good condition cab from a scrapyard for about $500. it would be a crazy amount of work to swap cabs, but it's technically doable.

[PlayStation 2]

can we stop quoting vertical images thanks

 

also turns out that the car that's supposed to be mine isn't far from death

10/10 looks like I'm not even going to drive that car and I'm gonna buy the first car I drive

[Bitter]

My mom's neighbor is selling a 128K mile 2007 328xi down in Tennessee, any interested parties? She's asking $7k-ish

[Votivee]

What's your favorite cheap/easy mod that you have done to your car? Mods that you still enjoy and weren't just cool for a few weeks/a waste of money. $200 or less, and 1 hour or less of installation time.

 

Mine is probably a cross up of:

• Interior LED upgrade. Makes the interior of my 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee feel like it is a 2016 model. Picked up a kit from precision LED that replaced all 4 of my dome lights, 2 floor illumination lights, visor lights, trunk/hatch light and licence plate lights for $70.
• Premium hard rubber floor mats. Seriously. This might not apply to everyone, but we average between 300-400 inches of snow each winter where I live, and thanks to all that snow they salt the roads religiously here. It's nice not having my carpets be pure white from salt and just being able to dump melted snow and wash the floor mats off with a hose at the car wash. Got these for free as a hand-me-down but they run about $100 from weathertech

[Bitter]

My door striker and door check covers, super simple, super cheap, super easy and really dresses up the car and makes it look less like budget shit.

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6 hours ago, handymanshandle said:

can we stop quoting vertical images thanks

 

also turns out that the car that's supposed to be mine isn't far from death

10/10 looks like I'm not even going to drive that car and I'm gonna buy the first car I drive

What’s the car? 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Votivee said:

What's your favorite cheap/easy mod that you have done to your car? Mods that you still enjoy and weren't just cool for a few weeks/a waste of money. $200 or less, and 1 hour or less of installation time.

 

Mine is probably a cross up of:

• Interior LED upgrade. Makes the interior of my 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee feel like it is a 2016 model. Picked up a kit from precision LED that replaced all 4 of my dome lights, 2 floor illumination lights, visor lights, trunk/hatch light and licence plate lights for $70.
• Premium hard rubber floor mats. Seriously. This might not apply to everyone, but we average between 300-400 inches of snow each winter where I live, and thanks to all that snow they salt the roads religiously here. It's nice not having my carpets be pure white from salt and just being able to dump melted snow and wash the floor mats off with a hose at the car wash. Got these for free as a hand-me-down but they run about $100 from weathertech

Hands down a new head unit. Just because all the cars ive owned I couldn’t connect my phone over usb. I don’t really own my LC so it doesn’t count, would have to have an integrator.

[PlayStation 2]

19 minutes ago, floofer said:

What’s the car? 

1992 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera

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Just now, handymanshandle said:

1992 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera

Well it was probably dead when it was made then

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1 minute ago, floofer said:

Well it was probably dead when it was made then

nah my car isn't british or mexican

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2 hours ago, handymanshandle said:

nah my car isn't british or mexican

wait wait wait .... whats wrong with british cars?

[Guest]

2 hours ago, handymanshandle said:

nah my car isn't british or mexican

It’s worse: American 

[3 Lions]

2 hours ago, PandaCopyRight said:

wait wait wait .... whats wrong with british cars?

Nothing

[Ross Siggers]

3 hours ago, PandaCopyRight said:

wait wait wait .... whats wrong with british cars?

Depending on the era...what ISN'T wrong with British cars  

 

My favorite low cost mod to a car I buy is jacking it up and actually cleaning the underside/arches. The chunks of dirt that come out, especially from inside the lips of the arches...you just know you added a year or so to the cars lifespan 

[AlwaysFSX]

6 hours ago, PandaCopyRight said:

wait wait wait .... whats wrong with british cars?

What isn't wrong with them?

[Votivee]

11 hours ago, floofer said:

Hands down a new head unit. Just because all the cars ive owned I couldn’t connect my phone over usb. I don’t really own my LC so it doesn’t count, would have to have an integrator.

Definitely ups the enjoyment of driving. It's nice not having to search for stations over and over again while going on longer trips. I got a new one installed in my Jeep that supports carplay/android auto but it for sure did not fit into the confinements of "cheap and easy" 

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9 hours ago, PandaCopyRight said:

wait wait wait .... whats wrong with british cars?

the fact that they cost more than a divorce while being ridiculously expensive to maintain

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1 hour ago, handymanshandle said:

the fact that they cost more than a divorce while being ridiculously expensive to maintain

My dad used to do great deals on used leyland cars that he fixed with tin cans and cement.

[3 Lions]

1 hour ago, handymanshandle said:

the fact that they cost more than a divorce while being ridiculously expensive to maintain

All cars are expensive to maintain when they get to a certain age, your statement is complete nonsense. 

[FuzzyYellow]

12 hours ago, vinyldash303 said:

I haven’t done it yet- but on my 2007.5 tahoe you canget a kit for like $18 thats two t taps, and a diode that will make the low beams and fog lights stay on when you click the high beams on. Takes all of 7 min to install. Gonna do it this weekend or tomorrow after i’m done with college shit. Also need to hide the dash cam cable. Maybe some LED high beam bulbs? 

 

Theres not much I want to /do/ to it. When the cylinder deactivation gives out eventually I’m going to install a mild truck cam and tune it but thats really it honestly. When the air suspension eventually gives out i’m going to delete that and lift the front about an inch but- thats also it. It drives great. I do miss my S10 though. 

what'd ya do with the S10?

[iDeFecZx]

2 hours ago, handymanshandle said:

the fact that they cost more than a divorce while being ridiculously expensive to maintain

Everything Ive owned has been expensive to maintain and none of them have been british

[arnavvr]

On 3/28/2019 at 6:03 PM, bcredeur97 said:

Got this house reappraised. Mission very successful. I literally (more than) double my net worth if I sell this house tomorrow.

 

so buying a decent house at less than 2006 appraisal value is a VERY GOOD idea guys lol

 

just need to do this about 20 more times or until I hit $2 million then I can finally put a V8 in the Miata  @Real_PhillBert @warmmilk @FuzzyYellow @vinyldash303

 

Also you see kids? This is why you drive a cheap car (it’s still fun!) while young and a pile of savings so you can have more opportunities to do stuff like this earlier on

ugh I wish I could even dream of affording a house. The average sale price in my county is $1.5M...

[bcredeur97]

23 minutes ago, arnavvr said:

ugh I wish I could even dream of affording a house. The average sale price in my county is $1.5M...

you almost like have to have have a deep 6 figure job there to be "normal". Lol. I would honestly consider moving... there are better opportunities elsewhere just because expenses are so much lower

 

unless you're content... that is a thing.

[arnavvr]

1 minute ago, bcredeur97 said:

you almost like have to have have a deep 6 figure job there to be "normal". Lol. I would honestly consider moving... there are better opportunities elsewhere just because expenses are so much lower

 

unless you're content... that is a thing.

I believe poverty line is something like $117K for a family of four I live at home currently, but I would like to move out soon.

[PandaCopyRight]

3 hours ago, handymanshandle said:

the fact that they cost more than a divorce while being ridiculously expensive to maintain

what cars are you thinking about when you are talking about "cost more than a divorce while being ridiculously expensive to maintain" ? 

any car can be expensive to maintain if you get unlucky and end up with a bad example ... 

 

for example american cars over here cost quite a bit more than equal-ish european or japanese cars ... expecially compared to the prices in usa