Buying a 10+ year old car what could go wrong?

Masturbatory offering.

http://i.imgur.com/WWGwrzo.jpg

Oooooh, Luscious Red.

Best RX design ever.

Good man bmills.

Got to drive a green rx-7tt of the same run a few miles, but the top end turbo was out. Low, planted, & fast.. Yours? I barely see one a year nowadays.

The garage is the natural habitat, blown up and sitting on jack stands.

The answer is always ls1... Just kidding, but lots people drop them into those. I love the design.

No, please no! (and I know the answer is always LS-it!)

If I may, cross-post from the cars owned thread:

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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Heh. Reminds me of a guy a year or two above me growing up. His Colombian, absentee father would give him a new Mazda RX7 every year and ask for the old one back. Something was definitely fishy and the kid even thought so, but what did he care he was getting a new sports car every year.

He named the first one Luscious Red and then when his dad told him he had to part with Luscious Red a year later he just called every one thereafter Luscious ______ (insert color here).

Your list reads very close to his series of Mazdas.

Luscious Brown was my favorite.

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The car above is in great shape; only 12k miles on it. I joke about the garage thing because it's an unfortunate truth for a lot of them.

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Originally Posted by Mazderati

Masturbatory offering.

http://i.imgur.com/WWGwrzo.jpg

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Looks like a fucking Mazda Miata.

Yeah... They look exactly alike....

lol
http://images.hgmsites.net/med/mazda...00182240_m.jpg

Those rx-7s are high up on my list of all time best desings.

Nice work on the R bd, that was fast.

Agreed, I love those fd rx7.
Back on topic. If you buy a car over ten years old, your belts could look like this. If they do, you should change them. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...0fffb5e983.jpg

Getting nickeled and dimed over here

In the last 3 weeks…

front driver wheel bearing
got new set of 5 tires
battery shit the bed
fuel pump shit the bed

^^^Pic. I like knowing what people drive.
That socks having random stuff like battery and fuel pump go.
I have done control arms, belts (and now I know I need to do Pulleys, might as well do the waterpump), new tires, wheels, and I have a stack of sway Bar end links and tie rods in the garage.

I need to replace either front right strut or the engine mount in the Element. 10+ year old parts so anything is fair game. Winter project that I'm putting off. Starter or alternator might need replacement before winter is over as well. In the grand scheme it's cheap as hell to run, just need to do some digging on the forums to pinpoint fixes.

We need an automotive sub forum. I swear I enjoy the car threads here more than any of the car forums I am a member of. Can't remember the last time I posted on one of those.

I need to refill my whiskey.

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We need an automotive sub forum. I swear I enjoy the car threads here more than any of the car forums I am a member of. Can't remember the last time I opted on one of those either.

I need to refill my whiskey.

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And it would need a sub sub forum dedicated to winter tires.

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^^^Pic. I like knowing what people drive.
That socks having random stuff like battery and fuel pump go.
I have done control arms, belts (and now I know I need to do Pulleys, might as well do the waterpump), new tires, wheels, and I have a stack of sway Bar end links and tie rods in the garage.

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04 Blazer

https://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5743/3...a0d70f8e_b.jpgIMG_0861 by AD, on Flickr

Fuel pump was a fun one.. Was bopping around fishing spots at the shore. Drive up on the dune to take a look, RPMs start going wild. I turned the car off to avoid any damage since I didn't know what the cause was at the time. Go to fire it back up and no luck. But I did notice the noise my fuel pump normally makes sounded like it was recorded and slowed down 10 fold. Was able to have someone give me a push down the dune. Ubered back to my place (but no room for the rods), so I rode 13 miles down the drag on a beach cruiser bike, grabbed the rods, and rode back to fish the following AM. Didn't catch anything...

Finally putting on wheel spacers tomorrow. The Zr2's came with a narrower track width in the rear, 1.25" should even things up or at least get it close. The offset has been driving me crazy.

The brakes are also an ongoing project, new calipers all around will probably happen next spring.

I would also be all for an auto sub forum.

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Originally Posted by El Chupacabra

And it would need a sub sub forum dedicated to winter tires.

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And separate sub sub forums for Subarus and the TGR AudiRS6AvantEuroDiesel6MTwithabox

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04 Blazer

https://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5743/3...a0d70f8e_b.jpgIMG_0861 by AD, on Flickr

Fuel pump was a fun one.. Was bopping around fishing spots at the shore. Drive up on the dune to take a look, RPMs start going wild. I turned the car off to avoid any damage since I didn't know what the cause was at the time. Go to fire it back up and no luck. But I did notice the noise my fuel pump normally makes sounded like it was recorded and slowed down 10 fold. Was able to have someone give me a push down the dune. Ubered back to my place (but no room for the rods), so I rode 13 miles down the drag on a beach cruiser bike, grabbed the rods, and rode back to fish the following AM. Didn't catch anything...

Finally putting on wheel spacers tomorrow. The Zr2's came with a narrower track width in the rear, 1.25" should even things up or at least get it close. The offset has been driving me crazy.

The brakes are also an ongoing project, new calipers all around will probably happen next spring.

I would also be all for an auto sub forum.

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I always liked those ZR2s. They were like the American Pathfinder. Why in the hell would they have a narrower track in the rear? That would drive me insane.

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Getting nickeled and dimed over here

In the last 3 weeks…

front driver wheel bearing
got new set of 5 tires
battery shit the bed
fuel pump shit the bed

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Want me to make you feel better?

$700 flat tire?

not even a #firstworldproblem, that is an #oldmanproblem

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Originally Posted by east or bust

Getting nickeled and dimed over here

In the last 3 weeks…

front driver wheel bearing
got new set of 5 tires
battery shit the bed
fuel pump shit the bed

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As has been previously said, you can pay to drive a new car or pay to maintain an old car. Hell, this year with new tires and normal maintenance for my 10 year old car, I easily spent $3k. That is still cheaper than the car payment for an AudiRS6AvantEuroDiesel6MTwithabox, if I could buy one in Drumpland. Hell, maybe he could get rid of the guberment agency responsible for the pesky no import rulz

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Want me to make you feel better?

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does it involve paying me 2k?

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And separate sub sub forums for Subarus and the TGR AudiRS6AvantEuroDiesel6MTwithabox



I always liked those ZR2s. They were like the American Pathfinder. Why in the hell would they have a narrower track in the rear? That would drive me insane.

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From what I've read, not from an official source, GM has always made their 4x4s this way because it creates a better turning radius on road and provides better traction off road because the tires don't ride in the same ruts.

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From what I've read, not from an official source, GM has always made their 4x4s this way because it creates a better turning radius on road and provides better traction off road because the tires don't ride in the same ruts.

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GM full size trucks and SUVs were always like this too. Don't know if the current new ones still are.

This is noticeable especially on the lifted bro trucks with aftermarket wheels - rear tires are somewhat close to the body work, but the fronts stick way out. Looks goofy IMHO.