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EJ22, right? Pretty solid engine.
Did a vehicle history report, looks like this thing had been stolen at least twice in its lifetime. Apparently recovered this last time after the insurance company had already paid off on it. Has one oddball tire that I'm resolving today.
If only cars could talk
Congrats, nonetheless. Hopefully the kid(s) will get ample use out of, and experience from, it!
Bob
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EdmundsForums
Your input is greatly appreciated!
They're on track to break the annual sales record for the 5th year in a row! :shades:
The STi bone stock blew the motor at 20k miles and was replaced under warranty. But still a bone stock car should not have #4 piston ringland and main bearing issues.
AZP is doing very well, I managed to employ 3 of my good friends and we are set to hit about 300k-400k in gross sales next year.
We are also running our own private track event at NJMP Thunderbolt in June for our clients and friends!
New stable is:
04 Armada
12 Jaguar XJ
10 BMW 335i X-drive Sedan
Either late this year or early next year I will likely pickup a BRZ for the shop as a weekend track car and advertising tool.
-Mike Paisan
http://AZPInstalls.com
http://AZPTrackEvents.com
Take care, Mike!
335Xi nice. It is what I would be driving if we had a local dealer. Loved the car, I am just hesitant with owning a vehicle with nearest dealer/shop support 350 miles away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VWQ1nLkXzvI
A couple of my stills are in the film.
Truth be told the jag I got as a friends and family deal through a friend who works at jag/RR corp. but I am sold on it. Rides wonderful, plenty of power, great handling and super light/nimble for its size.
Mike
I tracked it 2 wks ago and she did well even on all seasons. I have some new summers ready to go on in a week.
Mike
-mike
As some of you know from FB, Laurie, her son Alex, and I will be moving to Philadelphia mid-July. It's going back home, so to speak. I have my Pennsylvania license and am actively looking for a teaching position up there, and I am also working on getting a food truck started up, with the help of others.
We are excited and nervous, but feel that now is the time to do it; Michael graduated from Temple U. in February and got a job as a junior copywriter at Saatchi & Saatchi in NYC, his dream job for now. Laurie's older son Paul is at Drexel studying chemical engineering, my family is in NJ in the Princeton area, and her dad is also in the Philadelphia area; it's about family.
Lil' Blue has around 107K miles and needs to TLC; she runs well but the mileage I am getting is around 13-15mpg around town...a good tuneup...Paisan, expect a visit this summer. Veronica is running wonderfully, having been taken care of by an incredible Porsche guy named Kevin Wheeler in Boca; former crew chief to Derek Bell in Florida, former mechanic for the Audi factory GT Team back then, and has been doing Porsches since he was 16.
Here is a photo of the two girls on a PCA drive to Key Largo. ( I seem to be having problems with the image...it disappears when posted but is there when previewed??? Ideas on how to fix this?)
I will be updating the progress as things happen.
Serge
Of course it's too big...thumbnail disappears!
Or use any other height/width size. :shades:
The girl ain't bad lookin' either.
June 19 we are running a private track day at NJMP...
I can also lend some insight into Drexel as I spent 7 years there in a few different majors...
Let me know if you want any small business advice too on starting that food truck biz...
I'm a wealth of info aren't I??
-mike
Oh, and welcome back to the cold!
I'm guessing Juice is at the beach or further south? Haven't spotted him around in a few weeks.
Bob
Left last week on Monday as soon as husband got home from working his 12 hour all night shift ... I drove from South Bend to Malvern, AR which is quite a haul since we weren't able to leave home until about 9:00. Tuesday, drove on to Clear Lake Area south of Houston. Wed & Thur visiting with parents (and mom's sister). Thur evening we drove to the north side of Houston to visit with friends and my daughter and her family. Fri visiting with the family there and up to leave on Sat morning to drive home. Hoping to drive back to Blytheville, AR on Saturday, and then home on Sun ... did you see the "hoping"?
We stopped just on the west side of Little Rock to eat dinner, then back in car and onto the loop around Little Rock to I-40. Just before the I-40 exit, we got 'bells and whistles' and all kinds of messages on the digital display. Pulled to the shoulder and flipped on the heater (one very clear message was 'overheating'), trying to figure out the course of action. Finally moved forward mostly on the shoulder and with emergency flashers and took the I-40 exit and then the 1st exit after getting on and parked at a truck stop to further make plans.
While there, we asked a couple of local policemen (eating dinner at Subway in the truck stop!) where we might find auto parts or something close by. We were directed back toward Little Rock on I-40 a couple exits and we'd find at least a WalMart and an auto parts store. We found the WalMart but no auto parts. We thought maybe we'd misunderstood which direction to turn and went back the other way to look and a block later found a PepBoys open at 7:00 PM on Saturday. Pulled in there. Couldn't get the work done then, but they were also open on Sunday. There was a Holiday Inn across the street. We stayed overnight, and left on Sunday afternoon about 2:30 CDT - one new radiator and belt tensioner (and everything that goes with a new radiator) and a little (OK, a LOT) poorer.
I drove into South Bend about 4 AM EDT on Monday morning (13.5 hours later). Husband had to work last night ... at least neither of us had to be at a job first thing on Monday morning!
(no - not in the Subaru ... in what used to be the husband's dad's car - '99 Cadillac Deville which he's already sunk other $$ into. I have to admit I liked driving it a lot better than his Lincoln Town Car, but I'm tired of road trip 'adventures'!)
Got to to be outta here by mid-August.
Bob
Cheers Pat.
Quick! Run for higher ground!
Insurance, I've been promised by my agent should be 'reasonable' - about half that of a typical boy. A girl with straight A's & drivers ed gets multiple discounts. I'll let you know what the damage is.
Anyhow, the insurance is going to be a pittance compared to the quotes for colleges! This is the season. On the road each weekend. I now know the Dean of the School of Science, Dept of Physics (a good dozen of them...) on a first name basis, and we still have a few to go. This is tougher than I though. She already won one scholarship ($12k / yr, 48k total) in a competition, so we are using that as a bargaining chip to see what we can weasel out of the others.
http://www.gmhightechperformance.com/hotnews/1308_john_a_beck_1945_2013/
Wish my folks had been taking cars apart and putting them back together when I was 12....
Oddly, cover for probationary drivers in Australia is not too bad, but excesses leap a lot when the driver is under 25. Absolutely no loading as a Learner Driver, who are statistically the safest of all drivers (but accident rates soar the moment they get a license). My daughter has had her Learners Permit for four years but is concentrating on study so has only accumulated 50 hours driving, far short of the 120 hours required to sit a Driver's test.
Yet again, I am grateful that we are educating our kids in Australia, rather than the USA. For a lengthy period, Tertiary Education was free in Australia and even now, we only pay 20% of true cost. Most students use a government loan scheme, repayable out of taxable earnings after they exceed a threshold. There is a discount for early payment but the figures don't work for most students who are better off to use the loan scheme. It explains why Australians are very well educated. There are some private universities, but the top ones are all state owned.
My daughter passed up our suggestion that she study overseas or interstate, insisting that her best choice was the local university at the other end of our suburb which offers the courses she wants. That saves residential college fees as she prefers to live at home. I can't fault her logic as it is a top three uni. with a good honours programme in music, literature and psychology.
She also has sorted her plans for the two post-graduate degrees she is planning, one a short tram ride away and the second a longer tram ride away; none more than an hour from home. We may end up supporting her for a long time to come as I thought she was working too many hours and offered to fund her, if she got enough High Distinctions; paying off so far!
Cheers
Graham
Either way can work - it's based on the kid.
Both my wife and I attended universities a long way from home so lived in college; indirectly that was how I met her as she was in college with friends of mine, albeit in another state. We tried to persuade our daughter of the benefits but, given the university she attends is just at the other end of our suburb, she scratched that idea. Mind you, her social life on campus looks as good as mine ever was.
I had expected that she would want to take a car to university but she has it worked out that it can be quicker to take a tram and bus, rather than drive and park (and it is a lot cheaper as campus parking is pricey - intended to dissuade students from bringing cars onto campus). The down side is that I am getting to the point of wishing to replace the Kluger, which is supposed to be handed on to her. I might end up having to buy two cars at once.
Cheers
Graham
Other things we drove:
2011 (last gen) & 2013 (new) Forester - Nice, but not really what we want long term.
2011 (last gen) & 2012 & 2013 (current) Honda CR-V - Very nice, especially the current gen. A little concerned about the AWD delay, but my sister in New Hampshire has had both (recently traded her 2008 for a 2013 in EX-L trim) and loves them. Too stripped in LX trim, but the EX offers great value for the cash. Overall, we liked it better than the Forester.
2011 Toyota Venza - Wife's favorite of all we've looked at, but too heavy for the 4 cyl, and the V6 is too thirsty. Very pricy...
2011 (last gen) and 2013 (new) Rav4 - sat in, but never drove either. The 2013 has to have the most unevenly padded and ill-formed seats of any new car I've ever sat in. Both of us rejected two of them.
2011 Nissan Rogue - seemed smaller, and poor visibility. Never drove it.
Tonight I made an offer on an in-transit 2.5i Premium with moonroof..... Several non-local dealers have emailed me extremely competitive offers, and I'd love it if my local guy could match it. It would be nice to purchase local for a change. We'll see.
J/K.... wanted to see if ANYBODY out there was paying attention. Weeks without a post on this board.
Well, today we did it.
2014 Outback 2.5i Premium with Moonroof pkg.