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Minor thought here; my validation for going with a Green ZX2 as opposed to another Black one was proven correct tonight. Some kid talking away on his cell phone pulled out into traffic without looking. He was driving a very dirty black older model Escort without his lights on. If I hadn't been paying attention I would have had an encore performance of my previous bad luck. As it is couldn't see him until I was almost upon him. If that where to happen I think I would call it quits on the ZX2.
Checked Edmunds for actual prices and the dealer took about five minutes to meet my figures. One note here for anyone who owns a Hyundi... they have NO RESALE VALUE!!!! Visited 15 different dealers prior to my purchase and the best offer I got for my car was 6100.. worst offer was 5600. Trade in value was 7300... The dealer I bought the car from wanted to know how much I owned on my car and I said 7300. They offered 7300 and I kept a straight face and said... welllllllll ok lets deal! (actually owed about 6100.. so something to remember when you trade???????)One thing I had to go over with them was the need for premium fuel... and none of the salesmen were aware of this requirement.. so they took it to a gas station and filled it with premium! when I picked up the car it was about a 15 minute drive to my home...... but for some reason it took about 2 hours of driving to get home! One thing I will install today are some wheel locks! By the way.. if anyone else has the 6 disc changer in the trunk, well my solution is to cut cd's of all my favorite music on my cd recorder and I will end up with about a hundred of my favorite songs loaded in the car! Anyway, thanks to all of you who have provided sooooooo much info about the S/R. Hope to add to the posts as I take the long way home every day!
Russ
Congrats on the S/R. Glad to hear how much you like it. I couldn't make a good deal on an S/R so I just hung on to my 99 ZX2. All the yellow ones I found had sun roof. Found black S/Rs without it, but didn't want to keep black clean (current Z is green and that's bad enough).
Are you saying your S/R has no trunk release? My '99 ZX2 has yellow trunk release switch (button) left of steering wheel down low....have you looked down there?
AHHHHH.... the trials & tribulations of life with a ZX2!
Happily, or unhappily depending upon how you look at it there is NO WAY I could afford three car loans right now (the first is for my Late Black ZX2 and second it the loan I had to take to make up the difference when I went for my replacement GREEN ZX2).
Curiously on this lot, they also had two tropic green ones (vintage 98 and 99 respectively) and third 99 in some really horrible looking Sand Colour. I am glad they stopped this colour, as the car really does make the car look tacky.
I am going to stay with my Tropic Green ZX2 I have had enough new car fun for one year. My first ZX2, a black one, was involved in two accidents only a month apart. The second one totaled the car, and made me a believer in the ZX2 for life (The accident almost took my life is why). I won't bore our regular topic members with a rehash of my bad luck (I try to be compassionate where I can). However if you do a scroll back through this forum to the very beginning, and enter the first and now frozen ZX2 topic you can see my history.
My current ZX2 is a tropic green one, and still after almost two months and has less than 2000 miles on it. My first Black ZX2 had almost made it to 5000 miles before she was killed.
Much as Loved that Zinc Yellow ZX2 s/r there is no earthly way I can afford to pay for it. Though technicaly used it was for the most part brand new. Damn though she was nice looking, if only this and if only that... I think I need to buy a Virginia Lottery ticket tomorrow.
Ralex is quite correct, apart from a VERY SMALL number ZX2 S/Rs which will be reserved for special customers. The S/R has been dropped from the 2001 line up. Rumours abound that the ZX2 may not even finnish it's 2001 year run. IT is my understanding that they are pretty much using up parts for the 2001 year run.
But I agree, it is a good car, and resale is not a priority for me either - I just mentioned it because that is a big concern to many people.
I put mine in the trader early in the summer for just under 16k this summer with less then 20k km on it and got 1 phone call from a girl who couldn't actually afford what I wanted. Maybe I'll have better luck this spring.
Same engine, so hope for the best! By the way, ran a ZX3 on the way home.....he never stood a chance!!!!!!!!!
You have to admit though at least by selling it to the insurance company I did get the Blue book value of the car. Of course you do know the real reason I chose to wreck my first ZX2 don't you?
IT was all because I wanted the manual trans, sunroof, and power windows. So let me see a second car loan a couple thousand in UNrecoverable expences, an upcoming major insurance hike, AND some shattered nerves. As near as I can figure this econo performance car has cost me close $4,000 dollars over the average $13,000 most people pay for it. So I can now truthfully say my ZX2 has cost me around $17,000. Gee I guess I can say I have the most expensive ZX2 of any of us.
Christ suddenly I feel sick and not funny...
I still want to race my sister in her Civic SI but she won't do it.
Floridian
Pat
For some reason unknown to me, the AC compressor runs at times at all settings and seems to be causing the rough idle.
I dont think this helps you out. Sorry.
MjC
Christ the way I am talking my next car will be a large touring sedan. Lincoln here I come...
Racing is dangerous, and that is why you'll notice my stoplight racing is against friends and family. This way we can choose the racing turf. There is a street by my work that ends, but goes straight through a light and merges onto a highway by a gently curved two lane onramp. Get two cars side by side at the light and you can get the cars up to 160km/h or more - including time to slow back down and merge, in relative safety. No side streets to worry about cars popping out of, no traffic in front of you because your the first at the light if you time it right. A very practical setup actually.
My problem with people street racing in Northern Va is that people try to do it in traffic situations or worse in residential areas. Even at my Ford Dealership there is a short 120yard lane between the new car parking deck, and showroom. Along this lane kids with new toys, and adults who should know better; try to do one car drags. The problem is on one side there is the customer parking and the service area. While on the other there is the used car rows. Most of the salesmen, and myself agree that one day there will be a horrible accident caused by someone's utter stupidity. Whats worse it will probably happen to a young kid with mom and dad looking on.
BTW, I saw on some site that the rear window of the ZX2 has problems with window tinting, due to the logo/defroster lines. Has anyone here tried it?
MjC
You should really practice emergency braking in wet weather - pumping the brakes will stop you much quicker then skidding to a stop, sort of like manual ABS.
MjC
Every negative incident on the roads (and life in general) educates us in someway. In some regards close calls teach us to anticipate, and they can also bring our personal self confidence down to a more realistic plain. IF you remember my spate of bad luck with my first ZX2. Granted it will be a little while before I finnish paying for the mess financialy; however there where lessons for me to learn by those misadventures. Just as hopefully through telling the tale here in this forum may have taught others.
MjC
I was traveling at about 60 mph and accelerating when suddenly I lost all drive power. The engine was running, and the Tach was at about 3 or 4 thousand rpms. However I was unable to accelerate and may as well have been tapping the floor with my right foot for all the good it did. At any rate I was just coasting with no forward drive capability at all. I thought at first I had poped out of gear, but if that was case my engine would have suddenly reved and besides a quick attempt to down shift did nothing. Eventualy I put on the emergency blinkers, and prayed that no one would smack into me from the stern. As my speed dropped further and further down, on a hunch I tried turning the engine on and off. When "vrooom" suddenly I had power and was flying again. I took the car to Ford Tuesday Morning but they where unable to locate a problem. They went through the engines diagnostics, and even tried their online database. Just to see if anyone else had suffered a similar problem, but again no such luck. Does anyone have any advise? This could be potencialy dangerous if it happened again.
Just checking in to see what was happening. Don't forget my son's car did somewhat what you described. It did it every 400 miles or so. He ended up with a new motor, no more trouble after that. He gets good gas mileage and no problems.
He went to another car show and got another 3rd out of 5 cars. He was real happy.
As for the accidents, they are I hope in the past, though I will be paying for them for several more years.
I hope to god that little quirk my car did doesn't resurface again. IT was damned dangerous where it happene and could have caused a rear ender.
http://sites.netscape.net/photog0264/ZX2Page.htm
has a possible cure for offensive odors coming
from HVAC vents!
ra
Thanks for complements, and please call me Andrew. The name Andy in my case brings up some laughable Elementary School taunts, that almost 30 years later still haunt me.
I am still cleaning up some of the minor elements on the web page, in particular grammar and sentence structure. What amazed me is how long it took to do. I started out with a frames version of it's reincarnation. However during the trial runs I spent more time swearing at than working on it. In the end I dumped probably 70 Percent of it's redesign and just took most of the original version, heavily reorganized and split it up. At the risk of sounding arrogant; I have already received several compliments about it so I think I must be on the right track. My next photos to add will hopefull be a little more creative and cover more of the interior. I am also looking for additional ZX2s in dealers lots to take photos of.
Thanks Again...
The only reason I threw the Z24 Cavalier into the mix is because so many people try to compare the Cavalier Z24 to the ZX2. In truth given it's base price point the Z24 should not be there. From what I have been able to gather with my experiences, and those of others the Z24 seems to cruise in from a low of mid 15k, to one instance where I heard of someone paying a whopping, and totaly ridiculous 21K.