Your Christmas wish for under $100

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I honestly don't want anything for christmas. I mean, a house/gallardo or something would be cool, but that's not being realistic, etc. For $100? nothing. Really not for any price, short of the house, supercar, etc.

My Mom is buying me a microwave that I told her repeatedly I could buy for myself if I wanted it, but mine works just fine. She is still buying it and sends me e-mails like "The confirmation # for the microwave you don't want is..."

I really just hate christmas, to be honest. It's an over-hyped excuse to get drunk off eggnog. There are better beverage choices, and I don't need excuses when I want to.

If someone held a gun to my head and forced me to tell them what to get me for $100, it would be a $100 gift credit-card type deal. That way I could just buy what I normally buy, gas, food, etc. and save that $100 for the car I am saving up for.

phelan

Wow. G20s are that cheap now?

I kid, I kid.

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kenchan

the seller needs to pay $100 for someone to take it.

HKYStormFront

mine's just a hair over $100 at $110, a 1TB external hard drive on newegg with an ethernet port. i wanna plug it into my router so i can access my torrented tv shows on the xbox in the living room now that the desktop is no longer in there

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09 Pontiac G8 GXP // M6 // Sunroof // Tint... For now

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Careful. I was wishing my computer were a touch faster (Pavilion 2.2 from 2008) and all of a sudden the motherboard died and I had to go drop $1K on a new setup to run the stuff I want to run.

HKYStormFront

what exactly do i need to be "careful" about?

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phelan

You might drop your external hd in the toilet while you're trying to figure out what to watch while you take a dump. Then you lose all your tv shows.

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HKYStormFront

nah it'd stay behind my desktop chillin' permanently... my friend andy has this setup at his house and it's great to watch tv shows this way. that's what i'm looking for...

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09 Pontiac G8 GXP // M6 // Sunroof // Tint... For now

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Seems like when you want something, you sometimes get more than you bargained for. I wanted a slight upgrade. I got a melt-down.

SR20 is a great engine. I was just stunned to see the cap/rotor under there considering my first car was a 93' crown vic ex cop-car and it didn't have that setup still.

yes, the CV boots are wear-items. I agree with you. Ticks me off that they both broke 5K miles after I bought the car, though, lol.

I haven't been around very long I guess, but I have never had a car break the radiator or motor-mounts randomly before, though. Also, almost every rubber bushing on the car has had to be replaced. That's new to me also.

On the plus-side, the accessories ALL work, ALL the time.

I meant it's a good value. I live small in areas I don't care about, such as my daily driver, etc. so that I can afford things like a Z06. I did not mean 60K was cheap, but for what you are getting, it's cheap. Will know in a month or so if my living somewhat frugal has allowed me to save up and roll one

HKYStormFront

forgot to mention i was a computer tech for a while, too (and am now a computer programmer)... trust me, i got this

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09 Pontiac G8 GXP // M6 // Sunroof // Tint... For now

Jeffblue

so, just to confirm, you are complaining about the reliability a 10 year old daily driver, that you purchased used?

HKYStormFront

sounds like you have had unusually bad luck with the car but it also sounds like you've unfairly judged all nissans based on that one car which is pretty lame

also bear in mind the G20, while a decent car, was a nissan sentra (their cheapest car at the time) dressed up and leathered out... it was the entry level infiniti for years. i'm not trying to make excuses for it but there's plenty of civic's, corola's, etc out there that have had the same issues with motor mounts and radiators because the parts put in these cars are from the lowest bidders to keep costs down

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09 Pontiac G8 GXP // M6 // Sunroof // Tint... For now

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So, anyway, what's your fun-car?

I, too, would like something peppy like a little Z, for a DD, but cannot swing 2-notes right now. The G20 was easy to just pay for/insure. A newer mustang/Z/Challenger, etc. Not so much. So, I gotta have a boring DD.

I'm beginning to mirror that. I won't own another Infiniti or Nissan, for sure, after experiencing the build-quality they present. I dare say my 2001 GM was better made than this 2002 Infiniti. The car drives/rides great and I love the 7-disk and bose and power everything and black leather, it just breaks down way more than even my GM did.

HKYStormFront

"fancy" cars with lots of bells and whistles typically have more to go wrong, what's your "2001 GM" product?

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09 Pontiac G8 GXP // M6 // Sunroof // Tint... For now

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Actually, it's the meat and potatoes dying with this import. The motor-mounts. CV boots. Thermostat. Radiator cracked near the fill-neck. Ignition switch, etc. This is at 117K on the odometer and the car looks very pampered. Interior is flawless, etc.

Also, who the hell puts a cap/rotor distributor on a car in 2002? WTF!? Yeah, had to replace that, and am amazed I didn't get misfire codes as bad as the rotor looked. Must have a mean ignition system to bridge that gap, lol

All the accessories work flawlessly.

With the GM, the only thing that went out was the T/O bearing at 85K miles, the clutch hydraulics (master cyl.), and the rear-end. All about the same-time. Other than that, it was little-stuff, accessories, etc.