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Keep focused on the big picture, house etc, that's what's really important not the car. Finally, depressing thought, you could wind up getting a new car and a week later be involved in anohter accident due ot ashitty driver so if taht happened again to your Z, you'd be less upset than if it happened to your new car... |
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Something that comes to mind w/ "better balance & handling" is an E90/92 BMW M3. Same front-engine/RWD layout, but with a 4.0 liter V8. The coupe version has that cool carbon=fiber roof to 'lower the center of gravity' :driving:
However, a 2008 example will cost a bit more than your $35k budget. . . closer to $45k. |
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I'm sure it will turn out well tho, seems like that bodyshop is decent. There'll be a plethora of really good cars coming out within the next 3 years or so so when your's is paid off, you'll have lots of options. |
Second Davey trying an EPS NSX before giving up on EPS :)
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Car has not been touched, yet. Insurance company's adjustor is saying that I wrecked my own car (even though insurance and their insured have formally accepted responsibility) and that the rims on the right side were already destroyed/curbed to **** (even though the body shop it's at now, the RIGHT one, says metal is flaking off of the curbing and it's definitely fresh).
I'm still in a rental. No work has happened yet. I'm going to spill as much metaphorical blood as I can via my lawyer. BTW, here is a pic of his toy, my lawyer is a bit of a car enthusiast himself: http://i46.tinypic.com/10di87p.jpg |
Your lawyer is from Jersey.
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Lotus depreciate fast everywhere. The car is not reliable, not practical, not super fast and not affordable. The whole idea of lightweight, great handling BS wears out pretty quickly unless you spend a lot of time at the track
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It's a toyota, how is it not reliable? |
The engine is from Toyota and it is reliable. Everything else isn't.
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That's a big plus; a Lotus having a Toyota drive-train/engine. The best in power, refinement, & reliability.
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I wouldn't ever put a Lotus in my "Cars to own list." But that's just me. |
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Targa tops are more my taste. |
Anyway, the car is FINALLY being worked on. It took a month for the insurance company to agree to replace my rims (factory, curbed to ****), and to agree to use OEM parts 100%. I just bought 4 Michelin PSS tires, as well. I am really, really hoping that she looks and drives like new, because after looking and looking, nothing appeals to me. I want the 2015GT, or the 2017 RX7, or the BRZ STi, after they cave and admit that they can fit a Turbo in there and a nicer interior, but I don't lust for anything currently sub $40K or so on the market today.
On a side note, the Kia and I have bonded. Optima isn't a bad car at all for a cheap family sedan. I like the large trunk and have threatened numerous people with such. With the 370Z, they never took me serious. With the Kia, they know they would fit. |
Kia Optima's are really nice. A much more respectable design for an enthusiast to be forced to drive around in a family sedan than many of the current designs. :tup:
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Allegedly, I am to pick my car up today. I bought Michelin PSS's in the mean-time and they will be on the car when I pick it up.
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Good luck with that... Hope they did a good job.
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Picked my car up.
-I noted some SMALL amounts of trash near the edges of a couple of panels, but otherwise the paint and matching was flawless. This is very minor, literally one pebble-ding and "more damage" would be present than that. I have seen new cars with similar on show-room floors (C6 'vette). -Body panel alignment is excellent except for one side of the rear-bumper which they readily agreed to fix this Tuesday. -One TPMS sensor is dead. It was new, and arrived that way, and none were available to replace it with in this area. It will be replaced at the same time the bumper is adjusted. -Just looking at the car, the front tires/rims look to have more camber to them than I remember, and the car pushes a lot less in corners than I remember (A product of driving a Kia Optima for a month?). I really like how it feels, and I think it feels a lot more neutral than I remember it, again, maybe just in my head. Whatever the case, it reminds me a little of my old Z06. The front end feels "lighter" than I recall and weights up nicely in a corner and doesn't push. I like it. -The Michelin PSS tires are what this car should have come with. Potenza's are pure junk compared to these. Very pleased. Maybe that's also part of the handling improvements, I bet so. Very good tire. -Unless I discover something horrible, I'm keeping my 370. They replaced everything with OEM Nissan parts, and the paint job matches flawlessly as best I can tell, it would be stupid to flip the car 1 year into ownership when I don't have any equity in it and am trying to move later this year. |
Welcome to the PSS club. They make everything better.
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I had to Google it as I was thinking about one for a track car...................wow there is a lot of feed back about S2000's not having feedback! lol |
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It doesn't take a lot of money to make handling excellent. You just don't listen to us. lol |
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Glad you are happy with the repairs!
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Well, the brakes are messed up again. I doubt the wreck caused it as much as me just driving the car every day and getting used to it as it progressed and then being out of it for over a month, I can immediately tell after my first abrupt slowing from highway speeds that the rotors are warped again. I'm going to have Nissan just replace it. They turned it down a LOT last time to get all the warp out of it. I have literally never seen a rotor this pathetic. That's the one thing I do keep missing about my 'vette. It was made to stand up to AT LEAST daily driving duties :(
*sigh* Glad to have her back, but annoyed at the constant piddly repairs that this thing has to have to remain enjoyable. Yes, I'm keeping it, but no, I'll never subject myself to another Nissan product. WAY! too maintenance intensive. Definitely getting extended warranty on this car. I recommend it to everyone who owns one of these. I'm still waiting for my power-steering to go out. Groans like some of the old donks I see on the bad side of town, but Nissan says "Normal". Oh, well, wait until it goes TU and have it replaced. *sigh*. Yeah, frustrated. Sucks. Hate all the corners Nissan cut on such a beautiful vehicle. |
Rotors rarely warp, it's pad deposits.
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The key is to bed your pads in properly. If you are lucky, you might be able to remove them by running the brakes really hard and basically re-bed them. You have to either smell the brakes or fade the brakes to a point where you don't have a pedal anymore.
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Had my 2011 sport package Z for a little over a year and have no idea what the heck you're talking about as far as rotors warping. Have had to stomp on the brakes more than enough living in southern california and never had any problems with the brakes afterwards. |
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