Toyota says 16,000km and Subaru is 10,000km if I'm not mistaken.

I plan to stick with 10k intervals. Especially considering the winter conditions the car sees along with extra idle time in the mornings.

Not sure what that website is. I live near burlington and know of 3-4 scrap yards around... I usually just call them directly.

I saw one on the top of the crush pile driving by a yard. Don't think anything on it was much good anymore though!

Since warranty ran out I do mine at about 20,000K. Due to the nature of my all highway driving even at 20K it comes out looking like new. Not a hope I would do that long if I pushed it or did stop and go.

I agree with you. But.... if you could disconnect or remove the TC/VSC buttons without them being knowledgeable enough to work around it, it isn't a bad car at all. I know I would be dead if my first car was a Twin or any RWD with LSD for that matter. I was a total nutjob (well I still am) in a car when I was younger. A bunch of my racing friends got into sport bikes for a while and they all begged me to get one. I knew for sure I didn't have the self control to stay alive on a bike. I promised myself I would never buy a bike and I stand by that to this day. Hahaha. But I would really love to have a sport bike.

With the value of land here in the bay area we don't have many large yards anymore, and the pick and pull swaps out cars pretty quick. They have a website where you can check their current inventory in their bay area locations.

haha, always a love hate relationship with finding a good part from a wrecked car... don't like seeing them like that but do like taking the parts lol.

Between 1981 and 1984 I daily drove a 1958 Chev wagon
Between 2000 and 2003 I daily drove a 1958 Ford Custom 300 tudor.


I was the king of finding parts in the wreckers! It was surprising just how many of both were still sitting out in the back 40 of some of the local yards. Unfortunately it is a resource that is fast drying up as communities grow into the areas where yards were and they disappear forever.

From 2000 to 2005 my DD was a 1970 Jeep J-3000 Gladiator. I was a regular at the pick n pull. I was amazed how quickly i found all the original parts to upgrade the manual steering and brakes to power. Since then a lot of the yards are now housing.

The dumbest things I did in a car were in a Saturn SL1. The less I cared about the car, the dumber the risks I took.

EXACTLY!

Still not necessary. Oil required for the Twins is super thin and synthetic,so it's made to last longer than your common 10w30.If you split the difference,at 13000km,which is just over 8k miles,I'm 99.999% sure it's safe to go 7500 without a change.I'm also pretty sure the engineers wouldn't recommend going that long without changing unless they were absolutely sure as well,which would be backed up by extensive testing.

Again,just check it to see. 4k mile after a change and it will still look pretty clean.I've noticed that it doesn't even start to get "dark" until after around 6k+ mile,and even then,it's just a little darker and not necessarily dirty looking.

Bought my car in 2015 and have only changed my oil three times,soon to be my fourth. I love not having to change my oil so often anymore.

My oil cost (roughly) $30 for 6 quarts at Walmart. hitting 4500-5k takes me a few months regardless and my OEM Subie Black filter is $7 on amazon.

not a big deal to me, not really a waste in my eyes to consistently have clean oil in my car.

my local pick-n-pull's never have stocked anything newer then 2008. there was an '08 mustang once. it was so stripped down, parts of the unibody were missing...

you mean removing like removing the ability to turn them off? that makes me :brokenheart: I say kids wanna drift... take em to the track and let them go ahead... once they (probably) violently spin out the first couple of times they will understand the implications of doing this on public roads.

This. That's also why I support it as a car choice for teenagers.


1. If you're going to own a lot of RWD cars later on in life, you might as well learn on one, and learn how to properly control it.


2. Decent on gas, not so overpowered that it is easy to lose control, reliable and very simplistic so things are unlikely to break very often. In other words, safe and practical.


Really the only downside is insurance is probably outrageous because of all the dummies that crash them.

It wasn't stripped down that was how it arrived!

Yep, I had a Saturn SL. I loved that car because no matter what I backed into, it wouldn't dent - :happyanim:

While I have you on the line there @finch1750 , do you know of a place to eat up in Loche, called Al the Wop's? Have you eaten there?

When I was roaming around the delta, back in the day, I always made it a point to stop in there and have a steak and peanut butter on toast.


Have I asked you this before ?? Seriously ??


:confused0068:


humfrz

Yep, when I was a kid back in Ohio, I would spend hours roaming around old country junk yards - just to look at the old cars - :)

Anyone else do that - or was I just weird?


humfrz

I'm in the 'a kids going to behave better in a car they care more about' camp, in case anyone is keeping score.

I wanted to, but I wasn't allowed to. Welcome to the 90s.

All the time.

That's a shame you missed that childhood experience.

I was fortunate to have several old time junk yards within the range of my Cushman motor scooter. I got to know the old coots who "managed" them. I would ask them if I could go roam around in their junk yard in trade for me doing some chores that they needed help with, like cleaning out a chicken/hog house or moving some hay.

When I was 14, I got my first car. Then the junkyards became my main source of parts (like @Tcoat mentioned). Now, to pay for the parts, I would have to work quite a bit longer. Sometimes, all I had to do was pull up and have a seat on a bucket,under a shade tree and listen to several "back-in-the-day" stories.

Now, I'm too damn lazy to change my own oil - :sigh:


humfrz

At the rate my father and brother's were dragging home old cars my mother thought our place WAS a "country junk yard".
At one point there were both a 1935 and a 1936 La Salle sedan parts cars at the very back of the lot. There was a 1953 Jowett Javelin parts car, a 1956 Pontiac 2 door hard top (with front end damage) hot rod project behind the rear garage and a 1931 Durant four door sedan parts car on the east side of the rear garage. A 1939 La Salle two door businessman's coupe restoration project sat behind our house as did my oldest brother's 1954 Jowett Javelin and my other brother's 1947 Austin A-40. (A perfectly good running car he drove home and then ripped the running gear out of to put into his 1947 MG TC that had been butchered.) Dad's 1960 Buick Invicta four door hard top sat in front of west garage door. His 1965 Corvair Corsa 180 Turbo was always packed between the houses.
The two stage garage consisted of a large 1 1/2 storey over sized two car front with a five car storage addition behind it. The front garage was home to the 1934 La Salle convertible coupe, a Hall Scott four cylinder engine out of a post WW1 JN4 Jenny biplane, a 193? Scott Flying Squirrel 500cc twin cylinder, liquid cooled two-stroke motorcycle and a 1936 Cord 810 Westchester sedan. In the back was a 1931 Cadillac V16 7 passenger town sedan, a 1932 Frontenac four door sedan, 1938 Cadillac 60 Special sedan, a 1939 La Salle four door sedan and my oldest brother's 1965 Corvette coupe.


Yes, looking in junk yards was a thing!
Motor City Auto Parts, (later renamed Dom's) was just a 15 minute drive from my parent's house.


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UPDATE:
Thank you again to everyone but the final verdict is that my parents are willing to give me 2000$ as a down payment, as long as I get a Subaru. They really don't feel comfortable with an FRS even though literally everyone is saying that FRS/BRZ are the same exact cars.
TY again everyone! I feel so welcomed from the ft86 community already haha :p

Edit:
Lots of people are asking about a bit about me so here it goes:

I (M 20) am a uni student. I currently have a Mazda 3 2014 GS auto, but my family needs another car and I said why not give this amazing car to my sister and get myself an even cooler one :)
My mom also specifically wanted a "cool" looking car since we have had boring cars all for the most of our life. IMO the FRS/BRZ/86 is the best bang for buck "least boring" car I could find, so that's why we want it
Hope that clears things up. Feel free to ask if y'all have any more questions :)

Wait, thought you had cash? Sounds like your parents are buying you a car, so yes, get what they want you to get.

idk what a ppt is XD

My parents are giving me 2000$ to help me out but the other 150000$ is gonna be me XD

edit: 15 000$ not 150 000$

WOW! You were lucky, all you had to do was walk out the door to have fun - :happyanim:


humfrz

With 152k I might consider a Ferrari, or a down payment on a house.

So a subaru, get the BRZ then.

HAHA good one. I wish I had that money LOL

also mb for typo

Just wait until you test drive. Boring will never cross your mind.

Well, after you saying that, I would recommend you get a BRZ - :thumbsup:

Stay focused on your studies.


humfrz

I suspect he is referring to a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (file format).


humfrz

i though that too. but idk if it was a joke or something related to the forum that i haven't learned about yet

edit: ye im a moron. i just got the joke haha

For some reason when I first read his post I read it as PPI as in a pre-purchase inspection. Funny how the brain makes assumptions based on context when not reading closely.

PPT Hahaha

Who do you think you're kidding - you would most likely blow it on something like this - :eyebulge:


humfrz

You're alright there, omadab - :thumbsup:

Presentations over the years went like this:

winging it > chalk boards > transparencies > power point > laser light shows > holograms > winging it.

(I'm missing one - what is it?)


humfrz

Yep, I live that every day - trying to figure out what my 2.5 year old granddaughter wants - :(


humfrz

Reminds me of the only time I got to drive a real Cobra. Back in the 80's, when I was running autox, this guy had a 289 track only car. He let me do a run with it. What a monster. You really had to man handle that thing.

If I had to spend that kind of money on a car, I would probably get an R8.