This car attracts a lot of attention, and unfortunately some of it will be negative. This is just one of the reasons I won't purchase this car until I own a house with a garage to put it in.

It sounds personal. I don't think it's because of the car by itself. The dash cam idea is solid (Provided they don't break in and steal it). A car alarm with a proximity sensor would be nice too. I plan on adding one to my car once it comes in.

As for the .45 advice, I'm not sure what your laws are up in NY. But even in Florida, you can't shoot someone for messing with your car (Unless you're in it and they are trying to gain entry).

But I think it's someone who is targeting you specifically or someone else, but they think your car is the other person's. My current car draws a lot of attention. More than the FR-S will likely draw for me, I'm sure. But I haven't had to deal with vandalism like that. So it's not the car.


Good luck.

Man I feel for you guys that live in the city and have to park on the street. I don't know if I'd even bother with a nice car if I had to live like that.

Makes me really appreciate my rural living. My car is in the garage anyway but here we have wildlife that can mess you car...raccons, squirrels, mice and so on.

Man that's rough. I work on LI but frequently commute to Manhattan for jobs. Luckily I get reimbursed for my travel so I get to park in garages. You run the risk of people joyriding (rare imo) but it's safer than streetside parking I think.

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Where in manhattan? I work downtown but only drive out occasionally I haven't had issues yet parking in the city but Ive only parked downtown ish ctown/tribeca.

city driving and parking is a constant headache and worry... Now I feel like I should be worrying more about what streets I park

I've never had to park in the city yet but when I do, I'm more worried about the the bumper to bumper parking.

I saw an argento FRS on the Bronx River Parkway a few weeks ago. Was that you Cgrey?

hey EnCity, what part of queens you from. Did you get your firestorm at Queensboro? They had a firestorm there and that was the first and only time I've seen the Red so far.

Wow, awesome! Do you know how long the recording would last before it starts deleting? Just in case someone decides to KEY my car in the night, I don't want the camera to record over it.


Just noticed the "Parking Mode" function. Super cool! I think I might get this one too! :w00t:

Honestly, my .45 comment was a joke. Please do not kill anyone based on my comment!

Secondly, your comment about Florida is laughable. This is the state where you can kill someone FOR ANY REASON as long as you "feel threatened". Aka Zimmerman...ugh.

Viper Alarms come with a blue LED, that's probably what that car has. A good alarm w/ a 2-way pager, tilt sensor, and proximity sensor would do more than the camera imo. What's the camera good for? The police will NOT do anything. I can guarantee that. So that leaves it up to you... Do you want to confront this guy? If not, then skip the camera. If so, then be careful.

Wow, that sucks Matt! Where did this happen?

Florida is a Stand Your Ground state, just like Arizona. I love our gun laws. Zimmerman should not be using Stand Your Ground as a defense, but that's a topic for another thread.

Really? If I know who the guy is and I tell the cops, they won't do anything? I hope that's not really the case

What's to stop anyone from doing this then? What will the alarm do?

He's the guy that put the deposit down right before you and you got your car first.

Not from queens. Bought in manhattan.
From SI.

In Toronto, you get arrested for protecting your property or if you apprehend a drug addict who's been stealing from your store repeatedly.
Just ask David Chen.

Maybe in Canada the police care, but not here in the US. Especially a place like NYC. It's a mixture of having way more important stuff to do, and just straight up not caring.

The alarm will scare the vandal off. Especially if you make your presence known every time the alarm goes off.

I wasnt keeping very good track of the car, so it could have happened Friday night or Saturday sometime during the day. It was either starbucks on camelback @ 16th oooor somewhere in oldtown snobsdale. Im thinking most likely starbucks saturday morning though since its one of the few times I parked the car in an open lot, during the day, next to other cars, out my eyesight for atleast 45 minutes.
Its been too hot and Ive been too lazy to try my hand at repairing it. The subaru paint pen looks very easy to use, though.

I was gonna proceed thusly:
- tape off area
- wash thoroughly
- strip wax/etc
- IPA rub down
- wear gloves
- go to work with increasingly more abrasive compounds (clearcoat only though) to minimize the clearcoat damage (hand only, no orbital)
- after the clear coat only scratches have been buffed out, fill in deep color scratches with paint pen
- use my nifty scratch repair compound to smooth out the paint pen after its dry
- more hand buffing/finishing
- check it under some briiiight lighting
- cleaner/polish/sealant/wax then check the reflection again and see how I did

If all that fails, fuck it the car is going off to a paint correction specialist for all work just short of a full repaint.

That sucks. I guess there are just always going to be haters who have no respect for other people's belongings.

I know how you feel, as when I got my first Evo right when I had finished college, all sorts of stuff happened. When I lived in Newport Beach, I remember somebody drew a swastika on my hood (but just with their finger on the moisture generated at night/early morning, so it just rinsed off and wasn't anything that I really cared about), and when I moved to Irvine for a short time, I remember going out to my car in the morning and seeing soda spilled on it, and another time, I could tell that someone had pissed along the driver's side of the car (though to this day I'm 90% sure it was done by a guy whose girlfriend I had slept with, and ironically he was a WRX owner).

Drop top baby Drop top.

The Zimmerman thing is a highly political media circus and not typical of a standard self defense scenario. So I won't even bother discussing that whole train wreck. Contrary to that news story, it's not easy to just walk around shooting people.

this is relevant to my interests since I visit the city frequently, and I usually park in the 20's or by 125th street


Uh, if you can't tell the difference here, your car could easily be mistaken for a regular Mazda 3.

There is no mistaking an FR-S.

Ever think of using a car cover when parking overnight?
Out of sight out of mind for the most part.

That's not true at all.

You have to feel that your life or someone elses is in mortal danger, not just "that guy scared me". There are cases where people have tried to use the Stand your Ground defense and it's failed, because it was clearly outside the requirements. IMO Zimmerman's case is not covered under Stand Your Ground either. Right now he's charged with 2nd Degree Murder and honestly I think that's a stretch. They should have gone for manslaughter as they have in similar cases (in which Stand Your Ground immunity claims have been denied btw, as I expect it will be in the Zimmerman case).

However, if someone does break into my house at 4AM I'm not going to have a conversation with them to see what their intentions are. That would be a stand your ground case (assuming the person wasn't trying to run out of your house when you woke up). Before that people got SUED (or worse) in Florida for defending themselves in their own home.

Everyone needs to focus on facts that come out in the Zimmerman case and get over the Stand Your Ground law.

Man that sucks. I'd bet it was Old Town on Friday night though. Lots of drunk morons down there.

I agree wholeheartedly.

True, but I also never had trouble with my RX8 or IS300, both of which were attention grabbers in their day. I was just trying to determine if people are really so bad about this car or if there's something being done that might be agitating the pro-vandalism crowd (not that it takes much but I figured I'd ask).

Stay up on the news my friend, it was all decided on the storeowners behalf in the end :)

As regards to the "Stand Your Ground" law, I'll leave debate of such to a gun owners forum!

I'm concerned about this as well, but for a different reason. I don't live in a city, but instead a subdivision. A ton of little kids live on my street and the garage is occupied, as well as the top of the driveway, so I have to park at the bottom of the driveway near the sidewalk. I dread parking the FR-S in this spot, but I have no choice. These kids will end up being the death of me >_>

I live in flushing, in a pretty decent neighborhood, but it's street parking and we know how tight those streets can be:thumbdown:

On a side note, I saw a black frs or brz on Horace Harding expwy around 6pm today when I was on the bus:thumbup:

I'll have to park similarly, and I'm not looking forward to it either.

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Some c0c< spit on my car tonight.

Sorry to hear that hope you catch the bastards :mad0260:

People that do this when caught the punishment needs to be that you get to tie them to the back of the car on a 10ft rope while you get one free run around your local drift track :burnrubber:

Chelsea area

Nope! Haven't been on that parkway in a while, did drive up and down the hutch last week though.

It depends on the card size but in parking mode it will only record when it senses movement or shock so it won't fill the card or run your battery down.

I think that might have been me. Was it by the junction boulevard exit?

You park on the street in flushing!?!? You're not talking about Main Street flushing right? that's just crazy... I parked out by st. marks last night and realized I had a tight spot for two. I decided to park right in the middle to take up both parking spots. You never know if an SUV is gonna try to fit in to a tight spot and they wouldn't even know they hit you. So I can see a lot of douchebag parking coming from me in the near future. :paddle:

My previous car, 2012 scion tc was keyed the week before Christmas in a mall parking lot (parked far away) I don't even think it was really an attention grabber. I assumed because "it's a scion". I didn't do anything to grab attention on my part. Just figured haters were around :/ ( nice long door to front fender key)

So still weary about having my frs for these kinds of idiots which unfortunately have struck cgreys car for no apparent reason

wow, I never had a problem with cigarette buds before or stickers.. that really sucks man, good luck in the future

if lordtakuban is right and I was in your position, the only solution would be revenge

No idea what you're talking about. I'm assuming something goin' on up there in Canadia Land?

That just gets more attention. I'd rather take the risk of someone being careless over someone intentionally damaging my car for parking like an idiot.

So there may be an added benefit of rebadging it Toyota after all! ;)

I saw it passing the intersection of main st going towards manhattan direction

and hell no not main st lol, too many people that can't park for shit, but I live in one of the side streets off main st, near john bowne hs

It's not the car.... It's what AMERICA has become...