Originally Posted by xFury (Post 2427527)

Hey everyone. I am interested in trading in my Corolla for a FR-S. This is gonna be my first manual car also.

I was looking over the Service and Protection stuff on the website, and was wondering if any of those are worth the money, beside GAP, since I'm gonna get it regardless. I don't live in a place where I have a garage also, if that helps. So DIY might be limited. And no prior DIY or general car knowledge and never drove stick shift before.

What are the opinion on

Vehicle Service Agreement
and
Scion Service Boost Plus

Is it worth it?

Thanks!

Originally Posted by humfrz (Post 2427656)

HELLO @xFuryThe FR-S (unmolested) has shown to be a fairly reliable vehicle and if you take care of it, with regular maintenance, it will take care of you.


humfrz

Originally Posted by Bonburner (Post 2427675)

congrats on such a fun car and surprisingly good storage room



I don't know about the reliable part to be honest .. i feel like this car has a lot more problems than i had originally anticipated

Originally Posted by humfrz (Post 2427824)

Well, I surmised that xFury sounded like the kind of guy who is gentle on a car and wouldn't track it much or get into power mods or tuning.

I kind of get the idea, from this forum at least, that most folks have dependability "challenges" because they have messed with the car.

However, the only thing I know for sure is that my FR-S has been trouble free for the last 2 years and 15,000 miles .... :)


humfrz

Originally Posted by Bonburner (Post 2427848)

ive never tracked my vehicle or any real mods (drop in filter lol) and ive seen a fair share of problems already
ive had this car since 2012 June and I still remember all the silly shenanigans ..
from missing grommets,annoying weather strips visible on our windows, rusting between the black accent (between the glass) and the metal, leaky seals in lights (replaced in warranty), crickets (now deemed normal?), coolant evaporating, gears grinding tranny (ive had mine replaced warranty at 15k), and now im gettin ignition coils at high rpm shifts 6-7k at 37k miles. etc

not to mention the horror stories like steering wheel losing power while driving on the freeways, blown motors (granted Many are from FI, a few were still NA), bad rods, etc. :/



but its still an interesting car .. i have a hard time seeing my car go beyond 150k miles

Originally Posted by jawn (Post 2427873)

It's all relative. I can live with some of these fit and finish issues. My last car ate 3 water pumps, had the pressure plate fail, and the windows would randomly stop working in its first 30K miles. All of those were considered normal-ish problems for that model.

Fingers crossed, my BRZ should be less interesting in comparison.

Originally Posted by Bonburner (Post 2427897)

did they ever fix the passenger's window not scrolling down/up? it happens like 5/10% of the time for me