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Mr Eps Grand Master

Mr Eps

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(how is that twin door that only lets you open said doors 45deg Eps? )

seeing as you asked... it's black. leather. much faster and drives like a DREAM compared to my cefiro!!!!

i loved my ceffy don't get me wrong.. for a while there i was like "im gonna keep both cars and have one white four door and one black two door LOL OPPOSITES DAY"

but the moment i got back from bali... i jumped in the cefiro and drove to work. i got in.. the power steering was humming. it pulled to the left from a bent control arm.. the brakes were grinding after replacing the pads god knows how many times.. the passenger window was on and off with when it wanted to work. the doors felt like cheese. the tyres were badly worn with camber.. the rego was due soon..

and i was driving along tallying up the LCA i needed, the tyres, the brakes, the alignment, the steering rack etc... plus the coilovers were starting to give out..

and i realised that after six years of loyalty... i was just tired with it. it's all well and good to get waves from skyline and silvia owners who are like "YEAHHHH CEFFY SIKKUNNT"

but there gets to a point where it's simple self mutilation to own one as a daily driver..

like to own one that's a weekend drift car or to have one that's sitting in a garage while you build an engine for it etc... that's fun to have it as a fun car..

but when you use it to drive to and from work every day. to drive to the shops... to go to long haul road trips down south... etc etc... that's when you want a problem free car..

coincidentally.. it was this same week that after months of being on the market, i sold it...

...anybody here remember the ad?? hahaha... BEST. AD. EVER.

these days:

im 25. turning 26 this year...

give me a leather interior'd. invisible to cops.. cruise control having... digital climate control having.. working power windows having.. electric sunroof'd.. electric seated dual airbag car with EVERY modern safety feature that STILL has a huge turbo on it... that STILL gets 11km to the litre economy...

...give me that car ANYDAY!

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:wub:

still love you guys but.

Mr Eps Grand Master

Mr Eps

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i've had two "run ins" with the law...

i was once in northbridge.. cop car pulls up next to me... cop winds his window down and says "mate nice car! i used to have one of them back in the day but wasn't half as nice as that... look after it wont you!"

drove off

one other time got pulled over by two bike cops who said that i was doing 80 in a 60 zone... (i wasn't... and they didn't really contest that)

cop told me "wait in the car please"

walks around to the front... sees my HID lights... walks around to the other side.. sees my rims.. 18s front 19s back.. walks to back.. sees my IS F exhausts..

...comes back to me n goes.. "i never seen this kind of lexus before.. what is it?"

"uhh it's the SC officer"

"shit. looks nice.. is it new?"

"no officer. it's 16 years old"

"are those rims factory?"

"well yes and no.. they were a dealer option.. the first owner must've got them"

"they look really nice!"

"thanks"

"it's a pretty nice car... usually lexus's aren't sport but this is a nice one!"

"thankyou officer"

"well my partner's checked your dirivng history says you're clean... so just be careful wont you.. lots of crazy idiots out there"

...driving a soarer = awesome.

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toffy

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haha i'm only stirring 'trator' , you could have bought a jzxXX/x or c35 , atleast they have 4 doors :P , i have better stories with the laurel , but i can't post it on a public forum :ph34r: . sounds like your ceff just needed maintainence and the only things it would be missing is the 'safety features' :merli: . Vaguely the lca is $88 new , steering rack $1fiddy , wheel align $fiddy? , coilovers are a fair whack but , pending they could be rebuilt and a new caliper/hub (i'm assuming you had something bent there too to wear breaks early on the same side as the bent lca?) . you'll own onother 4d one day , i can tell :P

Mr Eps Grand Master

Mr Eps

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Yeah but you're a top bloke all day Nic.

:)

Toff you missed my point.... I know they were only ~100 fixes each but that all peters into nothingness when you simply fall out of love with the car regardless...

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toffy

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Yeah but you're a top bloke all day Nic.

:)

Toff you missed my point.... I know they were only ~100 fixes each but that all peters into nothingness when you simply fall out of love with the car regardless...

nah , i was just pointing out that it was an excuse :P , i know what it's like to just be sick of a car ... bit like a 7yr itch :ph34r:

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