- 6,820
- Vero Beach, FL
- dice1998
4 month update:
I have done nothing to the car since my post above. I did take the car AutoXing in Palm Beach International and it was really fun in the car:
With living with the car, I did notice some glaring small things that really bug me:
I really don't want to live with this car for much longer. It drives great and I appreciate it but I don't love it like I did my Lexus. If it was a 135i, maybe I could live with it because the aftermarket base is there instead of the 128 but, at this moment, I'm heavily leaning towards the Aussie-Merican police car or a Camaro SS (5th gen 2SS so I get the parking sensors and backup camera and a Manual Transmission because LS3).
Maybe when this car is paid off in November/December, things will be different, only time will tell.
Or I'm out of the car at the end of this month/next month.
I have done nothing to the car since my post above. I did take the car AutoXing in Palm Beach International and it was really fun in the car:
![69669877_10217244873647626_3384137635986407424_o.jpg](/forum/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fscontent.fmia1-1.fna.fbcdn.net%2Fv%2Ft1.0-9%2F69669877_10217244873647626_3384137635986407424_o.jpg%3F_nc_cat%3D107%26_nc_oc%3DAQkV6S2RTL9SJUPNKU_FV2JkkYOsdBp_Cr284yYyAr_pmULbhEBMk8C2LLFfbG6ThS8%26_nc_ht%3Dscontent.fmia1-1.fna%26oh%3D5d8110c4d0f091666f0fdc839264df87%26oe%3D5E380D53&hash=d1c3abf3cdcffd3a41010d637b567cec)
With living with the car, I did notice some glaring small things that really bug me:
- There are two cup holders, one of which is larger due to the shape of the center console. The other one is unusable for any bottles or cups and is usually hidden under the center arm rest.
- There is nowhere to store my phone when it's plugged in and I'm using it for music. The cup holders are too small for it and the center cubby hole is also too small and thus the phone sticks out and when I shift the car into park or reverse, the lever slams the bottom of the phone.
- Only the passenger-side mirror tilts down - the Lexus spoiled me.
- The transmission, while a very nice GM transmission, is very lurchy from cold start.
- That exhaust butterfly valve slamming open or closed scares me because that's definitely a failure part
- If I get a new phone with no Aux port, i'm kind of screwed because there's no way to use USB music - an issue I would have with the Lexus but at least the aftermarket unit would fit in the same screen space as the factory screen and not be an addon to the top of the dashboard as I've seen in the aftermarket market for my car that doesn't have the iDrive screen.
- I thought with a smaller car and a big engine, my fuel economy would be better. It's not. It's about the same.
- At higher RPM's something, which I'm assuming is the power steering or water pump, whines like a supercharger.
- Lack of parking sensors/backup camera makes me sad panda when parking. As small of a car it is, these drivers here are terrible at parallel parking so it would be nice to have.
- The emergency brake doesn't work (this is my fault
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I really don't want to live with this car for much longer. It drives great and I appreciate it but I don't love it like I did my Lexus. If it was a 135i, maybe I could live with it because the aftermarket base is there instead of the 128 but, at this moment, I'm heavily leaning towards the Aussie-Merican police car or a Camaro SS (5th gen 2SS so I get the parking sensors and backup camera and a Manual Transmission because LS3).
Maybe when this car is paid off in November/December, things will be different, only time will tell.
Or I'm out of the car at the end of this month/next month.