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ex1z7,Apr 8 2007, 06:31 PM Wrote:Buy a house ? Some of you people are mental..

Think about it, whatever job you have now that's helping you with these mods.. You may not have next month, 2 months, 4 years from now.. What happens when you have 1k in bills to pay for a month and lose the job? You lose the house.. What happens when you lose your job and have a boosted Focus? Take the insurance off and park it, and ride the bus till you get a job..

Buy a house.. What the f***, yeah, sure, it's a good business move if you don't want to have fun, or, you know, have something you'll NEVER own..

Have fun with your Focus dude, the "but it's a cheap car.." argument is also ridiculous, "Oh it's just a Honda.." Potentially with 500 hp that can smoke near anything.. Yeah.. "Oh it's just a Mustang" but with less money overall into it, it can beat your 100,000 dollar car.. "Oh it's just a viper.." Sorry it isn't a McLaren F1..

It's just a WRX.. it's just an EVO..

Isn't modifying what you have, what you like, what you enjoy.. the hole point of being an enthusiast? Isn't making something your own - be that putting a big stereo, nice rims, a body kit, nice paint job.. Or even just taking great care of your current paint job.. What being a true enthusiast is all about?

Come on guys, sometimes these cars are more to people than commuting pieces of metal, sometimes they're things we enjoy sinking money into.. Things we enjoy spending 6 hours buffing, polishing, waxing..

To certain people, it isn't about destination to destination, it's the ride in between..
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I had you pegged as a smart kid till I read this s***. Now I'm really wondering how wrong I was.

I hope you're planning on renting for the rest of your life, giving your landlord more cash than he knows what to do with and never really "owning" anything. When retirement comes knocking, a lot of us will just sit back in the houses we own and do whatever the hell we want. Those renting into retirement will have WAY higher monthly expenses than someone who owns their own home.

I did the decent customization thing on the last car... and I loved doing it. I also did it on the ridiculously cheap, with the help of more than a few folks from here. The point we're making is that when that motor blows, with your $6000+ of parts in it... it's gone. Finito. Done. That $6000 goes a long way towards a place of your own in Northern Ontario, where you can sit and do s*** to your car(s) for as long as you want.

I rented through the majority of my 20s. It sucked - big-time. My landlord had over $2000/mo coming in on a house that I knew he was done paying for. We were financing his toys, his vacations and anything else that needed cash. He worked 40 hours / week on top of that and so does his wife. What does he get at the end of the year? Whatever he wants. What did we get? "Thanks for being good tenants". Hell, one month's rent from all of us paid the property taxes for the year.

I'll be the first to admit that I wish I had listened to family years ago and gone to college / uni right after high school. But I didn't. I took 6 years off to work and f*** around. It cost me. I made sure that as soon as we could afford to buy a house, responsibly, we did. We're earning equity. We're also trying (in vain, I see) to educate this fella they way others all tried to educate us at one time or another - mod to a point, but doing excessive s*** on a car that you likely won't own for long enough anyways is pointless.

Could I have turbo'ed the SPI? Yup. Lentech? Yup. Why didn't I? WASTE OF CASH.

Some guys have fab/install skills here and that works to their favour for F/I. Saves them big dough. Some collect parts for years (like Nate) so that the blow is softened. All of this makes sense. What we're saying is the car's already boosted. Save some cash and do some fiscally-smart stuff now... then maybe do some more crazy s*** later. ZX3TUNR anyone (Jay)?

I've already thought about turboing the Duratec next year. Will I? Not likely.

Wait, I've got it. He needs to get married. Problem solved. Even if his wife supports modding (as mine does), you've still got to prove it's a good idea first. Good luck with that.

EDIT - apparently I shifted targets going through my rant. It applies equally to both - smart modding is a good idea, buying a house after playing for a bit is a better idea.