Currently trying to determine if I should buy a new/used car. My tc is 15 years old - 2011 - and all things considered, doing quite well. It currently needs about $2000 worth of work done to it, and has 180,000 km / 112,000 miles on it. We have some upcoming job instability but not sure if it makes more sense to get a newer car to avoid upcoming repairs that will inevitably be more expensive, or keep the tC for a future of unknown repair requirements.

How did you decide it was time?

ETA: thanks for your feedback! Going to fix it up and let it ride out its golden years!

Original owner of a 2006 Scion TC with only 45k miles. Engine runs great, transmission needs some work, body needs a paint job. What is the best way to sell this car? How do I know if it's first gen? Not even sure what that means..lol.

The car is not bone stock. It has a subwoofer, cold air intake, and oem rims. Will it be reliable?

Really considering getting a first gen over second

I hear a lot about engines blowing and oil problems/ having to constantly check

How unreliable is it to get a used one with original motor/ engine

Getting rid of my old lights from the swap. Nothing’s broken just a little dirty. I believe they’re aftermarket but could be wrong. Clearcoat is peeling on the front, I re-did it once a year ago but probably didn’t do a great job.
They are free, just cover shipping. DM if interested!

My car for example :
My first car is a 2012 Scion tC, I wanted this car just to specifically mod it & make it a project car but also not ruin it in the making. I really do need help with what I should & shouldnt do, but I do have an idea of stuff I want to do. So please someone de-influence OR influence me !!! Feel free to give harsh advice, whatever.

- TRD exhaust or borla axe-back exhaust
- 2015-2021 black STI spoiler
- Lowering springs and lowering it about 1-1.5 inches
- Spec D headlights & taillights
- Black emblem in the back & debadge the front.
- Wrap the hood, roof, and trunk black

TLDR: need coil-over recommendations, 2012 TC2.

I have an daily-driver RS7.0 I bought about 6 months ago. Previous owner put new front struts in, brand unknown.

After about a month they went bad and started creaking really badly, so I about 3 months in I changed them out for Monroes because I got a discount at my job.

Went bad 2 weeks later. Drove on them for another 3-4 months before I couldn't take it anymore and threw it on a lift. Everything was good except the sway bar bushings and the end-links, which I replaced when swapped the Monroes out for KYB's last Friday... which already went bad.

Taking them apart, every single one of the shocks was defective.

I've had to do this job twice already and I'm sick of defective aftermarket garbage, but OEM's are over $900 to build my own (over $1K if I do TRD springs); so I'm considering just doing coil-overs for only a couple hundred more.

I hear the Racelands and the Maxpeedingrods suck (no surprise, given the price). My friend has D2's on his EG Civic, and another guy I know loves his BC's. I tried Teins on my DC2 and they sucked, had to immediately rip them out. FastScions has the K-Sports along with the Cusco strut bar, been considering those. What're ya'll running?

It had 46,000 when I bought it in 2018. Here’s to 100k more!