lightning_mcqueen
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Hello everyone,
I've signed up here a while ago, but this is my first post.
I've been a GEN3 T4R owner since 2005, a black 1997 4Runner SR5 V6, with 5 speed manual. I've always wanted one since the Gen2, and finally pulled trigger on buying it right after the divorce, because my ex kept both DDs, (Wrangler and Maxima) but I kept my toy JZA80 TT Supra.
As a rookie DYI'er, I've gotten a lot of help from posts on this site... oil change, fixing the stuck rear tail gate handle, spark plug change, power steering fluid change etc)
My 4Runner became our family car after I remarried and now with 3 kids.
With our family now needing 3rd row, (as kids are getting bigger) and with 180,000 miles on the clock, I'm faced with a decision... do I sell it and get what my wife wants? (used Lexus GX 470 with third row... or Honda Odyssey... or ???) Do we keep it, and do some serious modifications to it?
Right now, we have no idea, but space at home is limited and I have to get rid of something before getting a new car... but the 4Runner has been running flawlessly and I'd hate to get rid of it.
So here I am, aimlessly wondering around this site for any ideas (or signs?) of what I should do...
I love my truck, but looks like the below is the only picture I have on my PC. (I feel bad because I have million pics of my 'toys', Supra and 1986 Mustang)
It's going to be really hard to see this truck go, if we decide to get rid of it, because my family basically born in it and grew with it.
These are my 'toys'... again, one of these guys must go, if I keep the truck and add a newer family car.
And why 'lightning mcqueen'?
I took the Supra to the local Mustang show once, (Mustang was in pieces) one of the guys thought the Supra looked like lighting mcqueen... called me by that name and it stuck. So all the forums I belong to, I use that name.
I've signed up here a while ago, but this is my first post.
I've been a GEN3 T4R owner since 2005, a black 1997 4Runner SR5 V6, with 5 speed manual. I've always wanted one since the Gen2, and finally pulled trigger on buying it right after the divorce, because my ex kept both DDs, (Wrangler and Maxima) but I kept my toy JZA80 TT Supra.
As a rookie DYI'er, I've gotten a lot of help from posts on this site... oil change, fixing the stuck rear tail gate handle, spark plug change, power steering fluid change etc)
My 4Runner became our family car after I remarried and now with 3 kids.
With our family now needing 3rd row, (as kids are getting bigger) and with 180,000 miles on the clock, I'm faced with a decision... do I sell it and get what my wife wants? (used Lexus GX 470 with third row... or Honda Odyssey... or ???) Do we keep it, and do some serious modifications to it?
Right now, we have no idea, but space at home is limited and I have to get rid of something before getting a new car... but the 4Runner has been running flawlessly and I'd hate to get rid of it.
So here I am, aimlessly wondering around this site for any ideas (or signs?) of what I should do...
I love my truck, but looks like the below is the only picture I have on my PC. (I feel bad because I have million pics of my 'toys', Supra and 1986 Mustang)
It's going to be really hard to see this truck go, if we decide to get rid of it, because my family basically born in it and grew with it.
These are my 'toys'... again, one of these guys must go, if I keep the truck and add a newer family car.
And why 'lightning mcqueen'?
I took the Supra to the local Mustang show once, (Mustang was in pieces) one of the guys thought the Supra looked like lighting mcqueen... called me by that name and it stuck. So all the forums I belong to, I use that name.
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