Oppopinons please, Oppominions ...

"Brian, The Life of" (familycar)
07/25/2014 at 18:06 • Filed to: daughters first car, hooptie shopping

Hey Kids! It's time for another episode of "Do you feel lucky, punk?"

Today's contestant is a slice of Clinton-era Japanese luxury from Datsun Nissan Inifiniti ! Yup, later this afternoon my daughter and I are going to drive down to basically Mexico the South Bay for a clandestine meet-up with the seller in a mall parking lot. Seems legit! We'll be checking out a relatively low-mileage !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Neat, huh?

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So what say you armchair prognosticators of mechanical reliability? Anything particular about these I should look out for? Anyone violently apposed to these cars (like you were with the Land Rover Disco the other day)? I have never owned/had to deal with any flavor of Nissan before so I'm a bit of a babe in the woods with these things.

DISCUSSION (23)

Leadbull > Brian, The Life of
07/25/2014 at 18:09

I am in no need of this car anymore since I have bought another.

Sounds comforting.

Bandit > Brian, The Life of
07/25/2014 at 18:09

Didn't your daughter just buy a car?

TheLOUDMUSIC- Put it in H! > Brian, The Life of
07/25/2014 at 18:10

They got rid of the plastic cam chain tensioners the year before, so the only thing I can remember is to see if the trans shifts smoothly. 90's Japan reliability with 7 series comfort. AKA, DOOOOOOOOOO EEEETTTTTTTTTTTT NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Brian Silvestro > Brian, The Life of
07/25/2014 at 18:10

Why not just buy like a bunch of the same Mercedes'?

Brian, The Life of > Brian, The Life of
07/25/2014 at 18:12

By the way, we went to check out this beast this morning. It had bullet-proof windows ... I just HAD to! Roughly half of the electronics worked and the bottom-end felt like it was right on the edge of flying apart.

We ran away.

For Sweden > Brian Silvestro
07/25/2014 at 18:13

No. One daughter drives the Mercedes Benz, soon a daughter will drive the Infiniti, and eventually the third daughter will drive a Fiat Spyder. They will be the uber allies trifecta.

Brian, The Life of > Leadbull
07/25/2014 at 18:13

Because Craigslist sellers.

Brian, The Life of > Bandit
07/25/2014 at 18:14

That was 1of3 who got the W116. This car is for 2of3. ;)

Brian Silvestro > For Sweden
07/25/2014 at 18:15

Perfect.

Brian, The Life of > TheLOUDMUSIC- Put it in H!
07/25/2014 at 18:15

It does look promising! I mean, Craigslist ads never lie ... right?

Ferrero1911 > Bandit
07/25/2014 at 18:15

He has triplet daughters!

Ferrero1911 > Brian, The Life of
07/25/2014 at 18:16

But did you test the windows?!

Brian, The Life of > Ferrero1911
07/25/2014 at 18:19

I brought a gun but the motor was so far gone I didn't want to waste a bullet.

YSI-what can brown do for you > Brian, The Life of
07/25/2014 at 18:25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=…

It has a VH45 which is basically(kind of) a racing engine. It way overbuilt for its road car application, so you won't have any problems with the engine. As for everything else. . . I don't know

Why not a Lexus LS400? My uncle has owned one for 20 years with 240k on it, and it is still going strong! Plus 1UZ. You know me and my 1UZ :3

Nibby > Brian, The Life of
07/25/2014 at 18:29

GIMME

Bandit > Brian, The Life of
07/25/2014 at 18:32

Wow! Good luck!

Bandit > Ferrero1911
07/25/2014 at 18:33

Damn... He gets to have a reason to go craigslist shopping though!

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > Brian, The Life of
07/25/2014 at 18:45

Not too bad. I'm pretty sure I linked you a 7 Series in your question yesterday about Rovers.

I was tempted to even send you the bulletproof Merc, but stopped when I saw Salvage title.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > Brian, The Life of
07/25/2014 at 18:59

Did you or your daughter happen to see this HSE?

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/cto/458230…

Brian, The Life of > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
07/25/2014 at 19:01

I'm not at all opposed to a salvage title on a $2-3000 first car for a teen that is only going to carry liability insurance, anyway. Most of the time salvage titles happen because of theft.

Brian, The Life of > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
07/25/2014 at 19:03

I can virtually guarantee this is a scam.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > Brian, The Life of
07/25/2014 at 19:05

Ah, gotcha. I keep thinking of my archaic laws here in Jersey. A car with a salvage title is basically unregisterable without jumping through a million hoops.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > Brian, The Life of
07/25/2014 at 19:06

It'll only cost you a kidney or two. Where's your sense of adventure?