Tomorrow is the day

"Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies" (jordanwphillips) 07/03/2018 at 23:26 • Filed to: Drunk Post

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The day in which I fix the 4Runner. After that I will decide whether it stays, or if it goes. It’s been great, but my sister has a friend with too much daddy money and offered me $4000 for the pile of electrical nightmare. That being said, it’s not really the vehicle that I need to dump, and it is the vehicle I need to make reliable.

Truth be told, I miss the shit out of daily driving it. It was a vehicle that I didn’t care if I got it dinged. It was a vehicle that tended to get people to move over. But it was a vehicle that was completely stress free to drive. It started when I needed it to, and it did what it was told. Besides being fast. And honestly, the wheel front end work I’m doing is sadly all it really needed to keep going. But I wanted a new car more.

And that last sentence isn’t really a knock against the FiST, because I love that car more than I’ve ever cared for the 4Runner. It makes me smile every single day, but it doesn’t change the fact that I really shouldn’t have bought it.

So yeah, a new car is almost never an answer to your vehicular problems, even if the problem gets less than 10mpg and takes 20 seconds to get to 60.

I owe this thing a lot, and regret letting it go to shit. I’ve done so much stupid shit with it, and it never really let me down. So many neutral drops trying to get someone else out of hole that it could have exploded. So many dumb mistakes that it could have killed me in. But nope, every single time I did something stupid, it pulled me out without breaking a single sweat.

But now, I haven’t even started it in two months, and I’m an asshole. 

Steve in Manhattan > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 07/03/2018 at 23:47

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If someone will put the money in and keep it alive, save the 4Runner. You can always buy it back later if it stays local.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Steve in Manhattan 07/03/2018 at 23:58

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I live in the Carolinas.

Honestly, it’s not the money. It’s just been laziness. I’ve just recently came to the conclusion that I need it in my life. It goes places I can’t take the Fiesta. And honestly, if I could fix it right, I would have no need for the Fiesta.

wafflesnfalafel > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 07/04/2018 at 00:44

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if you love it, set it free - I hope all my previous vehicles give somebody else function and joy...

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > wafflesnfalafel 07/04/2018 at 00:55

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Seeing the things the previous owner had done.... It would 100% end up scrapped. I’ll likely keep it. If I can’t find another job soonish, the other one will likely leave the stable. I love the FiST, but I’ve outgrown it driving wise anyways. The Fiesta’s fun can be replicated and expanded upon. The memories of the 4Runner cannot. I truly cannont express what it mentally means to me. I’ve just been caught in the moment for too long to realize it. The 4Runner made me smile when nothing else would, the Fiesta just never fails to make me smile in a high time. I hope I don’t have to choose, but if I have to choose, I’ll stick with the 23 year old Toyota. I know what I’ve had to replace on the FiST, due to Ford’s cheaping out. I don’t want to depend on that for years to come. The intercooler comes Friday, because it tends to stumble when it’s hot. The motor mount came, because I nearly money shifted it because the shifter moved that much under acceleration. The shift plate was installed because my employers’s 340k mile Tacoma had a better shifter... The radiator barely does it’s job. The turbo is stressed out beyond use by 5300rpm.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s an amazingly fun car. It’s way more fun than it needed to be. But it’s a very flawed car.

The 4Runner’s biggest flaw has been fixed, the gaskets replaced and the heads resurfaced. That should last until I can LS swap it.

Spridget > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 07/04/2018 at 01:48

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You can buy back fun driving and daily drivability and practicality; you can find other cars that do all of those things better. B ut you can’t buy back the emotional connection you have to 4Runner.