nice sedan...looking to get into my first g as well...hopefully sooner than later

 

dang.. my 2k3 must be worth $5k then..

 

Nice buy man! I just bought my '04 sedan the other week for that same price and color too! Mine had 104'000 miles and came with OEM sport suspension, OEM Nav and OEM spoiler. It also has that new car smell. The very first thing I want to do is paint the lower black plastic moldings, they make the car look cheap.

It's my first RWD car and I already crashed it into a curb while making a turn in the rain. Caused over 6k worth of damage.... I just thought I could ride out the bald tires until winter. Anyway I learned that the traction control system or what ever computer system that keeps our cars in control isn't that great.

Other than that they're incredibly built cars!

 

^^Seriously??

No traction control system should be expected to keep a car with bald tires in the winter stable. You have a lot to learn about cars grasshopper.....

 

Yeah! Vdc has saved me a few times in the rain(vegas roads are super slick when wet) i dont however drive with bald tires

 

What I meant was I thought I could ride out the bald tires through the summer until winter. The night of the crash was actually window down drivable, the rain had just stopped and the roads were just wet.

Anyway prior to the crash I decided to turn the traction control off and test and find the limits of the car and also see how well it drifts in the rain, it actually drifts and handles quite well. What I should have done was ALSO test and find the limits of of the car with the traction control ON.

So after only 5 minutes of playing around with it off I said alright that's enough and turned it back on for a calm drive home. Then I get a call from work saying that I'm supposed to be working tonight so I must have read the schedule wrong and I started rushing to work.

I made a simple left turn on a 2 lane road and the back end of the car came around so I let off the gas and it was still sliding, I also looked down at the dash and no lights or anything came on, I counter steered to avoid spinning out and I was going straight for the curb so I slammed on the brakes which locked the wheels up (ABS did not come on) giving the car no chance to straighten out so I let off the brakes and the car continued to slide and then I hit the curb.

This happened at approx. 1am, there were no other cars on that road so what I should have just done was let it spin out rather than counter steering. I noticed the traction control system reacts very late anyway but I just thought the car also had another system VDC I think it's called which brakes individual wheels to keep the car straight.

What an expensive price to pay for a lesson to be learned

 

Guys i tried replacing the brushes from a forum i read, worked perfectly instead of paying $200 for a new motor i just paid $8 for new pair if brushes..