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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 03:55 PM
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Names Dan, recently moved to Southern California(South Orange CO.) for a career out of college. Moved from Cleveland Ohio. Happy to be here in SoCal, and on this forum.

After leaving modest Ohio University in southern Ohio, I quickly adapted to the 'materialisticness' of souther Cali, if only carwise. GLAD I DID!!! I love this car, I can't get over it yet, especially after upgrading from an 04' Cavalier, haha. Miss the manual trany though.

Sooo I picked up my 03 STR for what I consider a great deal. Car has 81K. Pretty flawless from what I can tell. Does have the slight Lurch everyone speaks of(whatever). Better than the slight or drastic everything my Cavalier had.

After doing a decent amount of reading, I realized it was better to tap into the knowledge of people who have put 100,000 miles on my identical car. THANK you for all of this. From what I have read, I will probably get plenty of miles out of my car with little to know near future problems. Thankfully, the brakes were just replaced, as well as the sensors.

I was able to purchase a 5 year, 100,000 mile warranty(Engine and Trany only) on top of what the car already has. This was about $1700 extra. Scam skeptical. California is supposed to be pretty harsh on insurance companies though, so hopefully it's all good.


Pictures soon.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 03:58 PM
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Names Dan, recently moved to Southern California(South Orange CO.) for a career out of college. Moved from Cleveland Ohio. Happy to be here in SoCal, and on this forum.

After leaving modest Ohio University in southern Ohio, I quickly adapted to the 'materialisticness' of souther Cali, if only carwise. GLAD I DID!!! I love this car, I can't get over it yet, especially after upgrading from an 04' Cavalier, haha. Miss the manual trany though.

Sooo I picked up my 03 STR for what I consider a great deal. Car has 81K. Pretty flawless from what I can tell. Does have the slight Lurch everyone speaks of(whatever). Better than the slight or drastic everything my Cavalier had.

After doing a decent amount of reading, I realized it was better to tap into the knowledge of people who have put 100,000 miles on my identical car. THANK you for all of this. From what I have read, I will probably get plenty of miles out of my car with little to know near future problems. Thankfully, the brakes were just replaced, as well as the sensors.

I was able to purchase a 5 year, 100,000 mile warranty(Engine and Trany only) on top of what the car already has. This was about $1700 extra. Scam skeptical. California is supposed to be pretty harsh on insurance companies though, so hopefully it's all good.


Pictures soon.
little to "know" problems? really? ha
 
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 04:47 PM
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We know what you mean!

Welcome to the forum,

Enjoy that R!
 
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 06:38 PM
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welcome aboard the Jaguarforums, good to have you here with us ....please continue in the relevant section for yourcar as this is the newbie welcome section


There really are some amazing and friendly guys here....you're in really good company to discuss anything Jag related or even just to have a few laughs!

I've manually upgraded you to full forum access so you can better view the site and all its features
so jump on in and enjoy
 
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Old Feb 15, 2012 | 10:19 AM
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I appreciate it. I like the beer smileys, I work for a beer distributor, beer is good. DRINK UP!!! it makes my paychecks bigger.
 
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Old Feb 15, 2012 | 11:31 AM
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Welcome to the forum.

Congratulations on the STR.

We're always up for a case or two.
 
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