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Definately come visit all the malls out near Tysons Corner, there's also a lot of good places to stay and shop around there. As for food, I'd recommend my dad's resturant... Colonel Brooks Tavern/ Island Jim's Tiki Bar right across the street from Catholic University/ the Brookland Metro, literally a 5-10 minute walk. :) Also, McLean Pizza is a really good resturant, right in the middle of McLean. I'm sure you'll see my ES250 driving around somewhere, since I'm always out, either around the Tysons area or in NW DC.

Yeah, I have full assemblies, actually I have the whole car still... we're picking up an Acura RDX when it comes out in July, which is when we'd get rid of my ES250. No sense in a 3 person family having 5 cars :whistles:

Woah impressive.

Had my ES since May 19, 2005 - had 128,300, now currently has 134,700. So in 9 months I've put on give or take 6,400 miles, which is kind of suprising. I make trips out to Sterling/Great Falls almost every weekend, and sometimes I'll do a lap or two around the Capital Beltway, just because I'm that bored. Other than that, I just started driving it a couple months ago 12 miles round trip 5 days a week to school in D.C. My 2002 4Runner had 83 miles when we bought it new in December 2001, and now has just broke 70,000 miles. Thanks to 4 yearly trips to North and South Carolina, New York, West Virginia and once through New England (to The Balsams in CT/NH). 51 months. Thats about 1,373 miles a month.

Oh my.

I'd have to agree, my luxury sedan sports the single cluster, and might I say, it sure does a fine job of it. :whistles: No but seriously, I agree with you. :) I kinda like how my 4Runner has the recessed gauges in the dash, but not 3-pod type where it looks like you're staring down a tube to see the gauges. P.S. PLease excuse my hairy legs...

Strong resemblance to the Acura, it's true. But... The front of both Acura and Lexus look like this to me... My parents' 02 Chevy Impala... The rest of the exterior looks exactly like a Camry... surprise! Amen!

Acura RL? Teehee. :D

I found that if I use the iPod with the Dock, and the tape player plugged into the "line out" part of the Dock, along with a iPod car charger plugged into the bottom of the Dock, the sound quality is pretty dang good. Charges the iPod too; it gets a little tangly, but it's manageable.

They're not too bad on my car, noise is kinda high with them, but offer a superior level of grip compared to my Goodyears. I can't say anything about comfort levels, since the suspension on my car is pretty much shot, bottoming out over everything, causing a ton of lean into corners, etc. I feel safer taking a rapm at 45 MPH in my 4Runner than the same ramp at 30 MPH in my ES.

Apparently some !Removed! stuck some gum in the handle which made it stick up... I cleaned that out and now it moves much more freely, but still doesn't go down all the way. Plus the whole mechanism moves around in the door when I pull up the handle. I'm sure I'll end up getting it fixed for $500 (thankfully my parent's $$$), but will be unsuccessful in showing them how much of a money pit my car is.

Well the driver door handle broke on my 91 ES today, lifted it and it crunched and was stuck in the up position. Door still locks and closes. Any suggestions on what to do?

I used to be able to connect to my neighbor's internet connection too. I then had to remove it from the list of available wireless networks because occasionally it would be stronger than my own connection and would interfere with everything that had to do with my Internet. What kind of internet connection do you have? To make the most of any high speed connection, it's best to use a wireless G router if you're planning on not using a hardwired connection. I'd recommend Linksys with speed booster routers, especially since RadioShack has a sale on them for a little longer.

cute, aaahhh... for the hot tub right? Daddy says me no allowed in hot tub- Mommy still gives me bathies.

no need fo hatin on me- It's greyish green, solid color. Havent had a chance to find out what "name" color it is yet. Sound like a cool remote system! I'll have to check it out. What brand? If you would like the 91 FSM, I could email it to ya! :P Lol. It's a DEI Valet remote starter system. www.directed.com and click the Valet tab on the left. It's working slowly for me but it's in there. And thanks I have the FSM for the wiring, engine and transmission. I'm having a difficult time comprehending it all though.

If you happen to have the burgandy ES250, I might hate you. I love that color, especially the fact that it's only one color, and not 2-toned like most 250's I've seen. The system I'm getting is gonna be $160 + tax installed, I ended up not needing a bypass box even though our keys have a little chip inside (that would've cost me another $80). It includes lock/unlock with flash of the parking lights to confirm, remote start, timed start, turbo/cool down (won't use), rear defroster start, and the option to automatically put the windows up when its locked. DEI has a .pdf user's guide on their website for it, and it comes in handy.

Wow, your trunk triggers the alarm with the doors locked? Mine doesn't. :cries: Do you lock with the key or with the button on the inside? I only notice the "Security" light to go solid then begin flashing when I use the key to lock the car. I'm gonna install the DEI Valet Remote Start on my car at Circuit City. As for cleaning up the looks, try removing the pinstripes, depending on what color your car is, although I'm not a big fan of them on any car. All you need is a hairdryer and some patience to get them off. Before and after pics of my car, the first is the night I got it and the 2nd is quite a while after I had cleaned it up well. Good luck!

Well after getting the transmission and engine mounts replaced, I thought this strange creaking/rubbing/moaning noise would disappear, but it has not. When I was moving my car into the driveway last night, I had the door open and realized that every time I applied the brakes, what sounded like a rubber on rubber noise came from the front left of the car, around the left wheel well area. This only happens when the car is moving and when I'm going slow and applying the brakes right before I stop. I also figured that the brake vibration/pulsation and squeek is coming from the right rear tire (where I hit that curb at 40... <_< ) My dad thinks that all I need to do is back the pad off of the rotor a little, because when I was installing my new exhaust tips, I had it up on the jack and spun the tire to find that it always grabbed in the exact same place on every rotation, and could hear it dragging on the rotor. Is he right on saying this, or how should I go about trying to fix that?

:cries: I wish my car was at 2250 RPM at 55 MPH. I'm more like 3100 +/- 50 at 70 MPH...LOL.

I got $1000, another $500 for investing into stocks, some clothes, a rubber duck that lights up when you put it on top of water, 2 iTunes gift cards, some new chrome exhaust tips and harmon/kardon iPod interface for my cars. Oh and 4 new Falken ZEIX 512's! <3 B)

Merry Christmas everybody, hope everyone has a good one. I'm pretty happy, one of my gifts was 4 little model car tires, I asked my dad what they were, and he said 4 new Falkens for my car. :D Fiiiiiiinally.

Well where's the fun in that? It renders family vacations pointless, but only if your traveling plans involve golfing, spa treatments, and shopping. And rental cars. And babysitters. And haircuts. Father: "Pack your bags, kids, we're going to get the car serviced." Kids: "Yay!!!" :whistles: And who needs a fire to keep warm by in the middle of Orange County?

I've noticed that my car does that a lot too if I have anything less than 3/4 a tank of gas in the tank. My ES sits outside so it's always cold on start up, and lately I've had it warm up in the driveway for atleast 5-10 minutes before driving off, and by then if I'm lucky, the temp gauge is 1/3 the way up. Then it warms up much faster once I get driving. Something about the separation of the gas in the tank that makes it run higher at start up and idle, not only because it's set to do that, but because the engine is feeding itself more gas than usual when the gas sits in the tank for an extended period of time.

Damn Glad to see you're ok (well, good enough to tell us about the accident ) Is it totaled?

Exceptionally good potato chips and Cherry Coke today 94; I applaud you.