ZKCola

1990 ES250 4 speed auto It is two-toned tan and darker tan outside and beige/brown inside. I am the second owner. I bought it for $3000with only 35,000 miles from a lady who lives down the street from me. I have owned it since the summer of 2005. A conduit under the dash for the air conditioning was repaired and the system was flushed and recharged with the new freon. The tie rods were rusted through and replaced. Both the a/c and the tie rods were done soon after I bought it. I had the work done at a mechanic my dad is friends with. It cost me about 700 dollars. The CV boots are bad and need to be replaced, but I don't think I will ever do it, plus there is still lubricant in them and they don't make noise. The headlight adjustment screws are broken so I use plastic dividers from a tool kit to prop up the lights. The radio's tape deck didn't work...I tried to repair it and activated the security code. Lexus wanted 50 dollars to give me the code, so I bought a new system from sound advice. I went best buy first but they told me (along with circuit city and brandsmart) that there was no kit that fit my car. One even surveyed my car and acted as if it was alien technology. I was told to go to sound advice for a custom kit and they told me I didn't need one. I probably should of jsut bought my own and installed it, but I was young and it was my first car and I wasn't thinking straight. The cupholder had the same problem with the latch that seems to be common, where it doesnt catch anymore, so I removed the spring and set the cubby piece under the new radio back a bit more so I can use my finger tip to pull it out. Oh and I broke both side markers on the head light trying to remove them to replace the bulb. Either I missed something or it is just impossible to remove them with out snapping off those two stupid tabs. Also one fo my sisters backed into my car in the first week and the other one hit a parked car while driving it. so there is some rear bumper and tailight damage as well as some front bumper damage due to that. I have modded the steering wheel with a rich corinthian leather cover at a cost of 10 dollars. Also, I didn't take car of it and became severly dry and cracked so I remodded it with a new rich cornithian leather cover for another 10. I modded the 3rd tail light to display the word DRONE 1 when lit up. My sister's boyfriend got me into watching 24 and it's a joke about how often they used the words "drone", "Gredenko", and so on in one epsiode. I fitted the driver's seat with a sweet black massaging pad to cover up the ripping. Then i had to remove the massging beads under the black fabrig beacuse they were digging into my spine. I put a nifty little lighting gel over the clock. Now it's blue at night and unseeable during the day. Serious stuff here. I am 21 and my parents made me a deal that while I was in college, if I bought a car they would keep me on their insurance and pay it, so I am still riding on that.