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haha.. i guess it can be confusing at times.. Now im debating whether im gonna do the same with the plate lights on my Trooper.. Only problem, these bulbs are a little darker at night, BUT the Trooper only has ONE bulb for the plate light! You think it'll look too dark at night, especially that the color of the car is like a Burgundy red??

Thanks. Yes I'm fortunate enough to find this lovely vehicle that was well taken cared of and barely used. We almost pulled the trigger on a green 2001 Trooper that had 68k km... My Trooper after she got tinted... The green one WE ALMOST GOT

95F at 7am??? My Turbo Intercooled Common Rail Diesel Engine 10 seater Front (yes the billet grille is STOCK) Back

Thanks! Yea the previous owner barely used this vehicle so the leather's still in pretty good condition. haha, you noticed my stereo? Yes Filipinos LOVE accesories and anything they can add to their cars, so STOCK stereos are usually different than what we see in America. You are correct about my CRV's Kenwood DPX-510 stereo, and my Pioneer DEH(forgot model number it's still new to me ok! lol) in the Trooper... What's weird also, different dealer, different stereos! I noticed that because when I saw used CRVs of my model, they had a Kenwood Stereo Deck BUT SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT.. Mine flips down automatically for the cassette behind it, other models you push a button and manually pull the screen down for the cassette, some models have the automatica flip down BUT you can't adjust the tilt, mine you can... so it's all different... why do they do this, i really dont know! But im happy with what I got in the CRV and the Trooper... :) More pix to come!

Hey guys! Well I know I'm still mad about what happened, but since my truck (1995 Mitsubishi L200 4WD Strada) is having a lot of problems, we decided to get another car. Now we decided between brand new and used, yes it sounds like choosing between day and night but we decided we wanted something big over here, something that will handle the floods when it rains a lot, and something that will get me thru traffic (yes i'm using it's enormous size to squeeze my way thru, cuz the little cars get scared when they see a big SUV cutting in front of them lol) so we found this slightly used Isuzu Trooper.... It's a 2002 Isuzu Trooper LS, FoxFire Red, Ivory Interior, Turbo Intercooled Common Rail Diesel, and it only had 28k km! (roughly 17k-18k miles) plus I checked with the dealer today and the mileage is correct with complete service records so this baby sounds good as new! I'll be leaving this thread in General Discussion for awhile then I'll move it to the Show and Shine forum. ;) Interior

haha, I never thought about that.. lol.. I can only imagine the longest wait ever for both of you guys! lol.. Heck, I'm about to acquire another vehicle over here, and waiting around 3-5 more days is killing me!!! <_< <_<

Congrats guys! Don;t forget to invite me for the baby showers! :whistles: lol.. you guys should have a joint baby shower, lol..

Well the 03 had a few issues, but all can be addressed. The 03s had the clunk issued that has been mentioned numerous times, vibration in the steering wheel, sulfur smell from the a/c. Otherwise, it's a good vehicle and you shouldn't have much problems with this model. Just search around this forum and you'll be able to see the problems discussed here before.. And the 4Runner has the same problem as the GX (V8 4wd 4Runners) ;)

Stripper

Honestly, I don't see how it will affect my future, I mean after I finish some course here I can still come back to America and pursue my career there.. It's just that I think it was totally immoral for my parents to decide where I should study AND especially doing it behind my back.. Like that one culture, is it the Chinese culture or what, that the parents choose who the kids will marry? I forgot what culture that was but my situation feels very similar to it.. Rya, lol, there are a lot of lower $$$ people out there in my country, but gated subdivisions here in the Philippines ALL have at LEAST one live guard at the gate... But if you live in a non gated subdivision, there's no guard obviously. The guard system is actually pretty nice, you can't enter UNLESS you know someone inside, and they have to leave their driver's license at the gate and you pick it up when you leave. But it's only MY subdivision that has 3 gates with an army load of guards because for one thing, it's the BIGGEST subdivision, plus a lot of celebrities and government officials live in here with ridiculously filthy riches! I'll try and take some pix when I can of my area around here. ;) Plus it's only in my subdivision that the guards at the gate CALL the owner's house to double confirm if the visitor is real or an intruder. Other subdivision usually just take your license and let you in as long as you mention the name of any resident inside. Currently I'm actually kinda busy looking for another car. :P Reason is because the Mitsubishi Strada we have is kinda having some problems already, not going to get rid of it, but we need another car. Yes I still have the CRV but the CRV is light duty for the streets here so I'm lookin at any rear wheel drive vehicle right now. lol.. MY chocies are (not available in USA but you can search them on the net) either the Toyota Innova or Mitsubishi Fuzion (yes i know it looks ugly but it's practical for it's price) Toyota Innova (sorry for the horrible cell picture, it was at a car exchange and the window was right next to the car) Mitsubishi Fuzion

:D So can you take the same classes or similar to what you were going to take? hmmm, good question Rya. lol.. I think my classes should be somewhat similar to what I was going to take at Fresno State.. except the Filipino (aka Tagalog) language which is going to KILL me because I only know how to speak it, but I have a hard time reading it and writing it.. so yea, we'll see Thanks Jay.. yea I live in a 7000 acre gated subdivision (there are 3 gates u can enter and exit the subdivision lol) with LIVE guards at the gate 24/7 with firearms.. This subdivision im in is like a min-America... You've got ALL the rich ppl of the Philippines (we're just one of the smaller potatoes here lol) who have a lot more than what all our riches here on this forum could add up to! I mean, they've got houses that can cost up to a $1M, cars like Bentleys, Ferraris, Lambos, Aston Martins, etc... and remember they have to pay the customs tax which in the end would turn out to be like paying for the car 3 times! So yes, I'm very fortunate enough to AT LEAST be able to live in a nice neighborhood... Heck, you can even leave your house unlocked and car unlocked and not worry about anyone entering and stealing your stuff! lol..

Don't even get me started with these ugliest cars.. lol.. I'll try and take some pix of the local cars here which would make any B9 Tribeca and Vehicross look like an LS460L ANYDAY. ;)

Well I havent heard a GX W/O the hissing sound from the brakes, but let's just consider your 04 a "special" GX. ;) Cuz all the GX's I've been in ALL have the hissing sound, and even the 4Runners as I have mentioned numerous times in the past so it is absolutely NORMAL, trust me. It's better for the hissing sound to be the "normal" thing rather than have the dealer tell you to your face that the CLUNK is a normal thing! I've experienced that before, and DEFINITELY the clunk isn't normal. ;)

Fortune Teller

No worries on the warranty. Lexus is honoring this TSIB as a drivetrain warranty (per the released TSIB to dealers). The drivetrain warranty is 72 months or 70,000 miles. Complete OFFICIAL TSIB from Lexus is here (hosted here due to size of attachment): http://www.faqlexus.com/index.php?action=a...&artlang=en Good finding Reboot! I'll put a side note on the title to help new owners find the TSB right away

Decided to take some new "mug shots" lol

So are you telling us that you previously had a 2004 GX470 that DIDNT have this hissing noise from the brakes, and now you have purchased a 07 GX that HAS the hissing sound? To my knowledge, I believe ALL GX470s have the hissing sound when pressing on the brakes. Heck, even the 4Runners have the hissing sound even on the V6s which have a different engine than the GX. ;)

Haha.. Thanks Smooth1. Hey this is all I've got so might as well enjoy it, right?!?! I mean if someone gave me a beer but there wasn't any cups and ice available, will you reject it because of that?? lol.. :P With all that said, I have been around the universities here but I still have to take a few entrance exams, which is more like the SAT for us.. I'm going to be an IRREGULAR student because I start on their 2nd semester, because first semester started back in June! So it's all messed up really, I tried to tell my parents that I should finish my frosh year of college in Fresno, then come here for my soph year, but NOOOOO they wouldn't listen. At least in that way, I don't end up wasting my precious education time just because of my parents' impulsive decisions.. I mean I would have been OPENED to this decision IF they discussed this with me IN PERSON and given enough warning... Now it seems like I was sent to Iraq w/o at least a pistol or a knife to kill! lol.... Sw, yes I know it's time for me to go to college and not take care of other BS like rentals and stuff, but they SACRIFICED me and told me to sacrifice just to help my granny out! sheez... Well I have no choice and I know someday I'll be rewarded with much greater things HOPEFULLY. And as for my CRV, haha, maybe I'll just try to influence my grandma to get me a new Toyota Fortuner or a Toyota Land Cruiser PRADO. :) But that $65,000 4runner just makes my mouth water more and more when I see it everytime I drive by that car exchange :chairshot: lol But I still miss my "cheap offroad" I used to do with my 4Runner! My CRV can't go offroad! grrr... lol

I agree with G Man... flipping a car IS NOT POSSIBLE unless you sell it to a different country for a jacked up price... Like over here in the Philippines a brand new GX470 costs (well it's imported, there's no Lexus dealership here) about $95,000! That's a GX470 with only 3rd seat, RSES, and ML.. No NAVI

R&B

Thanks guys for all your concerns and critical thinking. Personally there MUST be a bigger reason why my parents are FORCING me to stay here... Honestly I don't know (find a Filipina Gf, experience life here, parents "gradual" retirement, idk!) but as for now, the story is like I said, to take care of 90 yr old granny, take over responsibilities of rentals, and obviously go to school at the same time... Now at first, I thought my dad was going to stay here for most of the year also (like 9 or 10 months in a year, then 2 or 3 months in Fresno) BUT since he mentioned that he's only staying here till I get my school all settled, then I felt a little better that, ok maybe they are right in some sense and that I'm the one that's going to take care of things here.. Because at first, if my dad was going to be here for a majority part of the year, why the hell do I have to be here also! Why can't I just stay in Fresno? My mom's going to be by herself for most of the year? But since that's not the case, then it makes a little more sense... I still DONT AGREE with this decision at hand, because they said it was a "family decision" with missing members in the vote, but eh, it'll all come back to them someday I guess.... Just wait, idk hopefully it wont be that bad, but GOOD will prevail out of this someday.... Who knows! I would be HAPPY to live here and stay here permanently IF they discussed this WITH ME... NOT BEHIND MY BACK.... What *BLEEP*es me off now is that when we go around and talk to their friends and they find out that I'm going to study here, they say "WE" decided on this (where's the WE when I wasnt included?!?!?!) that Denny is going to study here.... uhhh ahem.... excuse me, YOU DECIDED on this, NOT ME, NOT DENNY...... But eh, I'll get used to it i guess... Definitely I gotta say, Filipina girls are my type. :P hahaha! When i visit schools, I can't just, wow, can't even explain it... lol.. :whistles: Oh yea, I know you guys are probably SICK of hearing anymore Alex stories.... But I FINALLY TOLD HER.... :o :o :o Earlier today I was talking to her, trying to get a conversation going, then my dad had to ruin the conversation by telling me that we had to go to lunch already, HE SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME so I would have timed my phone call perfectly, but nooooo my parents (or just my dad in this case) have to ruin EVERYTHING I plan... ugh... So after that, my dad fought over the wheel of my car, and I had to sit my lazy !Removed! the whole time! ugh.. That's when I decided to TEXT Alex from my cell, and I told her thru text... Then when we got to the hotel where we were going to eat, my dad went to the bathroom for a second so I called her up and asked her how she felt... SHE WAS OK WITH IT!! OMG... I'm totally surprised.. no awkwardness or anything bad! She took it lightly and idk, I didnt ask her how she felt but I'm just glad we're still going to be friends even though I'm this far away, and that I TOLD HER that I liked her even me knowing that she is with that idiot Tim.... But anyways enough of that. Thanks for the warm wishes and I'll keep you guys updated! I just really REALLY miss my cars... everytime I see a C230 or 118i (haha no such thing in North America but here it's available lol) they think they're like an S550 or something, or what, and that's when I wished I had my GX or 4Runner to drive around here... :( I guess I'll have to be happy with my 97 CRV.... My stereo deck is what's making this car exciting cuz up till TODAY I'm still figuring out how to use every function of it. lol.. :P P.S. I just realized, that in my CRV photo I posted earlier, my grandma is that old lady right next to it, the one in the yellow dress... lol

Thanks guys for keeping me happy. But this choice WASNT a cultural thing.. It's more of a family thing that I was forced into taking over the responsibilities of my grandma and taking care of her, when in common sense it should be MY DAD (it's his mom! lol) that should be here to take care of my grandma and the rentals... But when i found out that my dad wont be here for long, ok I feel like it makes sense... Anyways what i miss the most are (maybe i mentioned it already) 3 things: 1. MY GX and 4R, 2. My friends and 3. The humid free weather... YES IT'S RIDICULOUSLY DAMN HUMID over here! But i will keep you all updated and post pix from time to time.... so hope u guys will still keep me in the LOC family! I havent been on much lately cuz my grandma's computer monitor died so until I buy a new computer i wont be able to sign on daily like i used to... but dont worry I'll still be around! I've gotten used to life over here... It's not bad... Servings are small though which sucks, things are EXPENSIVE over here, in the electronics sense, and the traffic is RIDICULOUS over here... 10x worse than New York or LA traffic! But no worries, I'm a typical Filipino driver now (if any of u guys have been here lately, and know how Filipinos drive over here, imagine me being one of those now! lol) Funny I got pulled over today actually! Cop said that I crossed the intersection when the light was red, but in reality the light was still yellow and the light changed when i was in the middle! My driver tried to talk him out of it but he couldn't, so I talked to him and he let me off with a warning... Whew! :whistles: The style over here is that u get a ticket, and they take ur license away and you have to go to the station to pick it up PLUS pay for the fines! But I think the main thing that "got me off the hook" was my California license! I got away with the idea that I'm just a visitor and that I won't be gone for long.. lol.. So i'm planning on having two licenses, a local and my CA so when it's simple stuffs, I can use my local while in "emergency" situations I use my CA license. lol.. Oh and btw, I live in Muntinlupa city, really close to the NAIA airport when you guys land over here. ;)

Looong story people.. I left on vacation for the Philippines on July 23. Now I'm pretty sure it was suppose to be just a "vacation". Ended up my parents, behind my back, decided to RELOCATE me and make me stay here! Now they're forcing me to stay here in the Philippines to study and supposidly take care of my 90 year old grandma and take over the responsibilities of our rental properties over here... Anyways at first I thought this is MORALLY WRONG to FORCE me to stay here.. Then I slowly learned that my dad is just going to be here for a few months only JUST TO GET ME STARTED on my college and stuffs here.. AT first I thought he was going to be here most of the time so I thought "why do I have to be here when he's here to take care of things" but I slowly learned that he's gonna be back in Fresno CA in maybe 3 or 4 months to go back and live with my mom.. Anyways I still think it's somewhat WRONG to force me to live somewhere where I don't want to live! Ok, MAYBE if they gave me an idea that this is a possibility, I would have better "prepared" myself for this trip and would have at least brought more of my stuffs and maybe said my last goodbye to my friends and stuffs... But NOOO I didn't even get a chance to say "later" to my dojo friends, and i didn't even get to have a last lunch or something with my friends! Heck, I even owe someone lunch still, and I had the whole summer to do it, but I ended up not being able to fulfill it.. so yea.. But I'm getting used to life over here... What I totally miss are 3 things: 1. MY cars (a 4Runner at a car exchange is running at about $65k) 2. My friends (especially ALEX) and 3. The humid-free weather in Fresno CA! I really really can't stand this humid weather! I mean the weather may be only about 82F BUT the humidity really kills me! Anyways since now I'm over here, RYA, I've decided to finally tell Alex one of these days about how I feel.. Cuz Idk if i ever mentioned this before, but I've NEVER told her that I liked her! I met a relative in the southern island and what's weird or cool is that she became friends with Alex thru myspace so they have been messaging each other lately. She eventually gave Alex a hint about my feelings, and then she asked about our friendship, but Alex mentioned (in her message to my relative) that "I don't see why our friendship should change. Denny's a cool guy and he's very nice. I don't see our friendship dying." (this was said in a message full of spelling errors btw lol) so yea.. After my relative forwarded this message, I had more GUTS to tell her! Oh and one more thing, after my relative told Alex, Alex responded to it and what I understand from her message IS that if Tim wasn't around, she would have liked me! Actually ok here's her message... "well i had that feeling that denny likes me but he also knows i have a boyfriend. denny is a great guy and i get along wiht him very well. and i do miss him too but i have a boyfriend. and my boyfriend has been loyal and very respectable to me. so it would be fair nor nice to leave him for denny. plus denny is over there now for a long time. and i hate long distance relationships. well anyways i have been with my boyfriend since may and we always acted like a couple but we never truly decited that he was my boyfriend untill june 3rd. but its like we have been together since may. he says he really loves me and i do love him too. he is a really great guy. i dont thing that denny likes him, nor thinks highly of him. but anyways i am glad that everything is going good over there. i got this long messege from denny but i will have to write him back becuase my mom needs my help wiht they kids. so tell denny i said hi. and give him a hug for me. ok talk to you later" :cries: But it's ok... I'm 6000k miles away so it's over... Now im gonna call her next week and FINISH this case... Oh yea btw, if you guys have any questions or anything, I have LIMITED internet right now because my grandma's computer died and I have limited access (when i can get my hands on a computer with internet) UNTIL I buy myself a new computer which I hope to accomplish within the next couple of weeks. If you guys have any questions or concerns, I can be reached (if ur willing to spend to txt me, because I am if you guys are lol. just dial EXACTLY as I give it to you) at 011639286810525 Here are a few photos to keep you guys interested... lol... Some cheap car show Suzuki APV Ssangyong 10 seater, 4 rows of seats! sheez... MY current ride... 1997 Honda CRV, had 10,600 kilometers when I came here, now it's almost at 12,000 kilometers :)

Just don't sweat it and enjoy the vehicle! Heck if I worried about that sound when I got my GX, I'd have to pull my hair out worrying about my 4Runner that has the SAME hiss sound when you press on the brakes! ;)

They are the same! hahaha! I put 1997 in my sig, cuz I thought it was a 97 model because we bought it in 97 as, I thought, a "97 model" but I saw the smog records and they have it down as a 98. I would have presumed it's a 98 also because we got it in Nov 1997. :P