Advice on buying an FTO

[Taz]

mrs has a late model tip lancer, quite funny as she has never driven a manual, but constantly keep her hand on the shifter
got to teach her one day, but not in the hefti ho though

[aza013]

mrs has constantly keep her hand on the shifter

and that is bad how?
It should keep a on your face .

[Sahin]

mrs has a late model tip lancer, quite funny as she has never driven a manual, but constantly keep her hand on the

[Daniel2019]

Ah so she likes to keep her hand on the knob hey?

[silverGPX]

One cannot describe the attractiveness of a girl slamming a tip gear stick into the next gear on the revlimiter in an FTO..

[Sahin]

One cannot describe the attractiveness of a girl slamming a tip gear stick into.....

[Taz]

mrs has constantly keep her hand on the shifter

and that is bad how?
It should keep a on your face .

Never said it was bad
Just pointing out she was born to drive manual, but never got around to it. Im sure one day ill buy another little run around car (hopefully an fto) and teach her in it

[Technikhaus]

Women can't drive tip, only full auto.

^^^
My wife is testament to this.

As is my girlfriend.

As is my Mum

[Astron_Boy]

One cannot describe the attractiveness of a girl slamming a tip gear stick into the next gear on the revlimiter in an FTO..

and the reason she hit the limiter and not 500rpm before hand?



To me, that's simply not attractive, but let's not visit this debate...

[spency]

it must be f**king impossible for you idiots to refrain from spamming for 1 thread. its always the same group of f**k tards that start it off as well.

[Astron_Boy]

it must be f**king impossible for you idiots to refrain from spamming for 1 thread. its always the same group of f**k tards that start it off as well.

That's like saying, it's always the newbies that ask the same questions which are already in the forum....

[-Nighthawk-]

it must be f**king impossible for you idiots to refrain from spamming for 1 thread. its always the same group of f**k tards that start it off as well.

+1. It's become too ridiculous lately. Leave it to the Gibberish Corner FFS...

[ebmp19]

I've gone and looked at a couple FTOs and so far I havn't found any well looked after ones. The first one was a 99 GX aero which had really bad body work and paint (couldn't see it at all in the photos) , the second and third were 95 GRs which had rust and leaks etc. I guess it might be a while before someone sells a decent one....

[-Nighthawk-]

Unfortunately every year it's harder and harder to find an FTO in decent condition.

For 6k a lot of the time there are a few issues, raise that price a few more thousand and you "should" start seeing more clean examples.

[Astron_Boy]

99 GX aero which had really bad body work and paint (couldn't see it at all in the photos)

Pity, as they are not a common model at all.

[ebmp19]

Do you think cars for sale on this website tend to be in better condition than ones on carsales and gumtree?

[Taz]

Do you think cars for sale on this website tend to be in better condition than ones on carsales and gumtree?

As a general rule, no. buying a car from anywhere is a mixed bad, ive seen (personally, first hand) that buying a car off here can be a big lemon, as sarp unfortunately learned the hard way, however personally, i have bought a car off here and have not had a single problem with it since. Its all about how it has been treated throughout its life, and there seems to be a trend where all the facelift, later models are much better then the earlier models. (unconfirmed though)
I personally would look for a later mode fto, and dont always think that more km's means a worse off car.

[ebmp19]

I can't really spend more than 7.5k so what sort of model/KM do you think I should be looking at? I'm definitely not buying a car before I get it inspected so hopefully that increases the chances of me not buying a lemon.

[Taz]

for 7.5k you should be able to get a decent fto, i paid 10k for mine a few years ago. You should get a good condition gpx for that price. Again, personally dont pay attention to the km (although around 150-200k is what youll find) as a good kept 200k car is better than a problem riddled thrashed 100k car

[ebmp19]

So will a good condition FTO at that kind of mileage still run reliably and not constantly need repairs? What major things should have been done (like timing belt etc)