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Who here is part of the winter beater club?
Feel free to post pics.
Looking to pick myself up a reliable winter beater sometime in the near future. I'm thinking maybe a Jeep or Explorer on the high end, and some cheap crappy car on the low end.
I started driving in big 'ol 4X4's and would like something truck like for the winter, but just thinking of how practical it will be.
Anyways, post yours!
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My winter beater is a supercahrged Focus ZX3, if you can't drive it why bother :) :blink: :D
I bought a red car, because everyone knows red is the fastest.
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yeah i'm looking to find myself a "piece of s**t car"...(adam sandler tune,,FUNNY)....although, because it gets down to -55 or more here in the winter reliable is a big thing...."will it start, will it start, will it start" but then again, i could really walk to work, i mean it's about a 15 minute walk...
do i walk for 15 minutes or let it warm up for an hour to drive 6 minutes..hmmmmm...
so that's my dilema...hahahahha
"The weak shall inherit...........NOTHING"
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- 2 Inch Drop, Focus Sport Cold Air Intake, Street Glow 4 light strobe system,MBRP Cat back exhaust, 35% tint on front windows, 5% all around the rear. 1 Million Color Flowlighting Underglow kit, Inside and out. SPEEDHUT custom indiglo Guages, Sirius Satellite Radio, Pioneer DH6800 Deck, 15" Solo-Baric L7 Sub,Enkei 17 inch rims, Belltronic Radar Detector
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I'm in the same boat for a winter beater. Thinking about going for a S-10 4x4 w/ 4.3L V6.
I did have an S-10 with a 2.5L I4 RWD, but it was too light and spun out all the time on snow/slush/ice/dirt. It was really too light.
Sold: 2001 SE 2.0L SPI w/60mm TB, Steeda Shorty Intake.
Active: 2007 SES Hatch, Motegi MR7 Rims with 215/45ZR17 Michelin Pilot Super Sport Tires, debadged, black painted calipers and drums, RS Knob, CFM Short Throw, Billet E-Brake, CFM Focus pedals, MBRP Exhaust, XCal2, FS Front and Rear Strut Tower Bars, Diamond Plate Floor Mats and Sills, Alpine MP3 Deck, Alpine V-Power 300w Amp, Pioneer IMPP Sub, AlpineType-S door speakers, VF Engineering Rear Motor Mount, F2 RS Spoiler, Tokico D-spec shocks, HTP Cross Brace, EBC Rotors, Hawk HPS Pads, Russell SS Brake Lines, RS Wheel, SVT Blue Seats, Vibrant 2.5" Race Highflow Cat, CFM UDP. Rear SVT bumper to come.
Active: 2005 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited TJ [LJ], Volant CAI, 32" BFG Mud Terrains, and a whole bunch of goodies. 
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01-yellow-ZX3,Aug 1 2005 Wrote:Who here is part of the winter beater club?
Feel free to post pics.
Looking to pick myself up a reliable winter beater sometime in the near future. I'm thinking maybe a Jeep or Explorer on the high end, and some cheap crappy car on the low end.
I started driving in big 'ol 4X4's and would like something truck like for the winter, but just thinking of how practical it will be.
Anyways, post yours!
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I think you also have to consider the price of gas in your equation as well. Mark my words unless our winter this year is as mild as hell, you're looking at $1/L easy :ph34r: and a Jeep/Explorer sucks gas like a drunk sucks beer at Oktoberfest :rofl:
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2005 Ford Focus ZX5 ... :D
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SangriaRedZX5,Aug 1 2005, 05:27 PM Wrote:2005 Ford Focus ZX5 ... :D
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Oh dear, I hope you treat the poor thing better than the treatment a "typical" winter beater gets (IE: A car wash once a month and the interior looks like a salt factory exploded in there :ph34r:)
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(Washes his car once a week for now but wonders if he'll still be able to come winter)
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My beater consists of the stock 14" steelies. :P
Daily driver 1: 2007 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sport "S"
33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.
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My winter beater is the Focus as well. thats what I bought it for. TransAm in the summer, Focus in the winter...or when the transam is in the shop getting upgrades.
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The Justy is looking good brotha.
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2001 ZTS,Aug 1 2005, 09:34 PM Wrote:The Justy is looking good brotha.
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Not bad for something that looked like this heh! :)
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NefCanuck,Aug 1 2005, 06:25 PM Wrote:SangriaRedZX5,Aug 1 2005, 05:27 PM Wrote:2005 Ford Focus ZX5 ... :D
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Oh dear, I hope you treat the poor thing better than the treatment a "typical" winter beater gets (IE: A car wash once a month and the interior looks like a salt factory exploded in there :ph34r:)
NefCanuck
(Washes his car once a week for now but wonders if he'll still be able to come winter)
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Oh no, its just thats what I'll be driving...
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haha the justy.. love it.. with the 4 feet long shifter.. and truck sound..and you can see from the pictures the racing lines that subaru thought of when they designed it..
i wish i had one though.. 4wd is all i'd need for winter.. and heat
now im buying a house so im not sure yet what im getting for a beater.. i was thinking a newer more expensive (hopefully more reliable) car but now i dont know.. i dont want a 500$ piece of crap that'll cost me a grand every month to fix something new.. in the wniter
ZX3T gone..
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BerinG,Aug 2 2005, 08:20 AM Wrote:haha the justy.. love it.. with the 4 feet long shifter.. and truck sound..and you can see from the pictures the racing lines that subaru thought of when they designed it..
i wish i had one though.. 4wd is all i'd need for winter.. and heat
now im buying a house so im not sure yet what im getting for a beater.. i was thinking a newer more expensive (hopefully more reliable) car but now i dont know.. i dont want a 500$ piece of crap that'll cost me a grand every month to fix something new.. in the wniter
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I've been pretty lucky. Other than Brakes, body work & paint job (all done by myself, so not paying an arm & leg for labour) the car has been pretty good.
Right before the focus came back on the road last year, the Justy fuel pump went out on me, I took my sweet ass time to replace it since I didnt really need it anymore. But I replaced the fuel pump (Serioulsly, a whole 15 Minutes!! :o ) adn she runs even better now than the day i bought her.
You cand ef find something reliable/safetied for $1000.00
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I need a new beater... a drunk driver T-boned my cousin on saturday and wrote off my dads beater 94 sundance... rrr... good thing that bastard got arrested!
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scoobasteve,Aug 2 2005, 10:46 AM Wrote:I need a new beater... a drunk driver T-boned my cousin on saturday and wrote off my dads beater 94 sundance... rrr... good thing that bastard got arrested!
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Never mind the 'dance, how is your cousin? :blink:
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she's fine... i wouldnt be worried about the car if anyone was hurt.
that sundance took a beating though... i'll post pictures when i have a chance.
RIP Sundance.
:( there goes another of my 200k mile club k-cars. my collection is thinning out.
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