Hello all,
Bought my Legnum (Pearl White FL 2000) about a year and a half ago - as a prior owner of both station wagons and turbo AWD's (Evo/WRX) it seemed like a good idea as I need the carrying capacity.
I intended on keeping the Legnum for maybe a year or two before upgrading to something newer - it's the oldest car I've owned since I was a teenager and I need reliable transport. Problem is what do I upgrade it to that's newer? Not exactly many performance station wagons around these days outside of the Commodore, and a 4WD isn't engaging to drive.
My Legnum has been perfectly reliable, and it sure as hell beats owning a bloody Falcon Wagon, but it's bone stock, is an Auto and has just over 200,000km on the odometer so is due for a major service (& lifters are noisy etc, usual stuff).
I miss owning an Evo. That said, I've driven a friends modified manual Legnum with exhaust/coilovers so I know they can be pretty fun too - but mine isn't that at the moment.
I've been looking for used parts for mine since I've owned it (see my 'wanting to buy' threads) and there's just no parts around anymore.
So I've got three options,
* Buy something newer (I still don't know what),
* Spend the money on mine: major service, new coilovers, custom exhaust, manual conversion, retune, anything else that needs sorting.
* Sell mine & buy a already modified manual Legnum with lower K's that has been looked after.
Options/thoughts?
I'm hesitant buying another car because it's a unknown risk given the age of these things now - my car isn't perfect but I know the mechanicals are in pretty good nick. But buying all new parts for a Legnum is not going to be cheap, and not going to kid myself that these cars are only getting older, and parts are only going to be getting harder to find and the chance of a mechanical failure is significantly higher with a modified vehicle.
Bought my Legnum (Pearl White FL 2000) about a year and a half ago - as a prior owner of both station wagons and turbo AWD's (Evo/WRX) it seemed like a good idea as I need the carrying capacity.
I intended on keeping the Legnum for maybe a year or two before upgrading to something newer - it's the oldest car I've owned since I was a teenager and I need reliable transport. Problem is what do I upgrade it to that's newer? Not exactly many performance station wagons around these days outside of the Commodore, and a 4WD isn't engaging to drive.
My Legnum has been perfectly reliable, and it sure as hell beats owning a bloody Falcon Wagon, but it's bone stock, is an Auto and has just over 200,000km on the odometer so is due for a major service (& lifters are noisy etc, usual stuff).
I miss owning an Evo. That said, I've driven a friends modified manual Legnum with exhaust/coilovers so I know they can be pretty fun too - but mine isn't that at the moment.
I've been looking for used parts for mine since I've owned it (see my 'wanting to buy' threads) and there's just no parts around anymore.
So I've got three options,
* Buy something newer (I still don't know what),
* Spend the money on mine: major service, new coilovers, custom exhaust, manual conversion, retune, anything else that needs sorting.
* Sell mine & buy a already modified manual Legnum with lower K's that has been looked after.
Options/thoughts?
I'm hesitant buying another car because it's a unknown risk given the age of these things now - my car isn't perfect but I know the mechanicals are in pretty good nick. But buying all new parts for a Legnum is not going to be cheap, and not going to kid myself that these cars are only getting older, and parts are only going to be getting harder to find and the chance of a mechanical failure is significantly higher with a modified vehicle.
