Sorry for the bad photo, having been bit by a brown recluse previously, I am keen to avoid it happening again. I am normally team spider eat the other bugs - but if this is a brown recluse it's gotta go. Am I tripping? That's a little brown fiddle on its back, right?
Ok - I'll take your word this little dude is a hobo spider and can live for now. Eat good my little buddy, just don't eat me.
Two years ago I bought this beautiful b.....beast of a car. 42k on the odometer - a 2015 used scat pack manual - to hear it told by most - that was a disaster waiting to happen.
Well we just hit 95k miles this week - and I just had her serviced:
new Bilstein B6's all the way around;
brake pads all the way around;
trans/diff/brake - and what was supposed to just be a cooling flush turned into a new radiator and water pump (replacing the factory parts - which were just starting to go)
That's it this time, and prior to this only:
- coils and plugs at 80k - preventative measure by me (and a sale making it worthwhile)
- did the rotors and pads once before when I first got her. Besides oil changes, a few sets of tires, and one battery last summer - that's it.
She's been my daily and I've put damn near 60k miles on her in two years. So if you're hesitating to buy a used one, here's proof that they are resilient cars. I drive her spiritedly every day, not banging off the redline, but she's not babied. She's been street parked almost the entire time I've owned her. Then in November, I drove her across the country. Starting at the Atlantic Ocean in Wilmington, NC straight through to the Pacific ocean in Oregon packed to the brim with me and my now wife comfortably blasting across this wild country comfortable and safe. She handles the mountain roads of Appalachia and the heights of Rockies much better than anyone would believe. I wouldn't recommend too much snow driving, but we've done a little of it, and we might've stopped over night to avoid chaining up, but we've always gotten where we were going thus far.
Simply put, I've had a lot of fun cars, but this one is by far my favorite. Just felt compelled because after this service she drives seemingly like new, and I'd hate for anyone out there on the fence to miss out on this experience. Buy it. Drive it. Love it.