Found this beauty, 2015 Turbo, and I love it!! Sadly the paint is a bit oxidized on top, so if anyone knows a quality painter in Vegas, let me know 😊 What amazes me is that I am 6’6”, and I fit so very comfortably. The pep is amazing. Only has 78,000 miles on her!
✨Baby’s first accident✨
I potentially totaled my car today. I was at a stop light, saw the light turn green, cars started to move, I started to move, then like a big dumb dingus I looked down at my phone to order a coffee and then-
BOOM! Rear-ended an SUV!
Couldn’t have been going too fast since it was shortly after I started moving, but clearly fast enough to ruin my poor girl’s entire face. Everyone was okay, no airbags deployed, their vehicle has damage/scrapes to the bumper, but mine is in rough shape. I admitted to the driver that I was looking down at my phone. What good would it be if I lied to them? This is certainly a wake-up call to me, so hopefully it can be a wake-up call to everyone else.
I just want to give a PSA to PUT YOUR DAMN PHONE DOWN WHILE YOU’RE DRIVING GOOD GOD IT CAN WAIT. You don’t want to end up like me!
First things first I’m okay! 💜 I bought this car from a junkyard May 2025 for $900. My mechanic gave me a hell of a deal and we did an engine swap, changed throttle body, and spark plugs and coils. Spent about 2.5k on all of that. I just bought her new tires and filled her up this morning. She was a good car to me. Check engine light came on for the Cat and she still rode like a champ. The longest I had a car and I wasn’t planning on letting her go anytime soon. It just hurts knowing I didn’t lose her because she finally gave out on me. I lost her because of someone else’s mistake.
Rest in peace Fanita. 🧡🕊️🚗
I’d always wanted a Velo, from when I saw my first one back in 17. I’d actually got the opportunity to buy one for my birthday 6 months ago, a 13 NAV with 154k miles for 3,500 to which I snapped it up.
It had plenty of issues, no headlights, sunroof didn’t work, brake lights goofed, and plenty others but I didn’t mind. I learned how to fix everything I could and got quite familiar with the car.
After 5k miles I’d thought I’d gotten it to a state where I could start outfitting it with cosmetics, suspension, and maybe even a cheeky air intake however I was struck with a P1326.
Instead of worrying with a full engine rebuild I’ll be sequestering her off to my family’s car graveyard where, when I have the time and know how, I’ll replace the 1.6L with something else.
Overall I had a blast with my lil shitbox, had a lot of fun working on it and driving. Sad to see it be defeated by a damn fault that was baked into it by the manufacturer