Originally Posted by shadowhawk

ALLLLLLLLL-right-eeeee!!!
Yup! So I picked the car up on Saturday, and finally met moriarty and his partner, D...(I don't remember moriarty mentioning his name, so in case D'd prefer it stay relatively anonymous, I'll just use that)! They're just as cool and helpful in person as they are online and on the phone.

When I got there, D points out the car, and says, "There's your car." And I was struck again with how nice the tC looks, magnified by the "wow, that's gonna be mine" feeling.

Originally Posted by shadowhawk

Also, the iPod connection didn't work, initially, but moriarty and D found the issues to check for, and sicced a technician on it. More evidence on how those guys rock.

Originally Posted by shadowhawk

The drive home was great! what a neat feelin'. This is my first new car purchase, and it's maybe the first car I consider "all mine". Most of the way home, I'd come back to, wow, this is mine! Anyway, so I was trying to vary my speed on the way home... a couple of songs at 60 mph, then 70, then 80, then back down--with drifting sometimes, and then once or twice creeping up to a peak at 90 before immediately letting it slow itself down after that.

The TRD shocks/struts/springs combination was a little stiffer than I'm used to, but I'm fine with that.

Originally Posted by shadowhawk

Today, I took her to Stinson Beach, which involves a lot of twisty road going up one side of minor mountains/big hills, and down the other side. Now, I'm not skilled twisty-driver, but yeah, that was tons of fun, and she stuck it all...though my meager skills probably can't get her anywhere near her limits yet.

Originally Posted by shadowhawk

Some things I'm noticing:
1) The iPod-radio, at least, has automatic volume adjustment for ambient noise levels! So when you have the windows and/or sunroof open, it compensates for the added noise by turning itself up. It also adjusts for road noise, say, in highway vs. city driving. The feature works well, at least from all my driving today!

3) The iPod upgrade is great! Being able to control the ipod from the steering wheel and the head unit is really nice. Er...it would sometimes be useful to pause the song as it's playing, but I can't seem to find a way to do that. Am I missing something?

4) When parking, I get a lot closer to curbs than I realize I am... not sure what that's about...maybe 'cause the bottom of the window is a lot higher on my body than when I'm driving the volvo (88 240 DL)? Maybe it's fatter than the volvo, too, but it doesn't seem significantly different.

5) There's a minor rattle going on somewhere behind the driver, I think... I can't be sure yet that it's there, or where it is, though...'cause I've been having too much fun with driving, windows/sunroof open, radio goin....

6) The sunroof doesn't open quite as I expect it to... It seems to stop on its own partway along opening or closing, even when I'm holding the button down... and once or twice, I seem to have managed somehow to get it to open most of the way kind of automatically, by pushing the switch somehow and letting go. I skimmed through the manual, though, just in case it is supposed to do that, but I didn't see a section about the sunroof...maybe I simply missed it?
EDIT: I found around yoursciontc.com forums that it's supposed to have stops in it. Plus a tC manual page number to refer to (page 26). I'll have to go re-look.

So there it is, the report from the end of day 2 with the new tC.

Oh, when I got it, it had about 20 miles on it. Now it has about 320.
:-)