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Old Mar 27, 2010 | 04:00 AM
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Any good recommendations for springs/lip kits? These are the tail lights i want:

Old Mar 27, 2010 | 04:02 AM
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where are you located?
Old Mar 27, 2010 | 04:07 AM
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I can only imagine what spoiler & tails he/she is thinking about getting.


(Future) unless prevented lol
Old Mar 27, 2010 | 04:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Scooter4
Ah I gotcha. I feel stupid. Anyways, this car has 44K miles on it and is in near perfect shape. What would have been a pretty good price to pay for it?
I would say maybe $11-12k.. then again I haven't looked at any used tC in a while. What was the price you paid for it?
Old Mar 27, 2010 | 05:33 AM
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I would say maybe $11-12k.. then again I haven't looked at any used tC in a while. What was the price you paid for it?
Originally priced at 11,987. I ended up getting it for 10,070.

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Old Mar 27, 2010 | 06:15 AM
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Nice deal.. Congrats on your new car.
Old Mar 27, 2010 | 06:45 AM
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Viniati spoiler if anything, imo. Such a clean look...
Old Mar 27, 2010 | 07:14 AM
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Since everyone is throwing in their 2 cents, I would say, get yourself a Quickshifter/shortshifter and some cable bushings. It is the ONLY bolt on mod that you will notice a difference in.
Old Mar 27, 2010 | 12:20 PM
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Drop it 2 inches and put in a turbo and call it a day...
Old Mar 27, 2010 | 05:26 PM
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DONT get underglow! not really that sweet anymore imo and yes get some htechs possibly and a short shifter or something.
Old Mar 28, 2010 | 07:22 AM
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STICKERS! LOTS OF STICKERS!
Old Mar 28, 2010 | 07:30 AM
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if you lower it that will be your favorite mod unless u boost it.
Old Mar 28, 2010 | 03:01 PM
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Just installed my TWM short shifter, stage 2. Well worth my money, and i just ordered my TRD exhaust and Tein H-Tech, definetly do the short shifter. Than lower.
Old Mar 28, 2010 | 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted by KillaSpiceTSW
Im trying to figure out whats best. To me the TC sits a little higher up in the rear then the front and it seems every spring lowers the front more then the rear which would make me think the rear would sit even higher, and I dont like that.
I used to have Tanabe DF210 springs. 1.7 front/2.2 rear. Very even-looking drop.
Old Mar 28, 2010 | 05:47 PM
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you also have to figure out what YOU want...

do you want to work more on aesthetics or performance? there's a lot of mods for both sides.
Old Mar 28, 2010 | 07:59 PM
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Oh Tanabes lower more in the rear, I like that! It just seems to me getting the Tein springs that lower more in the front then rear would look a little silly seeing as the fronts already sit lower. I like how Tanabe does the opposite. Thanks for the info! :D
Old Mar 28, 2010 | 11:47 PM
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STICKERS! LOTS OF STICKERS!
I heard each sticker adds 5-10 horsepower.
Old Mar 29, 2010 | 12:07 AM
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Looks pretty sweet Scott!, need to tint it 5%, smoke ur taillights and powdercoat your stock wheels Black.
Old Mar 29, 2010 | 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Scooter4
What would have been a pretty good price to pay for it?
I paid $4,500 for my '05 tC with 81K miles from the original owner. He had bought a new mustang and simply didn't need the tC anymore, being my bud he took my offer. I started doing functional mods like window tint and a hidden hitch(bike rack). I would recommend doing whatever you like, steering away from the fads on ScionLife can be a good thing sometimes.


As for those tails...my GF loves them, so i'll never put them on my car. Ever since she was the designated driver she's been trying to stealz teh kar.

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Old Mar 30, 2010 | 02:04 AM
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drop, intake, foglights, tint
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