wow you must feel like you have a Benz now.

 

all I can say is life ain't always easy. Yea, I love my benz...I mean maxima. I can proudly say that every car I've owned has been earned. Not saying any of you didn't earn yours, just saying be happy you have something worth modding, cause your car could look like that!

 

Well Said.

 

...and then there's the E55

 

Three words ....

Credit Card debt

 

I thought you were working at sears?

 

freshly turned 18....no credit.... i got turned down by the American Eagle Credit Card.. for lack of credit history....

 

Trust me, young brother, it doesn't get any easier to afford this expensive stuff when you have gone to college, earned two Masters Degrees and worked for 18 years. At 41, I still can't afford to do my car up right. Maybe my line of work is the reason, it doesn't make me very wealthy.

 

not that simple for us 95-96ers

 

i feel your pain bro, but keep the good work it will pay off.
i had the same thing going on with me i had a little break cause i was a part time student but i had to do 300 internship hours for the semester and could only do 20 hours a week at my job. it a tough job but you got it.

 

i bought my car when i was 16 (i started working at this mail order computer place when i was 12 to make the downpayment). it was right before junior year and in those two years i bought and installed a LOT of mods. come to think of it I haven't installed ANY mods at all after graduating.

here's my advice. don't stress about school. learn how to cheat the system. do your homework in class, take proper notes so you can do well on tests. only do as much work as you have to, but do well on tests.

get a job.

not ****ing banana republic. get a decent job. can't get any hookups from friends or family? go work at FedEx Kinkos. $8.50 starting. work like 20hrs a week or more.

check the for sale/trade forums frequently. i bought a lot of parts second hand. often the people you buy them from will also help you install them and you'll meet more likeminded people. I bought my Y-pipe (cattman SS) for something like $250 in awesome shape. I bought my sprints and AGX's for $400, also in great shape. I actually bought both from the same person (BriGuyMax) at different times and Brian installed the Y-Pipe for $20 and the suspension for free (we basically swapped suspensions). I bought a Stillen strut bar for $60 (this was before the eBay bars).

Be involved in the maxima community. not just on this website, but find people in your area and hang out. i've never had a bad time with someone from here and have made some great friends. more on topic, someone that someone knows is ALWAYS selling something or trading something.

 

Try this:
Still in HS
10 hours a week @ 8.50/hr
and 15.4342342 miles/gallon

 

its so hard to mod my Max because..

- I have a $300/month payment on my '04 Grand Cherokee
- I've spent over $2,000 in maintenance & repairs to undo my brother's neglect .. and I'm still not done yet (new set of foglights & a driver's side mirror)
- My mom is currently driving the Max b/c my oldest sister has my Mom's Chevy Blazer until my sister gets her Saab convertible within the next week or so and gives my Mom the Blazer back
- The roads are terrible here in MI (this is why I'm not lowering my Max)

 

forget about the car in highschool, focus on getting good marks and getting into a good university. then during summer months of university save some $ and use it towards the car.

 

**** complaining about high school.. just wait till college. High school is pretty much free. and if you guys need money bad enough i've heard that the University of Kansas buys ********* for 60k....

 

High school is heaven.. you still live at home, you dont buy anything for yourself, you dont have to feed yourself, and I can guarantee you dont even pay for insurance and if you did, its a meager few hundred bucks compared to here where Im getting raped for $4,000 a year plus car payments, plus school, rent, etc... you just pay for gas and go...

Wait till real life comes and hits you. Rent, car payments, insurance, g/f, etc...

I wish I was back in highschool, life was so easy.

 

Hey man my fiance works at blockbuster in Baja Mexico, she is the manager and guess how much she makes per hour? $12.00 Pesos!! that like $1.20 Dollars! that sucks huh? even worst, the other employers who organize the all the they make around $6.00 pesos that is like .60 cents per hour.......that really sucks huh?

good thing I dont work in mexico, Also why in other states to be a full College student you need 16 units?? Here In Southern California you only need 12 units to be a fulltime student....

 

Rent - still live at home
Car Payments - my '04 Grand Cherokee
Insurance - split
G/F - don't have & don't want either. Happily single

 

wow some of you gotta fine yourselves a good office job i was all lube and car jobs til i got smart got an office job with computers and fixing mail machines for the usps and pitney bowes making big bills now doing tech support. though i have a 6 month old daughter as yall can see in my sig i still am modding both my 95 and 99 to heck both are getting rims in the next month and the 95 has to finish being painted and yada ya but pulling over 2K a month is a GREAT thing and i love it compared to all my other crap jobs

 

i work in an office, job isn't too great (as well as a few of the coworkers), but helps pay my bills and gives me some spending $$ for whatever ... i'm working on going back to college, started fall '97, stopped in '02/'03 due to personal issues so I didn't quite get my undergrad. degree, now I'm planning on going back to college and getting my I.S. degree in business so I can have a far better job and make more $$ by 30

 

I totally feel you...geta job if u dont already have one...thats what I have to do.

 

sweet! I only need one anyway.


as for the high school kids....i know you don't have much money to spend, but I'll give you guys a lot of credit. You're here posting about your sorrows instead of being like most teenagers that rice out their cars. Hearing terms like "y-pipe" and "red/clears" coming from you says you're doing something right! Keep it up...and enjoy high school while you still can!

 

Credit Card debt is the American way!

Besides....

You'll pay it off someday .

 

I've gotta say, I've got it pretty good. I payed half for my car (this was a deal with my parents to keep me out of a sports car -- or else I'd be driving a Z32 right now. Little did they know that the Max will take a Z from a dig...) Anyways, I work a job at a very popular BBQ restaurant, and get 6.70/hr plus about 2-8/hr on tips. The g/f however, is killing me. It's all the little expenses that'll beurn a hole in my pocket. Right now I have a couple g's stored away, and so far have done the home depot-esqe mods. I've been spending a reasonable amount on all the maintenence I've done, plus Knock Sensor, and a complete clutch job ($700+). Oh yea, $100 a month on insurance too. I love my car...
Oh, and I'm sooo thankful that my tranny failed under the 30 day warantee my car had....that would've sucked big time

 

I just got back from Chicago, and I saw so many rich kids in their EVO's G35's TL-S, 300CI's... Makes me mad!!

 

i cant even think about mods right now....im payin $350/month insurance(****in NYC), $200/month loan, $200/month gas, $100/month phone bill, an untold amount of money on my gf, and all kinds of other stupid expenses, im still in hs and i dont get a single dollar from my parents.....so the mods r gonna have to wait

 

join the friggen millitary

 

haha ya youll be *****en when you have real bills to pay. somtimes u cant afford gas to get to work so u have to scrounge up change that hopfully people droped under your seat

 

who needs mods anyway? isnt maxima like one of the best cars for us poor people? do the stuff u can afford to do, dont worry about all the ricer/racer mods, u dont use them once u have them anyway.

 

tell me about it! in my area I see just about the same kids w/ G35's, TL's, 300C's, but add any Lexus (IS, GS, LS, etc..) and any Cadillac (Escalade (EXT, ESV), CTS, SRX), or any BMW series to the mix

 

oh man, seriously. What I would give to be in highschool again.

 

same thing around here, very yuppie area.



of course my favorite part of highschool was whooping those kids in their parents car with my car

 

average 15hrs/$3.00hr+tips($30 +) I make decent money for my age while still being a HS student. I want to mod my car just as much as anyone else wants to but i have to fix the things that are wrong with my car first. Modding takes time Most people that you see in the magazines have had there car for a few years.

 

ohh, i would say about $20,000 to a state school to get a teachers degree... lol

 

 

Maxaholic= paying on credit card cuz you're at your limit , but you need to buy more mods- and you take your gf to wendy's cuz you have to buy more mods - and you have to take a loan from grandparents for school cuz you have to buy more mods

 

hmm r u in public highschool... its harder in college im paying 26 a year.. grand.. a year.... my car is neglected.. i took her out for VDAY and got hr detailed her.. the works.. hand wash..w ax shampooing...

 

Now that I think about it, thats why I always see modded car at fast food places we tend to spend soo much money on the cars that, thats all we can really afford to eat. I've yet to see a Modded cat at Red Lobster or Olive garden.

Were all Poor!

 

^^^ehh fast food is better anyways After college is when the big bucks start rolling in.

 

or my $8k worth of credit card debt. I have actually acquired a second job and its gravy. I make 10.50/hr at my full time job and $9/hr at my part time job. I usually end up working 65-75 hours a week. trying to knock that credit card debt down a bit so I can start saving. Got some big plans for the max this year and then its money towards a house.