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I know you wear one, but giving advice on tampering with these systems is a horrible idea.

The occupant sensor is passenger side only, and tampering that will disable the airbag. So not only would you not be wearing a belt, but you would have no airbag either. Even the driver side adjusts airbag deployment based on if the belt is buckled or not. It is stupidity to not wear one and...

Your bottneck is in the heads. Intake and Exhaust do nothing and can actually hurt your performance. They show dyno gains, but there are several variables to engine horsepower. If they dynoed the new intake system on a colder day, BAM! We have a HP gain!!!

The Corolla does display climate info (at least on the Entune Premium it does). Maybe I oughta wait until NEX and Maestro improve. It is a relatively new system so I expect that not everything will be perfect the first round of their release. I also see the base Corolla and Standard Entune...

Not built in, but with the iDataLink Maestro. They still have not released one for our cars yet, but if you pair that with a Pioneer NEX head unit, it is supposed to pretty much keep all of your factory options. The steering wheel buttons, voice command, nav, back-up camera, bluetooth...

I wouldn't recommend going with softer springs, as it will reduce how well the car handles to the point that it can be dangerous in an emergency maneuver.

Car is 17 years old. Any car that old is going to have bolts that strip out or sieze.

+12 would be the dome lights. For ACC ... you'd probably have to go to the junction box.

It looks like the NEX line plans on eliminating issues with stereo integration when coupled with a aupported component to drive everything. That will be cool to see released for our cars.

Rear spoilers aren't needed on a FWD anyway. Just looks. I like the factory one on the S. It's subtle.

Annnnnd that's why my '96 GT wasn't my daily, LOL. Fun? Oh yeah. Reliable? Ummmm ... no. But then again, Corollas don't make enough horsepower to break parts :-X

My next car that I buy will be a 5.0 Mustang when I graduate college, but the Corolla stays because I know it'll get me from point A to B reliably, and Mustangs are always temperamental.

I was actually looking at a Focus ST when I was looking at buying a 2014 Corolla S, but man ... I couldn't shake off the nightmare that the 2003 was. I guess Ford is getting better. After the early 90's their reliability went to hell all the way up until a few years ago. I had a Mercury Topaz...

Is that the AVH-3400BT? I had that system in my 2008 Matrix. Loved it. Looks nice! Do the steering wheel controls work with it? I'm assuming that you lost the ability to change some of the car settings with this swap.

Tight tolerances demand synthetic oil and a low weight. Using GTX 5w20 on a 2ZR is going to give you problems when the oil can't properly lubricate rotating assemblies at tight tolerances. That leads to carbonization and sludge build up.

I had the bad lock cylinder as well. And also: Broken hood latch. Broken battery clamp. Power Steering Pump (the only thing that broke in warranty) Bad Clockspring. Broken Driver Side Window (manual). Cracked upper intake box. Completed rusted 4 year old alternator. When I gave it to Toyota...

Have you blown a clutch slave cylinder yet? Or do you have the automatic. Had a 2003 ZX3 with the 2.0 Zetec and the MTX-75. Car was a complete pile. The friggin' gas pedal broke on it, I swear to God. Haven't bought a new Ford since.

LMFAO! Oh I would pay money to see that video.

That would be cool to see.

When I worked at a tire shop in high school, we'd always get a new guy that would tighten that first lug full blast on the impact gun, then go to tighten the second lug and break the stud clean off the first one.