GenVibe - Community for Pontiac Vibe Enthusiasts

Hey all, I signed up the other day and figured I'd finally post something up here. Friday I picked up a 2004 Pontiac Vibe GT. Came with the 6-speaker system and a moonroof. 81,000 miles. Picked it up for $5,900 and I'm still in shock that I paid so little for it!I came from a 2004 Mazda RX-8, and a 2007 Honda Civic Si before that. Yup, I'm downgrading a lot. Why? I can afford the cars, but I just recently married to my amazing wife and we decided to pay off debt and downgrade cars so that we could have everything paid off in 6 months to a year so she could go back to nursing school full-time. As a result I wanted something fun to drive, but extremely cheap. We got a 2003 Mazda Protege5 for her, and the Vibe for me. I'll be honest I NEVER thought I'd say I own a Pontiac product, but the engine sold it for me. As you can tell by my previous cars I love high-revving engines and the 2ZZGE is a fantastic little powerplant. Add in a comfortable car with plenty of options and a dirt-cheap out the door price and I couldn't be happier! This is one fun and cheap little car!I only have one picture of it so far as I've been too busy to snap any others:I look forward to posting on here and am already hard at work reading up on everything I can find!Two extra little things:1.) The Pontiac emblems have faded from red to pink. It cracks me up every time I see them. I think I'm going to leave them on there because of stupid awesome that is.2.) I'm going to buy as many TRD parts as I can for the same stupid awesome reason. There's a lot of ignorant people in this area so they'll flip out when they see TRD on a Pontiac. lol

Welcome to GenVibe!!!

nice find!welcome to the cool kids' table!

Welcome to GenVibe! Thanks for the photo in your first post! You've been paying attention!

Quote, originally posted by RWatters »2.) I'm going to buy as many TRD parts as I can for the same stupid awesome reason. There's a lot of ignorant people in this area so they'll flip out when they see TRD on a Pontiac. lolWhat happened to getting out of debt? Just kidding. Welcome!

Welcome to GenVibe! Awesome Price!

The parts will come in due time. The two main goals are continue to pay off debt and to get what needs fixed, fixed: - The weatherstripping around the drivers-side door is shot. - It has a couple of spots that need paint-work. The clearcoat on the bottom of the rear bumper is peeling around a scuff, the paint on the plastic trim is peeling on the passengers-side rear door, and it has a ding on the hatch that exposed the bare metal and is starting to show signs of rust now.- It needs a coolant and transmission flush. Coolant I'll probably go with extended life Prestone and MT90 for the transmission fluid as it seems that it's pretty much universally suggested on anything 6-speed that's mated to a 2ZZ.- Fix the sound system. The stock M&T headunit looked pretty worn, and the CD player wouldn't recognize my burned CD's. I replaced it with a JVC double-din unit (KW-XR610) and ordered an Infinity Basslink II online as the stock system seriously lacks in the bass department and I wanted an easy solution to that. Those two fix that one in a jiffy!Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!

congratsits weird seeing a GT that looks like a base

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Very nice choice for an affordable ride ... you WON'T regret it Welcome to this forum When you do get out of debt, UPGRADE to the 09/10 Vibes, you'll be glad you did!

Welcome! You're not downgrading, but then again, we're biased.

Welcome to the GV forums!

welcome to the family, and congrats on a nice find!

Welcome, and what a beautiful shade of red for a Vibe! Is that what they call "Salsa"?