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Just wanted to pop in and say hi. I have been lurking here reading all the good information on the Vibe in order to make an educated decision. Well, I finally took the plunge, went to the dealer today and picked up a new 2004 Vibe in Frosty - two tone. So far I am really pleased, of course I only have 34 miles on it now so.. Anyway, this forum has been a great source of information.

Read down to the bottom for an update on my long-term Vibe ownership experience....

Welcome to genvibe and enjoy your stay. What did you get? AWD, Base, GT.

Ah yes, I should have mentioned the details I suppose. It is a base with the Power Package, the 16 inch factory alloys and the ABS with Auto trans. Pretty much equiped the way I had hoped.

Welcome to GenVibe. Glad you decided to join up and post.I own an 03 Frosty, similarly equipped as yours except monotone.

(removed)! NEW MEMBER :DWhee, near Wisconsin too (Well, neighbor state)Looks like we got another Vibe in for the Michigan caravan this summer

Thanks for the warm welcome! I am looking forward to many years of Vibe use and visits to the GENVIBE webpages.

Welcome...Enjoy your stay!

Hey welcome to this great forum I am relatively new here as well and it's been very helpful so far.My Vibe is pretty much the same as yours, except mine is a 2003.

Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but I was looking back today, at when I first got my Vibe. It's been almost 10 years now since I picked it up, and almost 150,000 miles later. The car is still running great absolutely great. Interior is still in great shape, the only thing showing wear is the wonderful Delco radio buttons. The outside still is shiny and bright in the Frosty color.

When I got the car in late 2003 my son was 6. He's 16 now. So what's a dad to do, but I decided to give my son the Vibe to use to go back and forth to school in. It was either buy him a used car, or give him my "used" car and buy myself a new car. So a new car for me it was..

I really liked my Pontiacs, the Vibe was my 6th Pontiac. However, no more Pontiac. Didn't like anything GM was currently offering. I ended up picking up a Kia Optima. I won't say the Kia is like a Pontiac, but it has a lot of style features that made me feel at home with the vehicle. The standard fog lights, tiger snout grill and the red back lit gauges. Being designed by the ex-Audi designer helped. So far, I am thrilled with my purchase. The Optima drives great, looks great and is an all around nice vehicle. I picked up an EX model which has the leather and all the toys, UVO radio, pano sunroof. Doesn't have the turbo like the Optima SX, but still does pretty good with a 200HP motor, which was about 70 more HP than I had in the Vibe. To top it off it gets great gas mileage, even better than I was getting with the Vibe at about 33 MPG mixed highway driving. I can only hope the Optima will be as reliable as this Vibe has been. Kia has come a long way and has made great strides.

I really can't complain about the Vibe at all. With just standard maintenance and 148,000+ miles on the clock it hasn't needed any really major repairs. Brakes and Tires, a fan module and that's about it. I hope it keeps running great. My son was happy to get it. I kept it very nice, and it looks like a 2-3 year old car when you see it, not a 10 year old one.

The Vibe is a great car. Very practical economical and yet fun to drive and nice looking too. Hopefully everyone will have as much luck and good times with their Vibe as I have with mine.

Nice to read an update from a member who was here from the beginning (or close to it)! It's great to hear that the Vibe has been running strong for 10+ years now! I am not at all surprised to hear your son was happy to receive it to drive to school, etc! I can't lie, I was hoping you were going to say you got yourself a 2nd gen (2009-2010) Vibe to drive, but the Optima is definitely a nice vehicle. As you said, Kia has definitely come a long way.

Guess you will have to your boy this way too.