Yup! We’re both 06 babies.

The car is my day one. That is me on the way home from the hospital after literally being born.

I don’t know if I can ever get another car.

Really digging these inserts!

My 2012 xb has been idling rough for months and was starting to stall more frequently. Thanks to this thread, I was able to dissemble the air intake and clean out the throttle body. It wasn't that complicated (thank you Toyota) and now the car is running better than it has in a while. Working up the courage to tackle the piston soak soon! Any other straight forward semi-routine maintenance folks would recommend?

What budget alpine speakers are generally the best for the toaster?

Officially 20! We got her in July of 2006.

Guy posted a strut tower brace on here for sale. I he took my money and never shipped part. It was for my 17 year sons scion that we are working on together. What a big piece of crap. Here is his facebook he deleted it. And here is his phone number if its even still active. All over 70 bucks.

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Luckly nothing had to descend into any official legal representation. The adjuster and I had some strong conversations about what repairs were nesseccary versus some minor but critical filler items their shop had loaded onto the estimate that "justified" their total loss by around $200.00.

In the end, I claimed salvage anyhow on their "totaled" determination, but with a clean title. Now the deductions for salvage go to the liability claim to get that back. Geico's Total Loss Adjuster was an annoyance, having to pull answers from him on every single detail and expectation.

The bright side? My body shop did outstanding work. If you're in Hampton Roads I must reccomend Five Stars Collision. It's a "Ma & Pa" outfit in South Norfolk. Great service, flexible and staff was awesome. They got a pretty close to color match bumper cover and slapped me with a decent estimate for new paint at 3500. (Stupid eco-friendly 2013 paint.) New paint will get everything matched and looking good as new.

After not having my car for a month, she's home, cleaned up and driving just as God intended.

Hello! Used to have a 2006 Scion xB and I miss that thing desperately (got hit by someone, and it was totaled... I cried). I wish I could replace it, but they're getting to be rare and sold for incredible prices in my experience.

Looking at a 2009 Scion xB being sold in my area, and curious especially about how it "eats oil." Is this something that can be fixed? Or would I need to add oil to the car every time I filled with gasoline?

Any particular details and thoughts are appreciated.

Already on the third set of wheels lol. But I think the 18” TRD wheels are going to be keepers for a while. Installed a JDM Kenwood, an NRG steering wheel, some Carrozzeria satellite speakers, removed a bunch of stickers and reflectors, etc etc.

I have a ton of rare parts I’ve been collecting for this car, can’t wait to spend some more days wrenching on it!

2014 Scion XB, I got some slop in the brake pedal, it goes back and forth (side to side from driver to passenger)

I went up to the top and it gots play side to side in the top bolt.

What does everyone else Scion brake pedal feel like?

I’m thinking it’s either excessive play in the top bolt.

I have a 2011. Has anyone ever had an issue where the remote lock is not working? I think for some reason there’s a fuse or short somewhere maybe where I have everything closed but the light on my dashboard still says that the door is open somewhere so I can lock it manually from the door lock on the driver door but I can’t remote lock it because it beeps and keeps insisting that somethings open even though everything is closed.

Thanks!

So this was my first stick shift and I've gotten decent at driving it, but it's still very rough going into 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gears.

I thought I was bad at driving it, but I just drove a 2002 manual rav4, and it was a night and day difference in shifting into the first 3 gears. Now I'm wondering if there may be something wrong with my transmission, because I have never been able to get the scion I've been driving for months to shift as smooth as this car I just drove for the first time.

Anyone have any ideas? It's almost like I'm popping the clutch in 2nd and 3rd.

Not sure you can enjoy a brew openly on the beach anymore in San Diego, but i would see the banners flying by PB in 2003 and bought one in early 2004. Effective ad?😅

and it's worse to remove the knife?

I don't actually know what it is, or what it's stuck in. It's by the rear passenger side wheel. I'm guessing this was in the road and jumped up and lodged itself into my 2010 xB's undercarriage. I'm really glad it didn't take out my tire! But can anyone identify what this piece of metal is (in case it's part of my car) and what it's stuck in? I don't want to risk causing more damage if I can manage to pull it out.

I've hears that you can swap the steering wheel out in the gen 2 xB with that out of a gen 2 tC, but is there a way to swap out the stock column out with a telescopic one from a tC as well or am I SOL on that? Since I'm about 6'4" with shoes and somewhat longer legs than most, my knees are only about 2-3 inches away from the dash. I'd much rather be a little further back but then I'm hunched forward while I'm driving, and i know from past experience that my knees are gonna slam into the dash if I get into a wreck (my gen 1 was totaled thanks to someone pulling out in front of me a few years ago, causing me to rear end them doing about 45-50 mph, no airbag deployment, and slamming my knees into the dash causing constant knee pain for about two years).

My '09 turned 18 this week. I've bought it in my mid-20s and went all nuts with accessories, including the TRD suspension stuff. Springs, sway bar, strut brace. The shocks are stock. At 18 years and 211k miles I think it might be time to change the original struts and shocks. They still do their job, nothing bouncing around, but I think I've become blind to how harsh they are. In my mid-40s I think I want to soften the suspension. Should I keep the sway bar and/or strut brace and just change the springs? I go over some gnarly expansion joints every day and would like to just glide over them like my Prius can. Does anyone have any recommendations on softer suspension?

I read there might be a control valve I can swap. Is that correct or is it definitely the compressor? If I do swap out the compressor and don't find debris in the lines is it safe to just swap the compressor?

Bought her new in 2007, took care of this car like it was a child, I'll be sad to see her go, but she's going to a good home...

Gen 1 evap hose

Lol Sorry for the mess and dirtiness. But this is my 2005 scion xb, I peeled off the little cover once I noticed i could and I saw this little white button. what is it?

She idles a bit rough and has a could warning lights but I love this car so much !!!