...But better late than never!
I bought my 2014 Molten Orange FiST about three years ago with 30k miles on it and am now inching closer to the big six digit milestone every day. It's the best car I've ever owned and we plan to keep in the family as long as we can. It's been a great little adventure car, daily driver, mtb hauler, forest road cruiser, and learner car for our teenage daughter.
I got it from the previous owner with almost all the mods I would have done myself: RMM, throttle pedal spacer, Cobb shift knob, Accessport, mud flaps, and symposer delete. It even came with a roof rack and set of winter tires on steelies! I haven't done much since except swapping out the stock 17s for 16" Sparco Terras and swapping the OEM shocks with Koni Oranges. Those last two mods have made getting to trailheads on forest service roads much more tolerable, and I've even got a skid plate ready to go on this spring. We've gone through two sets of BFG Comp 2 A/S, and three sets of brake pads/rotors. I can't even be mad when consumables on this little car are so cheap!
And no intro post is complete without photos, so here are some highlights from the last year or so:
Sometimes she wears a backpack:
Other times it's bikes:
I lost one of the jack point covers a while back and I can't unsee the little hole on the sideskirt...
At home in the new garage!
Stablemates
I bought my 2014 Molten Orange FiST about three years ago with 30k miles on it and am now inching closer to the big six digit milestone every day. It's the best car I've ever owned and we plan to keep in the family as long as we can. It's been a great little adventure car, daily driver, mtb hauler, forest road cruiser, and learner car for our teenage daughter.
I got it from the previous owner with almost all the mods I would have done myself: RMM, throttle pedal spacer, Cobb shift knob, Accessport, mud flaps, and symposer delete. It even came with a roof rack and set of winter tires on steelies! I haven't done much since except swapping out the stock 17s for 16" Sparco Terras and swapping the OEM shocks with Koni Oranges. Those last two mods have made getting to trailheads on forest service roads much more tolerable, and I've even got a skid plate ready to go on this spring. We've gone through two sets of BFG Comp 2 A/S, and three sets of brake pads/rotors. I can't even be mad when consumables on this little car are so cheap!
And no intro post is complete without photos, so here are some highlights from the last year or so:
Sometimes she wears a backpack:
Other times it's bikes:
I lost one of the jack point covers a while back and I can't unsee the little hole on the sideskirt...
At home in the new garage!
Stablemates
), but even in that the roads were fantastic by the coast and on the way up to Cape Flattery. I have been planning a cross country trip in my ST for many years and Second Beach is a destination I will definitely go back to and I will bring a hammock.
