QotW: What’s your automotive resolution for 2025?

A new year is almost upon us, which means new opportunities, new perspectives, and new resolve. We don’t know what the year will bring, but let’s head into it with the bright-eyed optimism and energetic enthusiasm of Japan in the 1960s. There’s nothing you can’t do if you put your mind to it. So get out there and ganbatte!

What’s your automotive resolution for 2025?

The most entertaining comment by next week will receive a prize. Scroll down to see the winner of last week’s QotW, “What are you asking JNC Santa Claus for this year?“.

We hope you had a great holiday season and that all your wishes came true. Especially those of you who needed some parts to finish a car project or two. May MR2 brake parts be granted to Datsun1979 and three tires for a Nissan S-Cargo be bestowed on Fred Langille. Bryan Kitsune gets on the “nice” list for not only wishing for Celica GT-Four parts, but for sharing the wealth by asking JNC Santa to add them to the GR Heritage Parts program. Jonathan P. had a laundry list of bits for a Scion xB, as well as a miracle request for a time reversal to avoid a Z31 accident.

Jim Daniels almost won the week with his tale of Ferrari track time. But in the end the gift, newfound appreciation for his Datsun 240Z, was far more rewarding. Sometimes JNC Santa works in mysterious ways. Meanwhile, エーイダン simply wished for a stop to diecast car temptations.

Perhaps not all of them did, though, because some of you asked JNC Santa for a whole ass car. TheJWT requested a C210 Skyline or Z10 Soarer, Taylor C. sought a Japanese wagon, BlitzPig fancied an NA Miata 1.8, streetspirit hoped for a D21 Hardbody, and Franxou aimed for a Honda S600/800.

The winner this week was Troy B, who must have been extra good because he actually got his dream car:

I already got my JNC Christmas present! 2 weeks ago I picked up my dream car of over 10 years, a 1996 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IV in Palma Red, which I bought back in August and had just finally arrived from Japan. I made a pretty big leap of faith buying it, just going off of photos and a VIN check, but it was well worth it. The car is in amazing condition cosmetically and it drives just as well as it looks. Unfortunately due to living in the north east, the amount of time I could drive was limited due to snow, but it gives me a good chance to do all the prevantative maintenance and really prepare it for spring. I can’t wait to finally enjoy something that I’ve dreamt of for so long!

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14 Responses to QotW: What’s your automotive resolution for 2025?

  1. Negishi no Keibajo says:

    Into retirement, everyone faces a new chapter in life: coming to terms & finding peace in finding a new, if not better home for my JNC( & other) adventures. I’ve always sent things on their way for a better home as opposed to make a buck. I’ve found satisfaction in leaving things just a little better than how I found it. This will be a year for not good byes but passing the torch.

  2. StreetSpirit says:

    FINISH MY PROJECTS.
    Now it might not have been inspired by JNC-Santa handing me a lump of binchotan or the lump of rust i had on my wishlist but i learnt a lesson here.

    In between moving shops, moving houses and having 3 project cars awaiting completion i came to a realisation, life would be much much easier if i tackled all these things one after another.

    so my JNC new years resolution is to stop swiping marketplace like i’m looking for a new love and finish my projects BEFORE i buy something new.

    Will I be getting my hands on something with a 6×139.7 bolt pattern for my deliciously dated three spokes? defineatly, just after i finished what i started.

  3. David Guest says:

    At the end of 2023 I started putting a 20 year old (rebuilt) Jackson Racing Supercharger on my Prelude. The instructions were vague, the unit was modified, and I got nothing but crickets when asking if any shops wanted to install it, hell, even just tune it due to the age of the car. I ended up getting it running with the old timing retard system I got off another seller, but the thing just won’t accelerate 🙁

    My resolution is to get this thing going, and enjoy the hell out of it until the wheels fall off where I can put them back on again and enjoy it some more!

    • Stefan S says:

      This build started with a Jackson Racing Supercharger. Dude went seriously down the rabbit hole.

      https://www.preludeonline.com/threads/second-best-prelude-in-the-world.330073/

      • David says:

        Thanks for this, of all the years of research on and off I have done for Preludes, I have somehow never come across this build!

        A really frustrating thing with this unit is that it turns out (and can be seen in this thread) that if you bought the JRSC new you got a fuel pump, that is not mentioned in the instructions or many build threads as it’s not a very “sexy” part. I had no idea I needed one, especially since it’s supposed to run on the stock injectors. SO hopefully with a bigger fuel pump I have cracked it! I have also done a little build, but I used instagram since my countrie’s Prelude forum has gone under. https://www.instagram.com/vtec2157/?hl=en

        This guy has the same exhaust and almost same colour Prelude as mine, I bought it because it was the best example I could find, but Nordic Mist Metallic has actually grown on me 🙂

  4. Bryan Kitsune says:

    Prioritize better.

    When it comes to the JNCs this means spending money on the things that *need* attention before spending on aesthetics/accessories, unlike how I bought a set of OZ rally wheels for the st165 when what it really needs is a suspension refresh.

    But it also means prioritizing upkeep on my wife’s 260k Honda Pilot daily driver. It’s spoiled me by being nice & reliable for the 90k we’ve owned it, but its at the point where it needs some love. So I should probably throw it a bone or two, rather than only focusing my attention on the two JNCs that probably won’t see more than 4-5k miles between the two of them. To some extent the same goes for my Scion xA daily, but I’ll feel worse if it’s my wife’s daily that suffers due to my neglect.

    To some extent, I think time management also falls under priorities. Good priorities makes for better use of time, and making better use of my time will go a long ways toward helping both the dailies & the JNCs.

  5. Lee L says:

    I went back and looked at these posts from previous years. It looks like the post in 2022 I said I wanted to get my garage clean in 2023 so I could pull my Z31 out of the barn and move it into the garage to start working.

    Well…I did get my garage pretty clean in 2023 but it’s a mess again due to other projects and my car is still in the barn. So….for 2025 I want to get my garage clean enough to bring my car in and start working on it.

    I have way more tools now and more storage where I can move all the junk currently in the garage so it should be doable!

  6. Fred Langille says:

    Transfer my JNC Santa list for 3 Kumho tires for the S-Cargo to a wisdh for the New Year …PPPPPLLLLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEE!!!!

  7. Azfer says:

    Keep myself from spending more on it in a year than it’s worth because my wife is starting to catch on. I LOVE LOVE LOVE my 2012 R51 Pathfinder with 147k on the clock and being a Nissan truck, it’s really not worth all that much (in $$$ terms but in terms of pleasure per mile, it’s unbeatable). I got a suspension lift kit and new tires last year, in addition to other things and it was quite a bit! This year, I’m hoping it’s just oil changes/tire rotations and a few other items like a new battery because I need my wife to like my R51 as well, even if it’s just a quarter as much as I love it.

  8. steve says:

    My present to myself would be to clear out my garage and stuff in my life to move forward with a clean slate. I will get the GTX out of storage this spring and immediately get to work on a few things to make it darn near perfect so that I can sell it to a good home. I have one without rust at all, and does me no good taking up space in my garage or in my mind, so it has to go. Maybe the Miata goes too (NOOOOOOOOO!!!!) but we will see what happens. On the larger scale I have another car that may have to go as well, and if so, this opens up the door for guess what…..another nice fun driver car that may double as a daily, and even gets garage space and not have to sit outside!

  9. Lee says:

    I’m in the process of buying a friend’s parents’ 1993 Toyota MR2 Turbo and rebuilding the engine back to factory specs. It was a daily driver for his mom and dad for about 20 years before it became a weekend only car for them, so it definitely needs some TLC in the interior and fresh coat a paint. My goal is to have it presentable enough to drive it to JCCS in 2025 (I know I’ll need at least another year before I’d be comfortable trying to get it into the show). If anyone knows a great place in SoCal or online to find a set of Tom’s C7Rs or Advan Ver.2s, please let me know!

  10. TheJWT says:

    Once my new Junction Produce coilovers get here and I install them, I want to enjoy my Crown more next year. Not just stand around it in a parking lot, but actually enjoying it as a car, driving cool places and making new memories in it.

    As for bikes, I hope to get my ’96 GSX-R 750 back on the road, but I don’t want to overpromise…

  11. Roy James says:

    I’ve had my Nissan 1994 for almost 30 years had to replace a few parts but I refuse to let it go my seats are worn and most of the plastic in the interior has cracked but still use it daily not bad for a 73 year old withe a thirty year old truck it was built to last

  12. Taylor C. says:

    If and when my wife / kids learn and drive manual transmission, I resolve to learn to be more patient in the process of teaching them. My wife has told me that she’s partly not interested in learning manual because I give her too much pressure and have high expectations. She’s made it clear that she’s not a car enthusiast (although she does continue to remain adamant with keeping the Nissan cube because of its character), and does not see any enjoyment with rowing gears. I don’t know what it’ll be like to teach manual transmission to today’s generation of kids, but whatever the case, it’ll only work if I’m patient and standing in their shoes.

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