Anyone here living in the Philippines?

[P4rD0nM3]

Going to Manila, Philippines pretty soon. I was wondering if there are 240sx owners there. I want to :ughug: them.

[reefer1114]

i highly doubt youd find any there... i saw a kompressor with dubs though haha. theyre all about the civics. those are like luxury cars there...

[Akiros]

I have a friend that just left for there, but thats about as close as I can get..

[usdm180sx]

http://forums.freshalloy.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB27&Number=68030689&Forum=UBB27&Words=philippines&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=68027336&Search=true#Post68030689

[P4rD0nM3]

Oh my good lord. Thanks for the link. Civics huh? I can sense a lot of RWD hatred down there.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b27/Gangsta_S14/DSCF1599.jpg

Wtf!

[balmo]

its not that there is a rwd hatred goin on there. its just that there are fewer selections of car models there. i highly doubt youll find a 240 there casue it wasnt offered in the philippines. in any consolation, cefiro was offered there. lots of old skool rwd, lancer box type, l type, corolla mangos, te, celeste, etc.

[P4rD0nM3]

OH I see. Oh well. Who cares! I'm going because of the BEACH! WUHOO!

[ALTRNTV]

Have fun there. Everything there is CHEAP since we have the power of the US Dollar. =)

[HyperTek]

haha.. my dad just got back there and sent me some "nismo" shirts... he said they had "180sx" shirts but didnt know 180sx was equvilent to the 240sx.. lol

dam this pic makes me want to go down there... but I know if I where to go, I'd end up being forced to stay with relatives who prolly dont live anywhere near those nice areas.. =(

[sideview_180sx]

go to the mall where they have that TRD store get me some jackets!!!

[usdm180sx]

Go to Banaue. My friend got a tuned ecu for his ca18det motor. They have lots of grey market parts from Japan there.

[Dutchmalmiss]

i was just there this past summer and all i saw were civics (eg's). but yeah, banaue is what i also heard was a good place.

[ALTRNTV]

I was there this past August. All I saw were LanEvos.

[SochBAT]

Bring me back a Barrel Man, cuz Simoun didn't.

[ALTRNTV]

^

You want one Cheat? I got plenty, haha.

[s13silady]

they are also really big into Starlets and most of the oldschool Toyotas over there.

[ESone3]

i wonder how much Rota's would be to buy them there?

[C2AUTOSPL]

Go to Banaue. My friend got a tuned ecu for his ca18det motor. They have lots of grey market parts from Japan there.

ah, the good old days at banaue. We used to go there all the time to get parts for our old lancer gsr box type

[BOOSTLOVER]

:doh: double post...

[BOOSTLOVER]

I'll be in and around Cebu for a lil over a month this May. When are you going?

[xka24detx]

i wonder how much Rota's would be to buy them there?
yeah i wonder too... my friend was asking me to get him a set since i got family coming from PI sometime this year... :wavey:
i wonder if they can get a 5 foot balisong past security haha

[rainier]

I JUST GOT BACK FROM THE PHILIPPINES ON SATURDAY. everything is cheap. 15" and 16" rotas are cheap. you know those ones everyone has. but the rare ones are actually same price as here. go to the street in manila called banawi(spl). its filled with import and car stuff. theyll fix anything for you any time of day and anywhere in the area.

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/1120/dsc068852ej.jpg
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/9007/dsc069167us.jpg

[sushimonster]

damn i miss the pollution in manila and the jeepneys!

[P4rD0nM3]

Hey, wait. You guys that are saying that you've been to the Philippines and back..may I ask if you used to live in the Philippines? Or are Filipinos?

@BOOSTLOVER, I'm going to Manila. I've been to Cebu like only once when I was 8. My family took a vacation there. Are you gonna have a stop-over at Manila? I'm going at around May too if money and school permits me.

PS: Where is Banawi.

[rainier]

banawi is in manila. i dont live there. but my parents just moved back there 2 years ago so ive been going back and forth. if you don't know tagalog, take someone with you to banawi, so you can get a discount and they wont overcharge you too much.

[ALTRNTV]

The key to bargaining there is the ability to talk the language, or else they'll rape you with high prices (even though it's still really cheap to us) if they know you're not from around there.

[xka24detx]

im filippino.. went there when i was like 8 too haha.. never going back to the provinces... scared the shit out of me when i was little seeing so many lizards all over the wall and ceiling and a trantula (spl?) falling on the dinner table... so humid too take a shower and sweating before you can even get out of the shower haha

[P4rD0nM3]

The key to bargaining there is the ability to talk the language, or else they'll rape you with high prices (even though it's still really cheap to us) if they know you're not from around there.

When I saw this post I knew i'm done for. If you don't look like them then...god only knows what will happen. Lol.

Ok guys i'm going to jack my own thread...but look.

http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/568/tz2009131219358084oy.jpg

[ALTRNTV]

Who's that? :boink:

Back on-topic, if they can tell you're not from around there, they'll just jack up the price since you have no idea how much it's really worth. Just have someone there, either friends or family, bargain for you. For us with US dollars, it doesn't really matter much though. To think about it, when they raise their price a few hundred pesos, thats about a couple dollars to us, but to them, thats a lot more. For the price of a new car here ($15k range), you can buy a brand new 5-bedroom house there, complete with 4 maids and the works.

When I went back in August, the exhange rate was 56 pesos to our one dollar. It's great when we have to multiply our money to get pesos, instead of having to divide it, like in Europe, where everything costs an arm and a leg.

[P4rD0nM3]

Who's that? I dunno either, but she's from the Philippines. Hehe. Just saying that WOW, some filipino's are hot. Yeah they'll probably notice that you're not a local especially if you don't look like them. Most of the people that I've talked to said that the best time to go to the Philippines is during summer/spring and not winter.

So a $50 dollar meal here is around...2800 pesos. H*LY SH*T!

[ALTRNTV]

You can buy a meal there from McDonald's for roughly $2.15; you can watch a new release movie at a top of the class theater for about $1.50, complete with drink and popcorn; and you can buy this mini barrel of beer for about $5.

http://album2.snapandshare.com/5172/13230/240476.jpg

[P4rD0nM3]

I'm gettin' excited about this trip. Don't they have a war of some sort there? Or that's like a big fat lie?

[ALTRNTV]

A war? When I was there this last August, they were trying to overthrow the President. I don't know what's going on now.

[sushimonster]

the best thing in the philippines is you can drive as fast as you want! then if you get caught you can always bribe someone!!! weeeeeee

[SochBAT]

I would like to visit the phillipines once. I would probably get my money pulled, but oh well. It looks nice, and the chicks are hot.

[ALTRNTV]

and the chicks are hot.

+eleventy billion

:boink: :boink: :boink: :boink: :boink: :boink: :boink: :boink:

[rainier]

dude, seriously, go to the malls at hit up the TRIBAL clothing stores. once they saw my california id they were all over me. it was the greatest experience of my life. not really. but the girls are fcuking hot there

[TOMKAIRA93]

I'll be in and around Cebu for a lil over a month this May.

One of my troops is from Cebu, too. Right now I'm in Iraq, but as soon as I get back to Japan...I'm going to hit PI to check out the beach...not bitches!! I'm married, so I can't lurk around anymore. haha

[P4rD0nM3]

+INFINITY to Filipinas! Holy Shit! Shit...I might get tempted to cheat.

Wait..what she don't know...won't hurt! Joke.

[Helghast]

50 miles rule bro..

...and PI is beyond 50 miles

[ALTRNTV]

"I got hos, I got hos, in different area codes, area, area codes, hos!"

Haha, keep that in mind!

I'm also planning to go there, in July.

[jdm538]

i went to banawe 3 years ago we took a taxi cuz my uncle told me our car will get jacked. i found a bride bucket for $100 and 16" panasport (banana type) as they call it there, for $200. momo/nardi steerting wheels are $20. stuff there is very cheap and lined up all over the street. i bought 2 eg6 sir guage clusters for $30 each and sold them here for 100 each.

[BEISSEN]

yeah alot of the Girls there are hot,My wife is Filipina lol.She is from THe visayian area Du Magete SPL dont care really how to spell but I am going there to see my In Laws there.I am going to get into so much trouble there.I have 6-9 Achers of land there already as well and so I am going to build a house there and more then likely move there when I retire in about 20+ year hehehehe.

[ZK]

For Pinay girls I direct you here:

http://jayfaves.textamerica.com/?qs=xdefault&page=0

[sushimonster]

For Pinay girls I direct you here:

http://jayfaves.textamerica.com/?qs=xdefault&page=0

nice find ZK!!!! swweeet

[Helghast]

I'm planning on going there too..around May-June.

3 weeks..$3k pocket money.

I win.

[ALTRNTV]

You will live like the richest man in the world with that spending money.

[C2AUTOSPL]

yup, lived there for 20yrs...came here 7 yrs ago. I might go back there to spend Christmas and 07 new years... :D

[TurDz]

Damn ZK, those are some super cute Filipinas. I need to go back some time.

[fliprayzin240sx]

Dood im going back in August cuz of my grandparents 50th anniv. I was born n raised there till i was 11 *stale fob* But yah best part bout goin back right now is that....62 pesos per $1!!! Last time i was back there was bout 3 yrs ago. Yah theres the civic out the ass but theres a couple of tuning shops that i hit up. I remember this shop in Sta Mesa that tunes nothing but MK4 Supras and FDs *least thats all i saw in their garage*
Also when i came home, all my cousins turned atleast 18 so were hitting up the clubs and bars every night. Between like the 6 of us, i was spending $50 which doesnt sound alot in the states but this is for 6 of us, enough mini barrells of San Miguel beer than i can count, a bottle of vodka and tequila, some pulutan among other things. yah $50 was like 2500 pesos.

[P4rD0nM3]

Hey I was planning on spending 3 grand too. 2k for a round trip. I'm wetting my pants now. Joke.

[Helghast]

I'm going there for sake of vacationing and relaxing, no car related shit. Even thought I might be tempted to stop by some areas just to check it out.

I haven't been back since '96 so it's going to be good times, with a lot of bullshit relatives to deal with.

[fliprayzin240sx]

Dood i was home for 3 wks and all i spent was less than $1K

[ALTRNTV]

I spent $400 there when I went. I bought ALOT of stuff. I had $57 left over, lol.