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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6040 on: September 17, 2016, 10:18:31 pm »
I don't think I've heard of examples of other car companies doing that.

Toyota is the ONLY company that backs their products well beyond their "technical" obligations on a large scale. 

Toyota Enterprise Value:  286 Billions USD

GM Enterprise Value:  101 Billion USD

Who gives a :censor: about enterprise value.  All I am saying toyota isn't the only company to go repair/replace crappy engineered parts when out of warranty. 

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6041 on: September 18, 2016, 10:19:08 pm »
Just passed the 25K mark this weekend in the S2000.   

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6042 on: September 19, 2016, 01:21:04 am »
I don't think I've heard of examples of other car companies doing that.

Toyota is the ONLY company that backs their products well beyond their "technical" obligations on a large scale. 

Toyota Enterprise Value:  286 Billions USD

GM Enterprise Value:  101 Billion USD

Who gives a :censor: about enterprise value.  All I am saying toyota isn't the only company to go repair/replace crappy engineered parts when out of warranty.

Enterprise value illustrates the wealth of Toyota in relation to the others.  Hence their ability to pay out of warranty claims.  The competition simply doesn't do it.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6043 on: September 19, 2016, 06:53:41 am »
Just finished swapping out the Honda winter tires.   So much quicker with the new floor jack and impact wrench.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6044 on: September 20, 2016, 02:58:49 pm »
Change the brake light switch on the truck today, since I was have service traction control message , and also cruise stopped working
Read online it could be as simple as needing a new brake line switch
Switch was $26 from the dealer , it of got a couple dollars cheaper on line , but it would been a week in shipping .My cruise is working but service traction control is still
I guess I need to take it in , I do not have a code reader to keep checking on what the problem is  :-\

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6045 on: September 20, 2016, 03:26:35 pm »
Spent about an hour on track with the RX8 was awesome.  No issues.

:thumbup: In the morning?  I was there for the afternoon.  What a great day - the weather was perfect!

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6046 on: September 21, 2016, 08:31:12 pm »
Spent about an hour on track with the RX8 was awesome.  No issues.

:thumbup: In the morning?  I was there for the afternoon.  What a great day - the weather was perfect!

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6047 on: September 21, 2016, 08:44:20 pm »
My RX8

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6048 on: September 22, 2016, 08:58:07 pm »
Put a bunch of batteries on charge. Need to clean out the garage at my grandmother's place and move the cars around on Saturday; which means starting 5 old cars that haven't been touched in at least a year....My MGB & Camaro, plus some other stuff owned by my parents and brother. Usually the process goes smoothly, but all it takes is one pissed off car to ruin the day. It's also sort of a sad reminder that yet another year has past and I haven't done anything with those 2 cars :(

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6049 on: September 22, 2016, 10:09:01 pm »
Put a bunch of batteries on charge. Need to clean out the garage at my grandmother's place and move the cars around on Saturday; which means starting 5 old cars that haven't been touched in at least a year....My MGB & Camaro, plus some other stuff owned by my parents and brother. Usually the process goes smoothly, but all it takes is one pissed off car to ruin the day. It's also sort of a sad reminder that yet another year has past and I haven't done anything with those 2 cars :(

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6050 on: September 24, 2016, 06:20:31 pm »
Lotus wouldn't start for a "COOL RUNNINGS!?".......Jamaica ???  I tried.   but tha chicken she woz jerked
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6051 on: September 24, 2016, 08:37:39 pm »
Needed to get some lumber to repair my fackin poorly constructed shed today (not impressed by the workmanship, just doing a patch job to hold it for a couple yrs until I build a new one), so I decided to put on the roof racks I picked up about 4 weeks ago. My GC, came with the flush black rails & not the raised chrome ones. So after some research I found the Whispbar were the best fit. They were 25% off when I ordered them online because they were being discontinued. Took about 40mins to install them, but I like the fit & finish and them seem to hold well. Going to leave them on now until the spring, will be throwing the Thule box on in the next couple of months for ski season I figure, ha, ha, ha!

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6052 on: September 25, 2016, 11:11:55 pm »
Put a bunch of batteries on charge. Need to clean out the garage at my grandmother's place and move the cars around on Saturday; which means starting 5 old cars that haven't been touched in at least a year....My MGB & Camaro, plus some other stuff owned by my parents and brother. Usually the process goes smoothly, but all it takes is one pissed off car to ruin the day. It's also sort of a sad reminder that yet another year has past and I haven't done anything with those 2 cars :(

Got her done. With 3 of us hustling we got all the cars out, garage cleaned and everything re-parked for the winter in the one day. I even had time to take my MGB (the blue one) and the Camaro for a few good runs around the neighborhood. Wasn't without trouble though; 2 of the 3 MGB's (the white one - not pictured had been out all summer, so no issues) and the Camaro had stuck carburetor floats from sketchy gas. Little tapping on the bowls solved the issue; we've been religious with using stabilizer and switching out the gas, but clearly these 3 cars need to be drained and flushed next year  >:(

The other hiccup was the only side terminal battery we had turned out to have a broken terminal, so it wouldn't connect up in the Camaro. Found an old top post conversion kit lying around and was able to use that to jerry-rig it for the day.

New parking arrangement has the Camaro more accessible, so I am going to force myself to do something with it in the Spring...

Wish I took more pics, but it's tricky when you're trying to get stuff done.

The B getting some light:


B interior:


Brother's B and my Camaro being extracted:


I thought this was a cool shot, two "modern" MG's  and a project MGTD my dad's working on.


Crappy shot of the Camaro


And back behind the wheel of the Camaro after a year+

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6053 on: September 26, 2016, 10:51:33 am »
Is that a factory steering wheel in the Camaro? I don't recall seeing one like that before. Nice work on getting all the moved and sorted.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6054 on: September 26, 2016, 11:02:27 am »
I see the "B's" have invaded Firms yard...is it a sting operation...beautiful stuff...feed them pollen and they will wax poetic come Spring.... :bounce: :inlove: :thumbup: :banana:

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6055 on: September 26, 2016, 11:23:32 am »
Is that a factory steering wheel in the Camaro? I don't recall seeing one like that before. Nice work on getting all the moved and sorted.

You're right, it is an aftermarket wheel by a company called "personal". It was installed when the car was only a couple months old and has been on there since. It's a great wheel; nice tick leather rim, feels great and IMO it suits the interior very well. I do have the factory wheel; it's one of those ugly deals with the square in the centre.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6056 on: September 26, 2016, 11:28:08 am »
A steering wheel would be much more expensive and complicated to replace now...

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6057 on: September 26, 2016, 11:37:29 am »
That square wheel has to be one of the all time ugliest steering wheels. Not sure I could look at that all the time if I had a third generation Camaro. The one you have on there looks so much better.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6058 on: September 26, 2016, 02:41:02 pm »
Oil change in the sienna and Vw.  Now ready for winter!

That will last till spring?

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #6059 on: September 26, 2016, 03:37:54 pm »
That square wheel has to be one of the all time ugliest steering wheels. Not sure I could look at that all the time if I had a third generation Camaro. The one you have on there looks so much better.

Agreed. I had an 82 Berlinetta with that wheel, hated it. To be fair though, Z28's and Iroc's got a slightly better stock wheel:

Note the car pictured also has optional "gauge package" with oil pressure, temp and voltage gauges instead of the idiot lights in my car. It's annoying not have a proper temp gauge, but I do sorta dig the bright red idiots lights that come on with the ignition at startup....cool in a  fighter jet sorta way.