Mid-Atlantic Chat Thread - Page 264 - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

OrbitalEllipses · 11-25-2013, 10:56 PM

BBK is so much more trouble than it's worth. Of course wheel weights on stock wheels dont clear...

TheRoadRunner · 11-25-2013, 10:59 PM

just wanted to say safe travels to everyone who's got to drive tomm in this "winter storm"..my winter tires don't come in till wed so i might have to risk it with the stock oem summer tires till then bleh

hopefully it doesn't get too icy

kanundrum · 11-25-2013, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by OrbitalEllipses

BBK is so much more trouble than it's worth. Of course wheel weights on stock wheels dont clear...

dam lol

I want a winter setup still undecided

kanundrum · 11-25-2013, 11:24 PM

Funniest thing I have seen in a while, watch it all hilarious.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrrwDHZUK6I"]Speed, The Desert, and Crushed Dreams -- /TUNED - YouTube[/ame]

OrbitalEllipses · 11-25-2013, 11:59 PM

Directional snow tires, really?!! Rusty fucking hubs?!!

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Originally Posted by kanundrum

dam lol

I want a winter setup still undecided

Scratched the brakes with the wheel barrels themselves when mounting. Oops. Vanity costs you...

camelflage · 11-26-2013, 12:00 AM

should have ordered winter tires already... dumb..

OrbitalEllipses · 11-26-2013, 12:31 AM

Took summers off and filled them with air and mounted summers but tpms light is still going off. Was hoping filled summers 6 feet away would work but looks like a sensor could be dead. We'll find out in March.

Grishbok · 11-26-2013, 02:54 AM

cold roads, cold tires, low tread, its like driving on a slip n' slide! Im going to hold off on on the winter tires for awhile longer, this is too much fun! I went through the ez-pass toll booth angled and got some construction guys in a truck to laugh and drop some thumbs up.

BoostinIX · 11-26-2013, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by OrbitalEllipses

I got -80 days.

I had parts for the BRZ before it even arrived stateside :P 240 is always getting stuff ordered, that's a revolving door lol.

And idk why there's slip and slide beyond your right foot....not a bit of it last night/this morning. Normal commute so far. TPMS light even stayed off, musta been a fluke.

Tonight may be a different story lol

Grimlock · 11-26-2013, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by OrbitalEllipses

People who can spot minute model year differences like that...are...well, you know.

The Montego Blue paint, red Miata badge on the back, passenger air bag, and style of the cloth seats all scream that it's a '94-'97 1.8L car. But the only '94 car to come in Montego blue was the M Edition, which this is clearly not.

The big clincher for the '97 model year is the radio surround. In every previous Miata (and in '97 models with the factory CD player) the radio open was not DIN or double DIN sized. It was an odd ball size to deter thieves from stealing the radio. In '97 Mazda swapped it a Double DIN size. That way when you install an aftermarket CD player the radio and the bezel actually fit in the opening properly, which doesn't happen on the earlier cars.

So owners of the 1.8L cars can just order the radio surround from a '97 Miata with no CD player to get a proper fit. Those of us with 1.6L cars have to order a radio surround from Japan (they didn't get passenger airbags until the NB, so that radio surround is the only one that will work for us).

Miata lesson complete.

infinite012 · 11-26-2013, 10:14 AM

All this Miata talk is making me miss my '92 B-package.

Note to self: do not pack Kindle Fire into lunch box that contains soup in "sealed" container. Container will unseal itself and turn Kindle Fire into Kindle Soup.

D4S · 11-26-2013, 11:12 AM

I wish I had some winters lined up, but I'm stuck with the stock
for the season. Learning car control is good, but insanely scary at
the same time.

BoostinIX · 11-26-2013, 11:18 AM

Nannies do a pretty good job. Light foot + nannies keeps you out of most trouble.

Grimlock · 11-26-2013, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by D4S

I wish I had some winters lined up, but I'm stuck with the stock
for the season. Learning car control is good, but insanely scary at
the same time.

Hopefully is a mild Winter! Do you have the Primacies or the Bridgestones as stock?

11-25-2013, 11:24 PM	#3686
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11-26-2013, 02:54 AM	#3690
Grishbok Volunteer Fire and Rescue Join Date: Jul 2012 Drives: Ambulance... sideways. Location: No. VA Posts: 546 Thanks: 97 Thanked 350 Times in 166 Posts Mentioned: 2 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	cold roads, cold tires, low tread, its like driving on a slip n' slide! Im going to hold off on on the winter tires for awhile longer, this is too much fun! I went through the ez-pass toll booth angled and got some construction guys in a truck to laugh and drop some thumbs up. __________________ It's more fun to drive a slow car fast, than a fast car slow.

11-26-2013, 11:12 AM	#3694
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11-25-2013, 10:56 PM	#3683
OrbitalEllipses Banned Join Date: Jan 2012 Drives: Attitude Location: MD Posts: 10,046 Thanks: 884 Thanked 4,890 Times in 2,903 Posts Mentioned: 123 Post(s) Tagged: 4 Thread(s)	BBK is so much more trouble than it's worth. Of course wheel weights on stock wheels dont clear...

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camelflage Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Drives: pinto power Location: Sterling, VA Posts: 709 Thanks: 76 Thanked 192 Times in 136 Posts Mentioned: 8 Post(s) Tagged: 1 Thread(s)	should have ordered winter tires already... dumb..

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OrbitalEllipses Banned Join Date: Jan 2012 Drives: Attitude Location: MD Posts: 10,046 Thanks: 884 Thanked 4,890 Times in 2,903 Posts Mentioned: 123 Post(s) Tagged: 4 Thread(s)	Took summers off and filled them with air and mounted summers but tpms light is still going off. Was hoping filled summers 6 feet away would work but looks like a sensor could be dead. We'll find out in March.

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