01-24-2023, 02:52 PM | #19727 | |
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Need to update your stereotypes there, heh?
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01-24-2023, 03:12 PM | #19728 |
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I'm thinking something more like a Crosstrek. I'm not going to play the dealership inflation games anymore and low production-high cost nonsense. It's not worth it.
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01-24-2023, 03:15 PM | #19729 |
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Yesterday, I replaced the Pilot Sport 4 tires with Pilot Sport All Season 4 tires. I got tired of taking off and the rear end not getting with the program. This morning it was 32 deg.F out and the ass-end was glued to the ground. The summer tires were pretty good, but it is cold and wet a lot around here. I did the same thing with my 2017 BRZ, but much sooner. I thought that I could live with these summer tires until they wore out, but four cars in the ditch down the road from me last Sunday sealed the deal for me. My favorite stretch of road for spirited driving generates a lot of income for the tow truck companies. From what I have seen from the last few years is what is left gets taken directly to the junk yard for recycling.
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01-25-2023, 01:29 PM | #19730 |
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01-25-2023, 01:31 PM | #19731 |
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Haha don’t throw that karma at me!
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01-25-2023, 03:21 PM | #19732 |
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If I bought something else right now it would be an EV or an Outback Wilderness.
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01-25-2023, 04:08 PM | #19733 |
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01-25-2023, 04:39 PM | #19734 |
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My son has one in silver. He recently drove it home to Seattle from Brownsville, TX through the Great Basin snow event a couple of weeks ago. Didn’t miss a beat unless you count him high centering it in a snow bank. Even with that, with a little manual snow rearrangement and X-Mode deep snow and mud, it drove itself out.
I love the thing. If I lived where he does I’d own one.
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01-26-2023, 07:32 AM | #19735 | |
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I was going to say I want something more mundane so I don't get shit in traffic, but... that still happens
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01-26-2023, 08:26 AM | #19736 |
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Good luck.
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01-27-2023, 05:12 PM | #19737 | |
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-6-speed manual - and a really really good one, at that! -handles phenomenally. Shockingly light for its size, very competent vehicle dynamics, limited-slip diff, etc. -liftback with folding rear seats, so can hold a ton of things -so far about 32 MPG combined, and 42 MPG personal best (150-mile freeway-only drive) -very comfortable seats -understated but very eye-catching in person -bought at MSRP The Civic SI/Integra and the Mazda3 Hatch were the only internal-combustion cars we were considering for this role (the do-everything daily), since they were they only new five-seat cars that came in manual and could average over 30 MPG combined. Everything else we were looking at was electric - and if we lived in a house with solar instead of an apartment without, we almost certainly would have gone EV (2-3x horsepower/torque gain, eliminated fuel costs, reduced maintenance/complexity, AWD without the high drivetrain losses, etc). |
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02-11-2023, 04:43 AM | #19738 |
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Discovered my rear radiator, and the diff cooler were both completely clogged with bull dust after a recent rally day (and I mean solid).
No way to clean them in situ... so had to drop them both. Not fun...but very satisfying hitting them with the preasure washer and seeing a sea of filthy dark bown water slowly turn clear. Last edited by grumpysnapper; 02-11-2023 at 07:03 AM. |
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02-14-2023, 03:13 PM | #19739 |
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Well while it is clean and stored for now. Touched up most of the rock dings in the front. Sanded down and correction polished the front. The rest of the car got a general light polish. Now to Ceramic then wax. Thinking it may be time to upgrade the polisher to an orbital? That one is over 30 years old.
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02-14-2023, 09:19 PM | #19740 | |
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