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Also, does anyone else have the optional compass/temp rear view mirror? I have one and it seems to get real innacurate when the a/c is running.
Dinu
Mirror: The temp is going to be inaccurate when the AC is running, because the AC is going to cool the area around the sensor.
Sititng in traffic used to make the temp gauge in the rental Sebring conv. I had (in CA back in 99) go up to 115 degrees!
I cleaned my player because a few cd's were skipping. Do you think that cleaning it could damage the player?
The Protege is highly recommended by Consumer Reports for its reliability, all the way back to the early '90s.
You know where to look.
fowler3
fowler3
-larry
I really am impressed with the ride quality vs the RE-92's. I've been running 35psi front and back, though I intend to play around with pressure when I have some time to test.
When the tires were installed, they were pumped up to 50psi. Even so, comfort was not bad. Handling was, though, a bit dicey on broken surfaces. I lost the rear end on a bumpy ramp. Thanks to the great response, I was able to toss the pro back onto line. Things are much more predictable at proper inflation.
Had mine rotated for the second time last week and now they're even quieter! I got stuck in a pack of speeders on the commute to work this morning ("stuck" -- yeah right, just seized an opportunity!!!) and got to experience life at 80 mph for a few miles. It's so very nice that my car is so quiet and smooth with these tires -- and after 14,000 miles, not a hint of shimmy from the steering wheel at speed.
Meade
P.S. A few side notes: I was just kidding with the hunting and fishing comments -- it seemed you guys were getting a little too romantic about it and I decided to insert a little prosaic "second opinion." I own three fishing rods and while I've never hunted, I owned three handguns before I was married and used to target shoot quite a bit. Hope all of my American friends out there had a good Thanksgiving. Time to hit the diet again! And look out my fellow mid-Atlanticers -- looks like Wednesday and Thursday are gonna be a wintry MESS!!!
;-)
Meade
I think when the white stuff starts falling, it'll be time to take the rx-7 out onto an empty parking lot and do some doughnuts :-D
but boy does the Pro love fresh Mobil 1 10w-30 :-)
I hope it doesn't snow. I still be staying home if it does though. I work ~35 miles from home, not even going to try to make it. I did one year, and it toom me 3 HOURS to get to work. I will work from home, thanks.
(I don't know how well Jettas do in the snow, Paul ... since they're from Germany, you'd think they'd do admirably -- as long as the vibrations from the snowy road don't drop all four windows into your doors, the coils don't burn out and the rubber treatment doesn't leak!)
Meade
The Tiptronic is really cool in the snow, gives you very good control over the engine's speed. I have also crossed a sheet of ice in the car at 5mph or so. There was a water main break in the local grocery store's parking lot. Instead of trying to walk across the ice and risk killing myself, I drove across with my ASR on. Car didn't spin one time. I was really shocked.
Businesses and schools are very quick to close in Baltimore as well. Well, the county schools are quick to close. They do because of the risk of having kids on school buses on the snow covered roads, and lawsuit risks.
I wouldn't use snow chains on your car, Meade. I am pretty sure the owner's manual recommends against them. They might damage the alloy wheels. Traction control would help alot on snowy roads, if the Protege offered it...
The PRO handles ok in snow, but it does have a little too much torque for slippery starts You gotta take it very easy on the gas, and then it goes.
DInu
Meade
I went in to get my estimate on Saturday. In case anyone is wondering, a hood and a new grill will set you back $950 with a 2001 ES. I have rental coverage with my insurance and I am wondering what car I should try out when I bring my car in. Enterprise is my only choice. I'm thinking about holding off on the repair until winter is over. What would you guys do?
;-)
Meade
But just make sure you've got a brand-new, huge subwoofer in the trunk and the latest sound system and lots of rap music -- and loosen your rear license plate enough to it vibrates when you've got the tunes on. The whole point is to make people think you've completely lost it.
Meade
Meade
dinu: North Carolina is like Virginia, everything shuts down when a little snow comes. People here panic, rush to supermarkets and buy everything. No bread left! No easy to prepare food left. Usually it melts the next day. Ice storms are worse than snow, can last a week.
When I moved here in 1997, locals told me to buy a fondu pot, bunsen burners to heat food during ice storms. I bought a whole bunch of survival stuff including a battery operated TV, portable radio -- we haven't had an ice storm since January 1998.
fowler3
Ice storms are so frequent here that Virginia Power has a multi-million dollar project they conduct every three years where they go out and prune all the trees in their right-of-ways in an effort to keep them from falling on the lines. But in many cases they just don't have the right-of-way width to take care of the whole tree and just have to resort to pruning limbs. Fortunately the lines in my neighborhood are underground -- you should see the job these power company guys do at topping a tree. If they ever lose their power company jobs, they definitely will never make it in the tree-pruning business.
You guys up north who get nothing but the nice, white, fluffy stuff don't know how good you've got it. When we do get snow, it's heavy and wet and compacts to an inch-thick layer of ice at the road surface.
Then watch out! Here comes Mr. Yankee barreling down I-95 in his SUV at the legal limit, blowing past all of us who know better. Gee maw, lookit all those big Excursions and Suburbans (not to mention a whole motherlode of various Jeep iterations) sittin' belly-up in the ditches, headlights pointin' at the sky! Hmmm, why do they all have Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts license plates?
Meade
P.S. Just wondering -- How come the power goes out during wind storms, thunderstorms, ice storms, etc. -- but the telephone lines never go out? Maybe the power companies should take some classes from the phone companies ... ;-)
Ice storms: Montreal had a BIG one a few yrs ago. The city was paralized for a few days: no heat, no electricity, power lines lining the streets. And it lasted a few days to a week.
Now I understand that b.c of the warmer climate the VA-NC area gets more ice storms and for that I have nothing to say except "be preapred". It looks like you guys are.
But when you have traffic chaos and shut down the city b/c of anything less than 12" of snow, that's funny.
Now, I'll go laugh while I think about the air pressure I have to add to day to the PRO's tires. The front is pretty low - you ca see it and feel it.
Dinu
I just love taking advantage of typos.
;-)
Dinu
Meade
on another note, I thought you aren't suppose to use this board as a classified ad?
On another note, does anyone want to talk about a Protege that he or she is *not* selling?
and when you push the right pedal, it moves!
Meade
I much prefer Legend Lager -- locally brewed. If I have to pick a mass-produced one I'll go with Killians or Sam Adams.
Now back to the discussion at hand ... and it's nice to be 18000.
Meade
meade?? Maltb??