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This was taken at the All-Mopar Nationals at Carlisle, PA last summer. The LH cars stretch all the way down the hill, to the big, pointy tent. The silver one that's closest is mine.
Evidently the Intrepid, Concorde, and 300M have a pretty loyal following. When you go to the GM Nationals or the Ford Nationals, you don't see huge turnouts of Impalas or Tauruses like that!!
I think they're fine in the snow, although I did have some friends warn me, that with a treadwear rating that high (turns out it's 620) that it's going to be a harder tire that might compromise some wet weather traction. I haven't had any problems though. While I've been happy with them, I'm sure there are better tires out there. I mainly wanted something that wouldn't wear out fast.
i think you are reading way too much into what the local dodge service guy said to you. the tech i know said with todays engine's super tight tolerances, he'd run nothing less than synthetic oil. am i supposed to take that as todays engines would die an early death on dino oil?? catch my drift? btw, i don't run synthetic in anything i drive...and never have.
Andre--making me wish I had driven the 90 minutes to Carlisle and taken in the show. Looked good..
Emale et. al... Looks like we're having some bad weather today--so I'll postpone the trip to Philly for tomorrow or Thursday. Best wishes to all...
There was black ice aplenty on the roads around here last nite, plenty of chances to play bumper cars! I slid around a little bit, but nothing too major. I guess it was a good test of my Yokohama tires!
not too much snow here in SD...but it has been colder than all get out! looking at flying to florida to catch some sun...
Dangit, and I wanted to be there to see it, too! I guess I could drive around a bunch to get it to 90K prematurely, but that would be a waste of gas...
I have used the HydroEdge tires and found them to be an excellent product. The LH30 is produced by the biggest tire manuf. in Japan so they must be doing something right.
My personal opinion NOTE -MY OPINION- Both the HydroEdge and the LH30 are a far superior product than the LH vehicles that you intend to use them on.
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Jason, how many miles did you get out of those Bendix pads? I have Bendix pads up front, that I put on around 69,000 miles, and when I rotated my tires about a month ago, they still had plenty of meat on them.
Oh yeah, my 'Trep hit 90,000 miles yesterday.
Of particular interest, Andre, was something the service manager said (incidentally this is NOT a Dodge dealership--but a retail "Pep Boys" style shop). He said that I should expect front brake pads to last no more than 20-25K--even the "premium quality" ones I had used. He said that as my car and the braking systems ages, I'll get less life out of the pads.
Come to think of it, my front pads lasted 39K miles, which I thought was really impressive because of all my stop-and-go pizza delivery driving I did back then. I put on some cheap-o Trak Auto pads that lasted me to about 69K miles, and now have the Bendix pads on. My rear pads lasted to about 51K, when I had my mechanic put on the cheap-o Trak Auto pads that I had bought the same time I had purchased the front ones. They still look fine though, even though they now have about 39K miles on them.
Looking back though, I would've gotten more life out of the OEM front pads, except that one of them was wearing unevenly. Somehow, it had worn to the point that it was just about to start scraping the rotor, but was uneven enough that the wear indicator wasn't rubbing yet!
I might go ahead and replace my front rotors the next time I do the front brakes, because they are a bit warped. If I even keep the car that long, that is. I'm not even putting 1000 miles a month on the car anymore, so I'm guessing (hoping, at least!) that it'll be a long time before I need to put new brakes on the car!
The most frustrating expenditure I made was to fix the fuel filler problem. There was a TSB for it--I felt it should have been a recall. Continued good luck with yours..
I have had some cars given to me by family members though that were bought new, which have gone many more miles than my Intrepid, but just not under my care.
Hope yours lasts and serves you well, too! Just nine more payments, and mine's all paid for!! Whoo-hoo!
Mike Do you hold the auto makers to the same standards as the tire companies, your opinion being that 2 or 3 recalls by Firestone over the last 30 years or so are too high, what is your opinion regarding the Chrysler group that has 22 product recalls for the model year 2004 alone? Would you buy a product from that company with that number of recalls within approx. the first six months of a product year?