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Albany, NY = 92F (feels like 97). They have forecasted that we'll break our high temp record today.
I can't wait to get in my air conditioned car to get to my air conditioned house to go swim in my 86 degree pool (at least that's what is was yesterday). Hope everyone else is beating the heat too.
Thanks for that info on the TSB's. Scrolling down that list I noticed TSB #00-01-38-003A
'Heating/AC - Popping noise from Dash Area'
I am going to research the TSB further, but I wish I would have known about that when I took the car in last week. I think garypen and other commented on the popping.
RR
Sorry.
That makes it a real pain to change batteries, though, doesn't it? Stupid design.
90F
Feels like 99F
Humidity 61%
Source: The Weather Channel.
Unfortunately, my LS takes about 15 minutes to cool down to a comfortable level, whenever the mercury approaches 90. Just in time to pull into the driveway.
As for the temp here in southeastern Oh. I am sick of the heat. right now it is 90 degrees and humidity is 57%(pretty sticky) feels like 99 degrees according to the heat index.
Cobra
Oh yea---46 yrs old last June(same as my wife)
:-)
I used to work up on the 107th floor, Windows on the World. I traded that bumper to bumper traffic of NYC for the bumper to bumper traffic of San Jose.
Is she a Taxi Cab driver?
Just kidding
22,000 Miles in 6 months on an Impala LS....can you beat it?
Now heat, usually we here in the desert southwest can beat you all in heat, including the humidity (or heat index) I've never understood how a heat index of 108 is worse than when we have 116, 116 still beats 108, at least when you sweat it helps you cool off, just get a breeze across your skin and you're golden, here it just evaporates and your skin just burns... however while the rest of the country is sweltering, we are relatively cool, my thermometer outside says,100 I'm guessing that the humidity is about 53%, the normal high for this time of year is 106 and the humidity is usually around 50%, anyone who ever believes that there is no humidity here and that it's a dry heat, needs to be here July thru early September...
Tuesday and today were golf days, hot! mid-90s; but lots of water down the hatch and no crowding on the course makes for some fun..
Didn't have time to stop and chat with the dealer prior to golf because I was late..
Looks like everybody is happy with their Impala; good show..made a 20K offer on a 99 Concurs w/11k miles tonight, final pricing is based on drive impression..The copper/bronze color is not a winner; but 11k miles is the interesting factor..Dealer bought the car at a GM auction, and in service date was 3/29/99, so we have lots of warranty left; 39k miles or 18 months..
FYI::::The insurance companies rate all Northstar Cadillacs as performance cars..At least my insurance company which only insures AARPers is charging $564/yr and the Intrigue with full business coverage is a whopping $692/yr.. No tickets on record--last stop was for 80 in a 55 area, since no tickets I was asked to slow down..Pays to be nice; remember !!!
Temp on the DIC (Johnstown, PA) at 5pm was 96 downtown and 91 in the hills. Actual was probably 2-3 less. A/C cooled the car completely in 2 minutes.
Adding to the list from those mentioned by others would be
- visor pockets
- better built-in sunvisor shield extensions(current ones have to have the visor adjusted too far away from the side door to block out the sun)
- better cupholders in the rear centre armrest that will actually hold a cup
- a way to lock out the trunk from the dash-mounted switch as well as the pulldown seats (ie. when valeting the car)
Garypen - thanks for your instructions on rear speaker replacement
-in-dash cd changer
-an actual "premium" sound system
-8 way power seat w/memory
-xenon headlamps
-higher quality leather and interior trim materials
One thing that surprised me though was seeing right hand drive Cavaliers with Toyota nameplates in Japan. Nobody I spoke to there had any idea they were really Chevys!
While on our way to Myrtle Beach last month in the Impala, my husband was stopped on I-95 in Virginia. He has never had a ticket before and was honest with the trooper when asked if he knew why he was stopped (said he pulled out into the fast lane to pass a truck and got up to about 80). Well, the trooper said he clocked us at 82 and came back with a ticket for reckless driving by way of speeding, which is a misdemeanor charge and appearance ticket - you cannot just mail in a fine. Apparently anything over 80 carries this charge. So, now our vacation just cost us an extra $500 - since we opted to get a lawyer in Virginia instead of driving the 9 hours to get there to go to court.
Lessons learned: Impala has power and is a great traveling car - and beware of Virginia
Where is it?
Thanks
Garypen: Yep, Toyota exported for a while right hand drive Chevy Cavaliers to Japan and they were sold as the Toyota Cavalier. The cars routed for export were hand picked by Toyota representatives to ensure the maximum standard in build quality and fit and finish. Needless to say that these J-Body relics flunked in the Japanese market big time as the Japanese buyers immediately noted how poorly built were these Cavaliers against their own domestic produced breathen Toyota models.
Toyota quickly pulled the plug on the Cavalier exports and these were discontinued from the Japanese market.
NUMMI has been around for a very long time (Since 1984) and it has been a very big lesson in quality and manufacturing techniques for GM. The Toyota Manufacturing System is considered to be the hallmark of the auto industry.
Usually they will spot you 9-10 mph over.
I have gone by many a Virginia trooper at 79 mph and never gotten pulled.
In SC 25 mph over is considered reckless driving.
This leads me to believe that Garypen has a problem in his A/C system.
And my dang "air bag" light is on and hasn't gone off. Anyone else have this? My only worry at this point it the thing will just explode out of there for no reason. My thought is it's just a loose sensor.
Also, the DIC is cutting out now and again. Funny part is when I called the shop and told them the list of stuff I wanted looked at I mentioned the airbag light then said "And the DIC keep cutting out" and the guys says "The what??" ..."I mean Driver's information Center"... "What's that?" he answers... "Sigh.. you know, the computer that give the gas mileage, temp, fuel used?"... "Oh.... that" says the guy.
Don't know what could be wrong with the DIC . And I have the feeling I'll get the "Can't duplicate the problem" answer when I go in.... dang.
Sorry for the lousy trip thru Virginia...
Here in Wyoming anything over 85 gives you the chance of being the taxpayers guest. The Highway patrol has White top, Black body Impalas. Their markings are smaller than the older Crown Vics and Camaros. Cheyenne is still putting more Imapals out there. White with Blue markings, the "stealth" ones are plain white.
Toyota: Unfortunately, there really is a gap in US branded cars and Japanese ones, regardless of the actual country of manufacture. It's something about the corporate culture. They desire to make lots of money, just as much as GM. They just feel the way to do it is by providing high quality and value, not cutting costs and corners.
Toyota, not Honda, is also considered the highest quality auto brand by the Japanese. They have no problem shelling out big bucks for luxury cars with the Toyota nameplate. They don't need the Lexus pseudonym to justiify it.
It's odd that US car buyers have generally considered Honda to be the best of the Japanese automakers. Most Japanese think of them as 3rd, behind Toyota and Nissan. If Toyota and Honda keep making their cars uglier (especially Toyota..phew), and Nissan keeps improving their cars' appearance, as they're starting to in '02, we just might see that perception change.
In a lease I am sure by the time you return the car, the bank would have to reimburse you for very low mileage
We have had both extremes...
The person that drives 3666 miles per month and the one that drives only 341 miles a month.
There is a guy in the Y2K Yahoo Impala clubs and his 2000 LS already has 71K miles...
What a bummer - way to ruin a day!
Ken
When I got stopped for 80 in a 55, I told the officer I certainly wasn't going 55; but really didn't think 80 was possible..I ask him if I could see the radar readout so I went to his car and there it was in flashing lights.
Okay I am dead meat now--didn't say anything--the officer ask how many points I had??? I replied "none".. He checked and came back to car; "hold it down and use cruise"..
I had a client in the car with me and we were on a tight schedule on plant visitations..
About a year earlier I got nailed in Canada for about 70 kilometers over the posted and no problem since all they want is money for it's another form of Canadian taxation..Pay by credit card over the phone through electronic setup..Makes it painless and they want you back for some more dough..Since I spend some fast moments through Canada one becomes acquainted with their games..
On about 20 RT from Detroit to Delray Beach, Fl I was close many times--a little bit of luck and it's really a game. If you drive fast, then you better keep your eyes open wide for you have only yourself to blame..
I find the gray/white hair really helps to fend off problems..Old folks aren't reckless!!!
Closing on Tiger?
No golf today, was bored all day and will take the wife to dinner right now..
Golf tomorrow and Sunday; another 142 miles of grinding the Intrigue.. Freedom isn't cheap.
It was explained to me that a family member of the Governor at that time was either killed by or convicted of DWI, I can't remember which. And, this was his way of making up for it.
Their State Troopers, or Highway Patrol or whatever they're called, used Mustangs and Rivieras, which were among the fastest US production cars at the time. (Corvettes would have been impractical I suppose.)
Have a great dinner but don't eat too much red meat!
I asked him, and he wouldn't answer on the record, then I asked him off the record and he told me they'd hired two more police patrol men (up from the two they normally had) and did nothing more than assign them to the 5 miles of Interstate freeway in their jurisdiction and have them trap speeders. The revenue alone from speeding tickets paid for the two extra officers and helped put the town in the black.
I tell you what, when I drive through that area I remember that guy (I'm sure he's gone by now) and I slow to 65.
It was a miracle i didn't get pulled over.
They got the cars in front of me and the ones beside me.
I would come over a hill and there would be 3-4 cop cars pulled over one behind the other waiting to catch you.
I would come over the next hill and there would be people lined up on the side of the road with cop cars behind them.
Incredible. It was enough to make me not want to go back.
it is a police state as far as i am concerned.