Chrysler 300M

mikeyp

Phases78..how did you remove the lettering off the back..and did you remove off the side?

I was thinking there has to be a way to bore out the 0 on the 300 to fit over the key hole, then place that entire thing right in the middle..

that would look cool huh?
Thanks..Mike

scotian

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1280646&a=13301458&f=0

phases78

yeah i took em off the doors too http://phases78.homestead.com/300m.html it was easy. just a hair dryer (if its not hot enough there!) some dental floss to 'saw' behind the letters, and some good surface cleaner, and perhaps some polish/wax that helps too. real easy!

madchemist1

...is different than others I have seen on this board. The only pics I have seen are the "round" filters. K&N makes filters that fit in the stock filter housing? What's the part number and where did you get it? And just think, I JUST changed my air filter not more than 5 minutes ago! LOL!

phases78

im not sure the part number, its on the club website, you can get it at most automotive places... easy install..

ajpiii

Yesterday I decided to disconnect my negative battery terminal to see what impact resetting the M'z computer would have... WOW what a difference, its waaaaaaaay faster, and shifts waaaaaaaaaaay better... Any of you guys who have modified your cars and not reset the computer, do it !

tnsc_300m

sdmike has a website with a listing of popular 300M parts including the K&N air filter. Its a msword .doc file and

should come up in your browser

here's the link.

http://www.ritchiefamily.com/misc/partnumbers.doc

also for more info:

http://www.knfilters.com/

guesswho1

must be ready for the Specials to come in because they have goofed on the description of the only 02's they have in stock in the Atlanta area, go to www.carmax.com and do a search they come up 2002 300m special, well we know their database is ready anyway. something tells me that this special isn't really anything special. why are they keeping this such a secret anyway? Otto what's up are the beretta ground effects not in? or are they waiting on Germany to send over some turn signal mirrors?

avalanche165

LOL, that was a good one tom. it was deal dealer BS, smoething not uncomming with wonderful 5* dealers. but the these solenoids are sensored, no not censored, sensored. just like the benzito's. if you are auto rollin up and you hand,arm,leg,pelvis, whatever is there it won't roll up anymore, it will stop and then roll back down.

avalanche165

ok i just spent a small fortune on these clk55 mirrors, and now i gotta spend hours upon hours molding them on. all for that damn signal light, lol. but cool thing is they come with the hologram turn signal as well. so i cancelled my order for muth. but are the 300m specials gonna come with these mirrors!!! ???? if so i gotta send these back and just bolt those on there!

sel714

Went for my appointment at my 5 star today. Told them I thought my front end rattle might be the strut caps. It turned out to be the sway bar link.
parts 64.45 labor 35.00. While i was there i had the oil changed and the tires rotated. And i noticed an ad for Borla exhaust for the PT cruiser up on there bulletin board. I ask the service manager and he said that they had installed over 80 on PT cruisers. I ask if they could install one on my M. So happens they could and they had one in stock an could do it right then while i waited. Wow i said how much? Parts labor and tax it came to 617.52 I had it done everything was finished in two hours an 20 minutes. The Borla sway bar oil change tire rotation I was impressed. And am very please with the Borla.
It has a nice throaty sound. It does not have the venturis. But i don't think i need them its not overly loud. Put about 40 miles on it today. Can't wait for this weekend. Will take a little road trip. The real test will come in the morning when the wife takes the car to work. Its her daily driver and I haven't said a thing about the new exhaust to her. She plays the stereo pretty loud. I will bet she won't even notice it.
sel714

avalanche165

this guy must of powder coated, but he did a hell of a job.....

i would put these in a 63' impala ss (workin on one right now)

herm whadda think he used? never seen it done this good before. emailed him and he said he is "not allowed to say"...lol

mykem

The cars I've noticed with the auto-close feature will ONLY WORK when:

The driver puts the key in the drivers door and holds it in the lock position.

The all auto-open feature will work when:

"Unlock" is held down on the key fob.

The driver puts the key in the drivers door and holds it in the unlock position.

I would have liked to see both on the 300... or at least the ability to turn the car off and then close the windows.

-m

mykem

My SO (girlfriend, let's ferget this PC garbage) bought a Sebring sedan with my 'blessing.'

My 'blessing' included me going to the dealership, test driving it, trading my '99 300M in for a '01 300M and telling her to get a new car, since I got a new car.

I also told the dealer that if he gave me a good deal, he would have the sale on the Sebring.

It's not a 300, but I don't cringe when I have to drive it like I did with her '98 Grand Am...

-m

avalanche165

myke we are talking about a the switches inside the car to let you just tap them up or down and the window will auto close/open. instead of holding down the whole way. just a convenience. www.autoloc.com sells a remote, and window kit, comes with all stuff needed, about 2 hr install or pay 30 bucks to get it put in. it will allow you to hold down a button and close all windows, or open all windows. small remote. real nice feature in my opinion. just get out the car, be like whoops forgot to roll up windows....click the button right there, and whammo, windows are up, sunroof close.....no wait, i want some air to get thru, click the other button, and let the windows down just a hair, and then your off to wherever......

avalanche165

what kind is it? are those 6 cyl? drive good?

drive_a_300m

I added one of these units to my 300M a few weeks ago, placed the sensors at the corners of the brake lights. And it works WONDERFUL!! It has 2 sensors, and a voice module to tell me how many feet/inches I am from the object.. Got it for $78 from www.autotoys.com - go to the search page and look for "backup alarm" links to direct products don't seem to work too well.

mykem

the one she got was the 2.7L V6.

Certainly not as powerful, it's a hoot to drive a smaller car with similiar characteristics... I can fit into tighter spaces, for instance.

-m

herrmdogg

I will give the guy credit on his powder coat job but he took a perfectly good CHROME rim and turned it into NASTY gold (looks extremely cheap) ... I have yet to see a rim that looks good in gold. He did a good job coating them, but he ruined them in the process, they look like @$$.

PHASES78 - What is the word on that billet grille?

I FINALLY GOT MY CAR BACK LAST NIGHT !!!!!!!!

Not that anyone cares, but I'm pretty happy about it. This weekend I will be installing my Xenon hyperwhite fog lights, removing all of my lettering, and putting in my clock face SCOTIAN made me (thanx again man) and pics will be posted soon after on my website. I bought another 300M emblem (the one from the bottom right rear of the trunk) from the dealer and will be removing the black ones from the front quarter panels and replacing them with the ones from the bottom right trunk area. If it looks GHETTO then I'll just take it back off, but I think it may look good. I have to have something left on the car that matches the emblem on my switchbox.

AVALANCHE I will email you back today, I just haven't had a chance until now.

http://members.cardomain.com/herrmdogg

HerrmDogg

russklass

My wife bought an '01 Sebring LXi (V-6, autostick) last November.
The car is loaded ($25,000 MSRP)and so far she is very happy with it after 10,000 miles.
I enjoy driving it occassionally, and think of it as a 7/8 scale 300M.

scotian

I mounted it right behind my rear passenger seat facing forward, and fiddled with the controls so that it seems to sound right. A couple of the controls don't seem to do much. I'm not an audiophile, but I knew my bass was not what it should have been, and now it's much better.

I secured it by a 10" piece of thin flat metal holding in place two screws which go through the trunk "carpet" and through the forward/front two Basslink feet with spacers and wing nuts. When I accelerate it should be held in place, and when I decelerate the back of the seat will stop it from going too far. If I drive with the seat down, I'll have to add another screw in back, I suppose.

grunschev

Got back from Colorado the other day. We had a fine time, except for getting rained on almost every day. Only went hiking once. Oh well.

Here are some of the highlights of the trip: Wolf Creek pass, Big Thompson canyon, Eisenhower tunnel, Vail pass, McClure pass, Red Mountain Pass (and it's two smaller brothers, Coal Bank and whatever the other one is). There was only one problem with all this -- weekend tourist traffic! At one point it was so bad we went only 17 miles in an hour and a half (highway 285 from Crow Hill to Conifer).

But I did manage to find one unobstructed stretch of twisty-turnies. There's a county road that goes from Drake to Estes Park through Glen Haven. I think it's called Devil's Gulch Road on the Estes Park side. Fourteen sweet miles with a maximum speed limit of 25 and no straights longer than a couple hundred yards. I had my brother and father with me instead of the wife and kid. They wanted a demonstration of the springs and tires. About half way through my dad cried "uncle!" It was entirely too much fun! He no longer shakes his head when he looks at my wide, wide tires. He understands.

As of yesterday, my 36k mile warranty is expired.

Igor

hitek1

I'm in the process of purchasing a 2002 300M or 2001 depending on the deal that I get and I have narrowed down the choices of color between white, black, and silver. I currently have a Navy Blue Chevrolet Malibu and keeping that baby clean constantly is harder than I expected! Does anyone have a 300M in any of the above colors and if so do you happen to have any suggestions as to which colors are particularly easier/harder to maintain.

tucsongil

After reading Tony's post(7806) about resetting the computor, I decided to do this since I did not after doing my dual exhuast.

I removed the panel in front of the right front wheel this morning to get to the battery. It seems that the battery was held down, so I removed the top of the air box to remove the whole box to find where the battery was held down at.

Here is my problem. Is the air box held down just by the rubber gramlets being pushed in? So all I need to do is pull the air box out? For I put a screw driver in the holes in the side of the air box and I did not feel a screw(just rubber).

Can I reset the computor on top by disconnecting the the jumper negative line on the frame? Or I need to reset by the negative battery termanal?

LMK

fuzzywuzzy

I have a 00 in silver. It's easy to keep clean. & when it's dirty, it doesn't look like it from a distance. I also have a black truck, & black is hard to keep clean. The white I do not know about.

cmyers300m

I have a black 2001, it's looks the best when clean, but I would have to say a silver one would be your best bet. My wife has a white van and it is hard to keep clean, I wouldn't recommend that color either.

avalanche165

herm i thought you were shaving off all emblems?

i welded those holes shut, up on the fenders. the emblems are hung up in my bedroom, and 2 door handles are hung from the ceiling....;)

drpixel

what a guy--getting your S.O./girlfriend a new car! Thats what I call real class!
Just got back from hospital w/Linda, MY schweetie, who had a colonoscopy (...oooch..) with benefit of Magic drugs--hey, you wouldn't want a six foot hose snaked up without, would you? Fortunately, all is well no cancer, no anything--just colon. I was extremely concerned, as nurses were coming out, looking for family members of everyone ELSE in the waiting room. I thought they found something really bad, and somehow forgot about me. Thankfully, that wasn't the case--the REAL doctor just got there a bit late.
Linda and I have been married 31 years--32 this September 26th; and (..at the rsik of getting sappy....) I don't know what I'd do without her. We met in my last year of high school, and haver been together/known each other since then. With so many marriages these days ending in divorce, I am truly blessed. took the day off to take to the hospital--gorgeous outside: think I'll go give eMily a good bath! See youse all tonight in the chatroom.
Doc

ajpiii

You can remove the cable where its easiest to get at... I disconnected both cables where they met up, and kep them seperated from each other as well as the chasis.

bigmike5

Glad all went well for your wife. I have the shorter version of that procedure up for Oct with the VA. They push the screening real hard supposedly starting at 50, so at 59 I relented and told them to schedule. Hope the drugs work!!

avalanche165

good news, i know some of you have the 16's, cuz the 99' phps didnt have the 17 inch option, but you can getem, even come with sweet tires...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=594356055

just for those of you who were looking for these rims and didn't get'em when you bought the car...ruski asked right?

silverbullet4

Hitek-Got the bright silver. With the Zaino wax, it shines right through the dirt. You have to get within 6-8 feet to see if it's dirty. Black is the worst-and it shows swirl marks and fine scratches. White shows anything that drops or spatters on the car (road tar, tree sap) the worst. If you have a choice, get the Inferno Red. See sdmike2's car-it dazzles!

Silver

avalanche165

i never really noticed how nice these wheels are. i think we definitely have some of the best factory wheels around...

travmn

is there any other known dual exhaust setups aside from the hujo design? next thing i'd like to do is do the dual exhaust on my 300, but i've been studying the Hujo Dual Exhaust diagrams, and am not too thrilled with the way it looks. Too many 90degree turns which could hurt the exhaust flow. If anyone knows of any other proven solutions, or has been working on another setup, let me know as I would be greatly interested. Thanks,
travis

scotian

are the best factory wheels anywhere, and better than most all aftermarket wheels, IMHO.

scotian

You need only remove the big nut and place to the side of its bolt (there is a hole molded into the plastic for this):

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=1280646&a=9790406&p=47449425&f=0

fuzzywuzzy

Other then that, & the Borla system, that's all I've seen. I wouldn't worry about the 90 degree bends. Flow is increased not decreased. It's proven. There are only 3 turns anyway. The bend to get to the rear muffler from the front, & then the 2 bends at each end of that muffler going out the car to the tips. Not enough to cause any restrictions.

spyboy

My '01 M is silver. A real easy color. But I agree, inferno red is by far THE
color! When I had to choose, the inferno wasn't equipped with anything.
My next choice was white (really pretty I think, but again, did not have the
goodies I wanted). But "silvergirl" had it ALL! Good luck.

easyrider300m

I think Avalanche has the system you want---duals staight back from the cats---a little louder but a true dual exhaust

russklass

I sent all registered participants in Dream Cruise 2001 an update today.
If you plan to attend, and did not receive it, please let me know.
3 more days!

guesswho1

thanks for the replies, my sis is waiting on the 02's to come in at carmax so maybe she can get in one before the end of the month.

avalanche165

yea i have straight back from cats...it is a lot louder than most ppl like. however i just sound dpethned most of the car and inside the cabin its still annoying sometimes, like highway speeds, but nothing a little music can;t get over. its not that annoying anyway, still worth it....here aer some short clips i posted awhile ago...

reflect.mpg

far_away.mpg

exhaust.mpg

avalanche165

yea scotian definitely a the best stock rims i've seen. and a lot better than some of those aftermarket rims. most ppl wouldn't even know those are stock rims on a 300 until they see the same rim on 20/20 m's. they are real nice rims, but....nothing compared to 20's

russklass

Loved the exhaust.mpg with my digital speakers w/subwoofer!

avalanche165

yea man i was hoping someone would listen to it with a subwoofer, sounds awesome!

listen to this oen, its even better...

http://frealfso.frostburg.edu/cs1101f00/janjuao/whoa/rev3.wav

trav check that out, coming into highway just shifting easy with autostick. kinda loud when its warmed up...but DEFINITELY a performance, plus with gears and a stroker motor, thats when a fire breathing exhaust liek this will come in handy

travmn

i like the sound of ava's setup. does anyone got any wav clips of the hujo setup? i would love to hear the difference. thanks

mikeyp

it was that easy? I have some good floss, hair dryer and some rubbing compound to help remove the last sticky stuff..do you think that it will work? What did you use?

Scotian..sorry, but removing the trunk lock is a tad over my head..I was thinking about covering it up...

thanks..

sirharper

Yesterday I got my brand new Borla installed!! I absolutely love it!! The performance shop I work with here in Cincinnati order one for me about 3 weeks ago from a regional distributor. When the first one arrived it sustained heavy shipping damage so they called Borla directly. It turns out that Borla had just reworked the model #14835F that goes on the 300M. They had none of the #14835F in stock since they all were in distribution. Borla shipped a brand new version the #14835H which had not been released to consumers yet!! This was great news for 3 reasons: the reworked model is priced at over $800 and I got mine for the old $535 price, the new model had the annular rings pre-installed reducing vibration, and the new model has a quick release muffler coupler allowing fast changeover to several of their motorsport muffler options. Prior to install I was deeply concerned about the noise problems that many here seemed to face. I am absolutely delighted with the sound this new Borla makes, far from offensive in any way. Performance improvement is outstanding especially in low speed and low RPM situations. I also make a custom cold air intake om my own with a K&N cone filter and carbon fiber tubing. I can now turn the traction control off and peel the "Badyears" out for almost a full 3 seconds (without doing my infamous "torque-load" technique)!!! I will post picts of both soon!!

Now I need to disconnect the battery to reset the EMU. Have we established that removing the "upper" negative battery post lug will accomplish this? I really don't want to take the tire off!

easyrider300m

dont use the compound, it will make the finish uneven with the rest of the car---go with either wd40 or googone that others have tried

emblem placement suggestion---those of you with the side marker lights--maybe you could consider mounting the 300M emblem on the black area behind the rear window---or maybe even better, get ones like the one on the trunk which is a little larger and bolder and mount it behind the rear windows--would look great with the chrysler letters removed---anyone want to try it and take a photo so we can check it out?

silverbullet4

Loved it with headphones! I liked the faux stick shift effect you achieved.

Silver