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What do you guys use to clean the interior dash and doors of your M's? As I mentioned before, the dark Agate shows a lot of the dust but I have just ran into another problem. This morning when rounding a curve and the sun was out, the dash reflection on the windshield was the worst I've ever noticed and I couldn't see a thing. I felt the car hit the grass on the burm a little but after continuing to turn the reflection disipated. I'm not sure what can be done about this but it's kind of a safety hazard.
The dash reflection was one of the first things that my wife mentioned to me after driving our 300M. She said it was hard to see in bright sunlight. Not sure what the solution is. Anyone have any suggestions?
Dave
The dash reflection was one of the first things that my wife mentioned to me after driving our 300M. She said it was hard to see in bright sunlight. Not sure what the solution is. Anyone have any suggestions?
Dave
I bought the Bosh spark plugs yesterday. They do have 300M specific ones. I went to their website, & got the right part #. I will install them this weekend, & might have time to do the next series of G-tech runs.
I had mine done just last week, and they are %100 better. I asked the service manager if these are the same or a new design. He told me because it began to happen allot they redesigned for replacements. Hopefully they won't shrink.
Brian
The only lessons I learned is what gets the foam off your hands and out of hair. For hands I (eventually) used nail polish remover and soilax. For hair I used the old buble gum trick peanut butter and a few finger nails.
So I got about 2 square inches of foam in, almost two full cans of foam in the garbage, and an incredible stress level!!!
I was hoping to do this before putting on splash gurds, but this is one that I will have to try some other day.
Brian
Ed Hanson Muffler
3916 North Barcelona St.
Spring Valley, CA 91977
619-698-7030
I like the way the Highs look in the day with the lights off as well.. You can see the blue from the bulb reflecting throughout light... Looks nice...
Brian
Keith
Here is what I had done to mine:
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1501794&a=11408326&f=0
Hi! My name is Amy. I am the Parts and Accessories Rep for the Jeep Warehouse. I do have offerings for some items with the 300M logo, or name, or car imprinted on them. Here is what I have o offer:
White Adult T-shirt sizes M-2XL 300 Millennium Muscle with picture of black 300M
$19.98
Neck Tie Light Gray in color at bottom of tie the logo 300 m, also has more Chrysler type name plates floating all over tie (nice looking, not gaudy, or over powering.)
$35.00
Also, quit a few T's and sweatshirts, and polo style shirts with the Chrysler Wings logo, also, have hats with Chrysler wings logo
If there is something particular you are looking for let me know, I may be able to help.
Thank you for your inquiry. I can be reached Monday thru Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. eastern standard time at 1-800-339-7708.
Or at the parts@jeepwarehouse.com
The rest of you guys have given me the courage to proceed with installing the lows and highs. I always wanted to take my front end apart anyway. You just never know when you're going to have to do that for an emergency!
When I had the car at the dealer for inpection, I asked the service writer about it and told him I was concerned about all the electronics under the hood. He recomended covering the rectangular plastic box on the drivers side that has fuses and relays in it. I covered mine with alum. foil and sprayed everything under the hood with Simple Green (engine was cool). I then hosed it down with high pressure water and then blew it off with compressed air. We have hard water here in PA, if you dont blow the water off thoroughly, you end up with water spots all over. I also dab everything I can with a towel to make it look as good as possible. Needless to say, this is sloppy; you must then wash the rest of car as well. Once the whole car is washed and dried, start up the engine and run for a while to warm it up and drive off the remaining moisture.
Simple Green is a very mild cleaner, its no good for a 10 year old car with baked on areas of hard black oil residue. What I really like about it is that is rinses off with absolutely no remaining residue. My engine now looks every bit as good as it did a year ago and by doing this once a year I'm sure it will stay this nice.
-Frank
Exhaust Information
Big Red's new dual exhaust
Roger- I recommend midnightmoose also. They are the ones I bought mine from. These are the proper type to buy. They are optically dyed glass. Not the cheap coated bulbs. They are currently having a dutch aution on Ebay as we speak. You can get High's and Low's for $34.95 plus shipping here is the auction site. There are only 2 sets available. don't bid against each other they offer them every week. I bought my H3's for only $11.99 in a seperate auction
http://cgi.ebay.aol.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=580805186
http://cgi.ebay.aol.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=581085046
Keith
leather
DC changer (4 disc)
9 infinity speakers
Chrome aluminum wheels
and all of those other creature comforts (climate control etc.)
and the 300M has only 4 more options than the concorde:
2 more infinity speakers (which you cannot hear)
Bun warmers (which are useless anywhere but antarctica)
a constantly malfunctioning seat memory
and an all but imperceptible 25 extra horses under the hood.
I paid $28,000 for more than well equipped concorde, after looking at the $33,000 price tag on the 300M. why pay some $5,000 more for 3 largely useless options?
You must not be from Chicago ... or anywhere where it snows.
But wait, there's more!
My seat memories have always worked.
and an all but imperceptible 25 extra horses under the hood
I guess 0.5s better 0-60 times are imperceptible. Tell that to the rush hour traffic behind you when you're merging.
2 more infinity speakers (which you cannot hear)
By that logic, why do I have DTS-EX in my house when mono will do just as well?
And who says we paid $33,000? I got my 300M fully loaded, minus PHP for less than $28,000.
Options useless to you, of course. I guess we should all become you.
-m
To everyone: I know, I know... leave the trolls alone. This Sarcastic Scarf and Cynical Cap just won't come off quite that easily today.
All-I just noticed something about my M as I was washing the engine last night after it's bath. Has anyone else noticed the bubble levels for the headlights like the Viper has? If you haven't, pop the hood and look at the headlight pod from above. You'll see a small 1/2" by 1 1/2" slot between the two bulbs cut into the black plastic over the radiator. Look closely and you'll see two high precision bubble levels for headlight aiming! Cool! Never have noticed them.
BTW-What kind of idiot who got a REALLY bad deal on a Concorde comes here to attempt to bash the M? That's like saying "My Yugo is almost as good as your Lexus and costs less!". He needs a bit more chlorine in his gene pool, and that's quite a putdown coming from an Alabama resident!! ;-)
Executive summary: full tank of gas, level surface, proper tire inflation.
It is cool, nonetheless! Want more cool? The book says there are reference marks on the lenses to assist in locating lamp centers.
We've come a long way since sealed beam headlights, baby!
-m
The M has better looks and more features and is more performance oriented. Bigger wheels are a plus and xtra horsepower can be the difference between surviving or being run over by an 18 wheeler when entering the highway.
They give me a free loaner whenever i bring it in for any repairs.
so much for your bargain--but enjoy your Concorde--they're both fine automobiles.
Easyrider300M
Second wear gloves and a facemask (full face) like the wood workers uses in wood shops. I like you learned this the hard way. I still have a couple of carrage supports to do. Am spraying under coating near the exhaust humps to reduce more noise.
One question, has anyone put just a plain Y in place of the front collector as my Midas shop wanted to do?
I have not seen a bad dual exhaust system yet, from you guys.
Big Red's Lungs
I agree with you on the value of this group. I never considered putting duals on my M until I read, saw, and heard about it in this forum (I'm not typically a tinkerer). I truly appreciate the effort put forth by those before me that documented, diagramed and photographed what they have done with their cars so we can all see what's possible and make our own informed decisions. This is why I documented what I had done too...giving some back to the group.
Mike
The 42LE transmission seems to like to stay in high gear too long after deccelerating and there is a delay in moving to a lower gear when reaccelerating. The dealer may be able to program this out. The quick fix is to use autostick and downshift it yourself just before accelerating. Of course, there is a slight delay is when you move the stick and when the tranny actually shifts.
Yeah, I agree with sdmike2 in that I use autostick in bumper to bumper slow traffic. I like to stay in 2nd gear, rather than have every little momentary short burst of speed above 10-20mph put the tranny in 3rd or 4th gear. Saves the brakes a lot in slow traffic. Let the tranny control vehicle speed by feathering the accelerator accordingly.
JTalbot@BroadwayTrading.com
As for the features, I have a 2000 deep slate/agate 300M with the sunroof, full spare, great-looking 17" chrome wheels, and that big 11-speaker stereo with a CD Changer. I never heard the standard stereo before--the one you only have as an upgrade--but mine is superb, almost like being in a concert. And those magnificent 17" chrome wheels just make the car look even better--not at all like those ugly 16" Medallion things on your car. I love those bun warmers no matter what the day is like--they just sooth your back--and while the memory is nice it can be a little wacky sometimes when it doesn't work.
Performance is a whole other issue. I have never thought the 300M is quick or even nearly as fast as that 253-horsepwer suggests (note, none of that power comes on fully until your at 6400 RPM, come on Chrysler!) but with 20 less horses I can't imagine how slow your car is.
Price wise, I again have a little bit of an issue. The 300M drives very much like the gussied up Intrepid that it is--that's not all bad but could be better. As for the Concorde I just don't see why its price is kind of high also. Solution, lower the 300M's price to the Concorde level and then drop the Concorde itself down a bit. But then again why bother? With all the incentives and dealing dealers, you can get a great 300M for a pretty good price. My dealer's price was simple: $32,360 MSRP - $3,000 rebate - $2,000 dealer incentive = $27,360. This was offered over the phone in about two minutes without haggling. The same dealer also had fully-optioned LXI Concordes at the same time for $22,600.
I hope you like your Concorde but just remember, each of us 300M owners LOVES our cars ten times more!!