Chrysler 300M

scotian

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=1280646&a=13301166&p=50807098

sdmike2

That hole is where the fratersnapf dingnils the zardoruff!

-M

tucsongil

This is not my week!

I recieved the Joshua Tree wood trim kit and it turn out to be a bad kit! I told Mike Smith(the owner of Joshua Tree) about the many problems with his second party kit(he is not the manufacture) via email and he did not offer to do anything about the kit!

The first two pieces(driver side window buttons and power seat trim) of the kit fit fine at first(yesterday I noticed that the power seat trim is now cracked). I did these two small pieces first to get an idea of how to install the wood trim before doing the big trim pieces. Then came the problems.

Several pieces were miscut with the shifter piece being off very bad at the lower driver side thus showing quite a bit of the black plastic.I will give more details at a later date.

Since Mike from Joshua Tree told me via email that since I installed the first two pieces he can not and will not do anything about the rest of my defective kit pieces, I have informed my credit card company about this defective product and have began a billing dispute/investigation to get my account credited in full!

Others here who have gotten a good kit from Joshua Tree, I am happy for! But I happen to get a bad kit and now I must go to war over it.

mikeyjohn

I did not seem to have a problem with my woodtrim kit, but I did notice that I had a crack on my radio trim, I thought that I had caused the problem myself but now I am beginning to wonder. I'm having another piece sent to me but I had to pay $35.00 plus $10.00 shipping, and if any of you know the difference between the Cdn and US dollar, this is an expensive problem fo me. If anyone else has had the same problem let us know and maybe I can go back through VISA.

exshoman

Anybody here ever have to clean off bubblegum from their paint? There's a bunch above the rear wheel well. Can't imagine how it got there. It doesn't look like the tire flung it there, as it's not a single blob but kinda spread all over the place.

I tried just pulling it off, but its warm enough here so that it's pretty sticky. I'll try washing it off tomorrow, hopefully the coats of Zaino I've got on it will help it come off.

russklass

I have an '01 300M with the Luxury Group which features real California wood burl trim. I received one of the first kits Joshua Tree shipped for the Luxury Group.

The only problem I had was that the shifter trim was the pattern for the early '99, with the holes for the shift indicators, not the slots as on later models.

It took 6 weeks, and 4 shipments for the Mexican supplier to get the right combination of pattern and wood, but they finally got it. Mike Smith was very cooperative, and there was no cost to me for the replacements.

Work with Mike and he will come thru; he gets frustrated with the Mexican supplier too! Besides, compare his prices to some others out there.

One comment: You need to dry fit each piece first, and be sure to warm the pieces thoroughly so they will comform to the surface where they are fitted.

Here's the link to my installation:

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1501794&a=11408326

sdmike2

Try Goo Gone. You should be able to get it at most hardware or automotive stores. It won't damage your paint and it removed gum (at least from berber carpet) like a charm.

dkrhardy

I've seen the posts for Joshua Tree kits and kept my mouth shut until now. I too ordered a kit from them and had bad pieces. They were discovered prior to installing them, but the darn things should be right the 1st time! All the phone calls, Emails, trips to the post office SHOULD NOT have to be done. For my 2001 R/T I ordered from another company and darned if it didn't turn out correct the 1st time. I have ZERO confidence in Joshua Tree. $.02

tnsc_300m

Greetings fellow 300M fans,

most of you how follow this forum closely known there was animpromptu meet in Knoxville, TN this weekend (06-23-01). myself (tnsc_300M), Avalanche165, and Phases78, got together and checked out each others 300M's, hung out, and just had a generally great time. and YES we did take some pictures.

300M Tennessee Meet pics:


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Here a link to some of the rest of the photopoint album:


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ottowrkr

nice pics , three really nice looking 300M's.

tnsc_300m

Myself, Phases78, and Avalanche165
Had a great time together, albeit too short.

Thank you to Phases and AV I learned a lot from you Guys today and look forward to doing it again soon. You're both outstanding folks and i'm glad i got to meet you in person.

Folks, Phases has an awesome 2001 300M. its mint inside and out. Gorgeous wood trim kit. And now I know I Have to get the dual exhaust mods. Phases it sounds GREAT!!! and I can tell the performance difference.

Yep folks AV's cars looks greater inperson than his pics. I love the Hood scoop. and the shaved rear doors and trunklid. And his Sound system, OMG!!!!
He's got some awesome things in store in the near future!! He brought his brother with and he's got a Subaru WRX so watch out for him too. :-)

It's late now but I'll post more later.

TNSC_300M

tnsc_300m

otto, thanks for building us three fantastic cars !

tnsc_300m

phases78

man was that a good time or what? i wish more of you could have been there, you missed a great time!! all to short...

av i wish u could have stayed a bit longer! but it was fun whiles it lasted eh? love your car! i gotta get the hood scoop, wife'll kill me, but you know, lol. to your bro, nice to meet you man! we'll definatley have to get together again and i can perhaps show you 'my toy' mwahahah! plus i need to see your car!

tnsc man i had a blast, you have a great family too! even if i only got to meet half, but hey, at least i met most the m&m's! haha! i gotta tell you, that color of your car, is it! im thinkin of gettin myne pained that way! good luck with the sparkies too...

well guys, it was awesome and im sorry more of you couldnt come.. maybe next time? be sure to check out the site tnsc set up for some of the other pics!

p.s. your gonna love his 'misshap' hehe ill let hime tell you about it.

p.s.s. test drove a php today too, that was awesome!

ottowrkr

Thanks to you guys who are so passionate about them . It's good to see some of today's cars still evoke that feeling in people.

tnsc_300m

Phases and i tooka little side trip to a nearby Chrysler dealer and took a 2001 300M PHP for a spin. great car we both have non PHP's and wanted to see what the big diff was and compare notes.
I can definently tell a braking and steering response improvement. lane changes and turns were much flatter and smoother.

for curiosity we asked the dealer about what he'd sell for. the sticker on the car was $35,180 with a $1500 rebate. his price to me with my 99 300M @ 60K miles as a trade.... I'd have to come up with $16K. this car was manuf. 9-29-00 has been on this lot for several months and he has two of em, Identical. after a few mins of "discussion" he "showed" his invoice for the car @ $31,850 and said that w/ a $1500 rebate was best he could do. Geez.
So we left. no wonder the cars both of em are still sitting there. Great cars, Lousy sales team.

When we got back to my house we dicovered a faux paus. We'd but a wet towel and 2 ice pack on top of the intake to cool it down to change the plugs for new Platinum+4's guess what I'd forgot to check before I closed the hood for our little trip and we we got back there they still were.
One had gotten hot and melted but no damage to anything. just embarrasing as all get out.
we had quite a good laugh on that one.

tnsc_300m

phases78

well rogor, im in, as soon as i can do this bank verification thing, probably not till wednestday for ill be in the field mon adn tue.....

that pic of the three M's tnsc posted, that, or the one thats just like that but with us standing by our cars, we be good canidate for front page eh? hehe. good example of different M's

well its late good night all.

sdmike2

Very cool guys! I wish I didn't live 2,000 miles from Knoxville. Sounds like you had a blast.

-M

scotian

I drove by some POC that had little color neon light tubes at the top of its windows (they sort of had a TV static action to them, not a "solid" light, interesting). They must have seen my NRA logos glowing in my back window because a little later, not to be outdone, it zoomed by with purple neon glowing beneath it. What a sight!

scotian

It sounds like my front suspension is about to collapse. Before there were just squeaks, related to up/down motion and particularly steering, but now each time I hit any bump at all under 40 mph it sounds like someone's hitting it with a baseball bat -- LOUD thumping and grinding, related only to up/down motion. From the outside, it makes a loud clicking noise instead. Also from the outside, I could swear that one of the rear wheels clicks as it goes over a speedbump.

Any ideas? I'll bring it in on Monday; it had better still be making this noise.

traley

Dude when you get that checked out, please post the results. When I drive my car I hear this like clang sound coming from the right rear tire. I've shook and beat all parts of this car and can't duplicate it until I hit a bump. Sounds like some metal. I haven't been able to take it to a dealership, partially because my extended warranty doesn't start until the end of this month and I don't want to take my car in as SOON as my warranty kicks in. Would seem a bit suspicious.

scotian

I thought you couldn't extend warrantys after the original expires. Your car is not under warranty at all right now?

traley

I have an extended warranty through Warranty Gold.
It takes affect 1 month/1000 miles after signing up.

easyrider300m

your problem should be covered by factory warranty---I dont think that extended warranty kicks in until the factory warranty expires---I would take it into the dealer immediately and tell them to correct the prob under warranty---

300michael

I too have the Warranty gold warranty it starts the day my Chrysler warranty ends. It is another reason I am keeping my car. To pay 16K for what I basicly have already doesn't make too much sence. And as for the special I do not think it will show up my M too much if it does at all. Will wait for the N to come out and see.

300michael

Great shots, looks like you all had a fun time.

phases78

any luck w/ those sparkies?

jmcmanus

At the risk of being repetitive, my 300M Club shirt arrived yesterday. I ordered the Burgundy and I love it. Keep up the good work Roger.

phases78

creat a new discussion title? we should get one that says "owners personal 300m sites" where everyone can put links to there pages/sites so that whenever someone wants to view someones page they dont have to keep scrolling up to find the link....

just an idea

tnsc_300m

Phases - Nope, gonna get with my brother tomorrow check out his tool chests to see what may help.

All- We were atttempting to change my stock spark plugs on my 99 300M for the Bosch Platinum +4's. Well some gorilla has superglued the Torx screws on the coil on plugs assembly so tight we weren't able to break 4 of them loose, and 3 of those 4 the torx socket in the screw head stripped out. The metal in those screws seems awfully soft for this application, IMHO.
Anyone else have this experience with their M???
Phases has changed his on his 2001 and he had no major problem. This is the first difficulty I've had with the car and I hate to think I may mave to replace the coil pack if i can't get those screws replaced. They are T25 torx head, captive in the coil pack assembly.
Suggestions and other comments welcome.

TNSC_300M

phases78

if your just sittin around the comp get on yahoo, otherwise, good luck with your bro.

hey, bro, or bro in law lol

p.s. i got like all but four of five off that disk.. im gonna keep trying. it aint easy but at least i got most of em

phases78

ok i got em all, but 002S, 003S and 004S are in bad shape. warped and half the pic is tinted green with some green blotches too. all the rest are good though. those two are the nose to nose pics ill live though

intrepidspirit

To all of you who are ecstatic about receiving your shirt(s) on June 22/23...I hope I will be able to share your ecstasy on June 25! Roger, did you send my shirts on a side trip to Cleveland?

sirharper

I'd like to know what I can do to get a little extra umph! The K&M custom air filter I added made a noticible diference for me (bear in mind I would probably detect as little as an additional 2 hp).

rogor2k

Intrepidspirit - mailed on Friday, you should see them tomorrow (Monday).

All - thanks for all the positive responses. Wear 'em with pride! Also, kudos to my wife (the Club treasurer and associate shirt shipper) for all the work she put into this little endeavor. I couldn't have done it without her help.

rogor2k

We have that feature on the 300M Enthusiasts Club web site. Look under "Other 300M Sites" from the home page, express to http://www.300mclub.org/sites.htm and scroll to the bottom.

tucsongil

MikeyJohn(post #4905), RussKlass(post #4907), and DKRHardy(post #4905) thank you for responding to my post(#4904) on the bad wood trim kit I recievecd from Joshua Tree.

MikeyJohn, if your radio wood trim cracked suddenly like my power seat wood trim did three days later it may not be you fault. I hope the new one works out for you.

DKRHardy, it is too bad that you needed to go back and forth via Email to Mike Smith and back and forth to the post office in order to get your money back on your defective wood trim kit for your Dodge Interpid. I am happy that the next kit you recieved from a deferent company was perfect right from the start!

RussKlass, it took six weeks to get your problem resolved from Joshua Tree! I am happy that it all worked out for you!

I will let you all know the results of my dispute/investagation over my very defective wood trim kit!

sirharper

I got my membership packet yesterday!!!

tucsongil

Great pics of three great looking "M"s guys!

Keep up the good work!

kpm61

Sorry to read about the problems in changing your spark plugs.
Are you the one who melted the cool packs on the intake on the way to the DC dealer ?
If so are these related ?

phases78

yeah we couldnt get all the torc screws off so we put ice and a towel on it to cool it down, then decided to go to the dealer and took both cars, forgeting that we had all that under the hood. they were all screwed on dont worry lol, just some were to tight to get off. then later we tried a couple more times to get them off and ended up stripping a few of em......

tbelote

scotian

A while back I tore apart a 12v flatbed scanner. I finally decided what to do with its light source -- put it in my M's trunk!

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aj_tomasi

Hey All, Long Time listener, First Time taller

I just put in my Bosh 4+ and I tipped two screws. I had to drill into the screw and use a special tool to get the screws out. I just when to Home Depot and told them my problem and they got the "tool" which is about $2-$3 it's some backwards screw.

You drill into the screw and then put this backwards screw in and torque it till you get the stripped screw out. It was a tough one though.

To Me the plugs made me engine quieter and smoother. Honest!

sdmike2

Hey Roger, I think those subs are coming to us from florida via mule train. The UPS tracking information indicates mine was shipped on the 21st and the arrival date is the 29th. Sheesh. Don't these people know I can't wait for my gratification! lol

moparrob

Emmy is a piece of junk!

easyrider300m

why not try using a small vise grip on the head of the screw---be sure engine is cooled off first==then replace the damaged screw=-

Scotian: dont let that guy moparrob bother you---he drives a "cheep"---so what can you expect from an SUV owner--PS : like your web page--nice alarm system and radar detector install---did you wire all that stuff yourself--

avalanche165

hey guys, back from tennesee, it was great, i'm defintely gonna try and come down to the club meet. Mike and phases are two terrific ppl, it was fun hangin out with'em. hopefully guys we can chill in the future. it was a real blast. mike your color is awesome. i agree with phases. and phase, nice exhaust, should be see'in that soon on mike's, as soon as that red intrepid rolls around

avalanche165

Herm this goes out to you, i'm not sure whether i want these 20's anymore. too many horror stories with a 35 series tire. how hard are 20's on 35 series tire to bend? i'm think 18s or 19s and slam it 2 inches, with a 40 or 45 series tire on. help me out if i'm wrong....

fuzzywuzzy

When I put my Bosch plugs in, I was able to get all but 1 bolt out. I almost stripped that 1, but I used a hammer, & banged the torx driver into that bolt very hard, then used a little ratchet & got it out.

fuzzywuzzy

The bolt pattern for the 300M all years is 5X4.5
Don't know what that is in MM though