The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.
The car thread: A Toyotathon of Death
jgeis
Registered User regular
Registered User regular
So, the old car thread is dead and it's time someone started a new one, might as well be me. Plus I'm excited for the return of the TURBO'D BUICK REGAL:
Yeah, it's getting the 2.0L turbocharged EcoTec from the Solstice and Sky GXP, but detuned to just 220HP. Still, pretty awesome.
Also, there are only 16 Pontiac G8 GXP's and 570 GT's on dealer lots, get them while you can.
Yeah, it's getting the 2.0L turbocharged EcoTec from the Solstice and Sky GXP, but detuned to just 220HP. Still, pretty awesome.
Also, there are only 16 Pontiac G8 GXP's and 570 GT's on dealer lots, get them while you can.
jgeis on
0
This discussion has been closed.
Posts
maybe for the GS?
Would have been so much easier to do when I had the engine out but whoops forgot!
I know it's sometimes apparently normal for some whining (I don't know, I've never owned a turbocharged car before), but it never used to happen (the car is getting pretty old in terms of mileage, it's done close to 190k kms (118k miles). Last service it went for the guys didn't mention anything, but that was back when it was only a little whine. I might get it checked a little more thoroughly when I next go.
Maybe, but I'm going to guess that they'll either use a fully tuned 2L EcoTec turbo or just put in the 3.6L LLT V6 out of the Camaro/LaCrosse/Enclave for the GS.
Could be the bearings in the turbo slowing wearing out.
Need to replace the hoopty, because it is worth maybe 900, and it needs new tires and a new switch thingy in the dash to make the turn signals work. And you can no longer open the driver's door from the outside.
also wrt to the turbo buick:
how is a turbo 4 cylinder buick sedan exciting on anything but opposite day
this isn't exactly a GNX here
Still gotta drive about 7-9 hours before I get my license.
There are some gauges you don't want on the inside.
Like a fuel pressure gauge.
Either way, it's a beast of a car.
have you got overly large feet or are you driving two-footed?
t xero yes for whatever reason i like those squarish 80s cars
For some reason my leg is only comfortable when my foot is between the two pedals :S
Could you stop by the store before you drop the kids off at soccer practice, darling?
NaC needs some pads. Supers please.
Damn, Zero.
Damn.
Sure and I'll do it faster than you can in your Altima :P
Next batmobile
Wow, that is a really great joke about subcompact cars. Do you write your own material?
You drive a fit, the material writes itself
I am merely a vessel
We fixed them last time by messing with some of the wiring, I might take part of the dash off on my lunch break and try to fix them again. Least it wasn't raining this morning!
All I want is something with AWD and I can fit into (6'3, 230 lbs).
I thnk the 4-dr ones are ugly as sin, but I like the Sport 2-dr ones.
My wipers stopped working in the middle of a trip to Purdue to see my girlfriend. A little over an hour from home, stuck in one lane construction traffic in the middle of a rainstorm. They eventually started working again after I fiddled with the stalk for a few minutes, but I was sooo scared I'd be stuck on the side of the road with no wipers.
Great if you go off roading a lot
Not so great if you don't like having to take anything of value out of the car with you whenever you park
What are you looking for exactly? Just daily transportation or something else?
I just got into my car at lunch, and they work again! Chalking this up to a freak occurrence that won't happen again.
try leaning your shin on the side of the centre console
Ha ha, yep. Intermittant electrical faults always go away by themselves.
It's probably a bad earth, or the wiper fuse clip in the fuse box has corrosion buildup on the contacts. May be a loose wire, but they don't tend to just come loose unless you have touched them previously.
I think my problem is located within the windshield wiper/cruise control/brights stalk. The cruise control works when it wants to, the wipers started acting up and I can't even engage my brights, because I have a hell of a time disengaging them.
Might be because of all the rattlin' third-gen Camaro's do. Something is probably loose in there.