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Old Aug 22, 2007 | 09:21 AM
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Default Just back with my "NEW" SRT

Well, I just put 5,400 miles in three weeks on a new SRT I picked up at Speedway Motors in Chicago. Did a beautiful road trip thru the SE and SW during the heat wave. I saw temps as high as 115 over black pavement, and the car behaved almost flawlessly. On incredibly hot days, after being off for a few mins I would run into some vapor lock, having to run the starter twice to get ignition, otherwise the temps were good, but as its a black car, the a/c could barely keep up and the glass felt like a blast furnace.

A few thoughts - this car is reasonably light for a modern performance car, but much more a GT than an urban sports car. With its long legs it wants to run at license threatening speeds. Cops in AZ are nice, I got popped for 118 in Williams, bought him a steak over his break, and he wrote me for 10 over and "kept me out of jail for the night".

I would like more exhaust blat on the highway as anything over about 85 is mostly intake roar. Does the removal of the forward resonators result in too much edge in the city, or is it tolerable?? How about warranty??

One of the lower intake mesh grills came off, trying to get replaced on warranty, and the ebay ones only secure to the existing ones, so no joy there. In Canada so had Daytime Running lights installed, only the little LED light in the upper outside corner is on now during lights off, and it looks very cool. After two years exposure, the lenses are full of hairline cracks and oxidized, so I wonder if there is any way of just replacing the lenses short of replacing the entire assembly. If not, I will try dark tint just to pimp it out and live with it I guess. Need to reset the tire warning system as I had to plug a nail hole in the lower pass meats, other than that, I am having way too much fun with traction off around town!
 
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