Tell them you assumed the caps came with the wheels.

 

Already did,

 

I'll take the time today to give the leather in my coupe a good cleaning & treatment. I try to do this 2x/year - spring & fall.

 

Hi everyone,
My wife and I wanted to get out of the house and since it is a beautiful day we took the Crossfire out for a drive. I am still impressed with this car. It is sixteen years old and not one rattle and the car rides and drives like new. Very impressive. Put around 75 miles on it and we had a great drive. Passed many closed restaurants, ice cream shops, and two wineries. We hope this virus ends soon so everyone can get back to normal. Everyone stay safe out there.

 

Disabled my TPMS easy peezy. I’ve thought about getting the Bluetooth caps that you can check on your phone or a HU that supports it. I think the Joying HU has that option. I’ve thought about buying that HU. The Sony XAV AX-100 that I have is a little small for the new Double Din kit’s so I’ve had to look at other options.

 

Not the Crossfire but I just pulled-off the largest auto-repair I've EVER DONE. I replaced all the gaskets on the front engine cover which meant I had to remove the oil-pan too cuz the front-cover goes over the forward part of the oil-pan, %$^#$& engineers!!. WHY did I do this? It is a 1999 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup and both the 3.9 V-6 and 5.2/5.9 V-8s have a common problem of the front cover gasket failing and leaking out a copious amount of coolant. The water pump was weeping too so that got replaced also and the crankshaft gasket in the front-cover got a new one forced-in since the cover was off. It took me 2 ENTIRE DAYS and almost killed me physically. The truck has been off the road for 10 months and when I filled it back up with coolant and road-tested it for leaks I honestly was surprised there wasn't a drop coming out of anywhere. ALL the belt-driven accessories had to come off the engine plus the fan-shroud (to get working room) and the fan/clutch assembly and harmonic balancer. I was quoted $1800 for a shop to do it and ON A GREAT DAY I might get $2500 for the truck so I never considered the shop option. I did the job for ~$100 in parts!!!

I literally started to feel sick when I was cleaning-up afterwards as I just hit a "physical wall". It took maybe 3 hours of rest after I showered to feel normal again and mentally after being off the road 10 months I'm still coming to grips with the fact I can drive it again!!! 😊
So why did I finally tackle it? I had a 5-month relationship end this weekend and needed to feel a sense of accomplishment.

 

Paying maintenance for a truck is much cheaper than paying maintenance after a marriage.
Maybe you dodged a bullet here.

 

Excellent point '180'. Thanks for the support!

 

Paying Maintenance for an older car is cheaper than getting a new one.

How old was this woman, WD ?

 

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I just LOVE the perspectives in this forum! Economics, you gotta love em! One final thought (today), an older car without all the nanny-crapola is way easier to fix than the garbage nanny computer controlled overseer high-tech forgetaboutfixing stuff engineers put in todays vehicles coming out of factories nowadays. They should not call it driving (in these new cars), it should be called something other than 'driving', or 'drivers'! Viva la old-tech!


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My roadster had the dreaded low brake pedal issue after sitting all winter. Bled the rears and drove it - back to normal. Went ahead and bled front and rear again with new fluid. My coupe's issue in the past was always in the rear also...

 

I added some seatbelt buckle extenders and also replaced the 3rd LED Brake Light on my Roadster

Amazon

Amazon

 

Well,
I just installed mgp brand caliper covers. I know, some will say they are ricey, but "haters gonna hate". See pix....




Caliper cover installed

 

Joe, that's really weird cuz that's THE MOST EMBARRASSING question you could have possibly asked! I'll just leave it at this. Previously the largest age difference for any woman I'd dated was 12 years, she being younger. This woman was MORE than 12 years younger than me. Like I said. I'll leave it at that. Again.. of ALL the questions!! Weird. HOW DID YOU KNOW??????? 😄

 

Well put!!

 

Looks good but I heard MGP covers are some sort of pricey.

 

Hey, I like those! Sometimes I just can't find the OEM's after a round of all-you-can-eat. Sometimes, even when its very cold and the layers of clothes hinder me...


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Originally Posted by JoeO View Post
Paying Maintenance for an older car is cheaper than getting a new one.

How old was this woman, WD ?


Joe, that's really weird cuz that's THE MOST EMBARRASSING question you could have possibly asked! I'll just leave it at this. Previously the largest age difference for any woman I'd dated was 12 years, she being younger. This woman was MORE than 12 years younger than me. Like I said. I'll leave it at that. Again.. of ALL the questions!! Weird. HOW DID YOU KNOW??????? 😄

Well, WD.....some think trading in or trading up is an art form, but it’s really nothing more than Engineering mixed equally with Economics. Engineering know how calculates failure rates and Economics gives us Net Present Value as opposed to the investment reaching Maturity.

I would say your trade in timing was spot on. Estimating your trade to be about 45, you can be sure of the chassis still being attractive to interested buyers and the break in period has long past to where it doesn’t need 24/7 attention.

Likely, the undercarriage needs some work and the suspension has lost some firmness of ride. Consider the get up and go for weekend nights being less and less, and somehow the unit as a whole has lost some of its firmness with torsional tightness also beginning to fade.

You did well.

 

I gave the Crossfire a bath this morning, applied a coat of carnauba wax, shined the tires, conditioned the leather seats, and gave the interior a good cleaning. Although it has been years since I last conditioned the to top with RaggTopp, water still beaded up quite well. The weather here in KC today was perfect so I then took the car for a cruise!

 

Had bearing noise coming from the front of the engine on my black coupe, pulled the belt and checked the idler and tensioner, the idler felt really rough. Ordered a new pulley and belt and put it back together, still noisy. Got back to it today, pulled the belt to check everything else and found the bearing to be bad in the supercharger pulley. I happened to have two spare oem pulleys so installed one and it’s nice and quiet now. I’ll get a new bearing for the one I took off. When I found the bad idler I figured I was done. Should have checked them all the first time.