What did you do to your Sedan today?
Spring 2020
Today I put my Vossens and summer tires back on the car. Dragging the wheels up from the basement, bringing the duckfeet & snows back down... removing the 15mm spacers I use in the winter, jacking up one corner at a time, ugh. Really, really feeling my age this year.
However (!) driving around afterwards for as long as it took to turn off the winter-long TPMS warning light
, I got to barnstorm a few on- and off-ramps. Oh man, does it feel right having wider, high-performance summer tires keeping you planted flat and fast in the turns. So freaking nice.
And now it's back in the garage. Pandemic.
However (!) driving around afterwards for as long as it took to turn off the winter-long TPMS warning light
, I got to barnstorm a few on- and off-ramps. Oh man, does it feel right having wider, high-performance summer tires keeping you planted flat and fast in the turns. So freaking nice.And now it's back in the garage. Pandemic.
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Today I put my Vossens and summer tires back on the car. Dragging the wheels up from the basement, bringing the duckfeet & snows back down... removing the 15mm spacers I use in the winter, jacking up one corner at a time, ugh. Really, really feeling my age this year.
However (!) driving around afterwards for as long as it took to turn off the winter-long TPMS warning light, I got to barnstorm a few on- and off-ramps. Oh man, does it feel right having wider, high-performance summer tires keeping you planted flat and fast in the turns. So freaking nice.
And now it's back in the garage. Pandemic.
However (!) driving around afterwards for as long as it took to turn off the winter-long TPMS warning light
, I got to barnstorm a few on- and off-ramps. Oh man, does it feel right having wider, high-performance summer tires keeping you planted flat and fast in the turns. So freaking nice.And now it's back in the garage. Pandemic.
Night pics, huh? Looking forward to seeing those.
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Today I put my Vossens and summer tires back on the car. Dragging the wheels up from the basement, bringing the duckfeet & snows back down... removing the 15mm spacers I use in the winter, jacking up one corner at a time, ugh. Really, really feeling my age this year.
However (!) driving around afterwards for as long as it took to turn off the winter-long TPMS warning light, I got to barnstorm a few on- and off-ramps. Oh man, does it feel right having wider, high-performance summer tires keeping you planted flat and fast in the turns. So freaking nice.
And now it's back in the garage. Pandemic.
However (!) driving around afterwards for as long as it took to turn off the winter-long TPMS warning light
, I got to barnstorm a few on- and off-ramps. Oh man, does it feel right having wider, high-performance summer tires keeping you planted flat and fast in the turns. So freaking nice.And now it's back in the garage. Pandemic.
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My first reaction, my gut reaction, is I don't care for any of them. Not out of any sense of purism, it just doesn't look right... and I'm sorry I can't come up with the words to say why.
BUT (!), if you're head set on doing this, and those are the three choices, then I choose top right. The reasoning is the sight-lines. The flat edge of the top of the badge had it's nearest straight line at the top of the grille. And the "line" from the right tip of the "T" to the bottom aligns with the angle of the side of the grille. Sort of.
BUT (!), if you're head set on doing this, and those are the three choices, then I choose top right. The reasoning is the sight-lines. The flat edge of the top of the badge had it's nearest straight line at the top of the grille. And the "line" from the right tip of the "T" to the bottom aligns with the angle of the side of the grille. Sort of.
Trying to find a small piece of black plastic that I can put btwn the mesh and emblem, might make it look more finished. Only one way to find out...
Still beautiful.
I think you and I came on board right around the same time, still digging our cars all these long years later.
Wait... found this in the first page of my build thread, the day after I started it back in 2011.
Wow.
I think you and I came on board right around the same time, still digging our cars all these long years later.
Wait... found this in the first page of my build thread, the day after I started it back in 2011.
Wow.
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Ah, I can almost remember writing that post! Right around that time, I got very focused on car shopping. Wasn’t til April 2013 when I bought one...ended up buying new, because at the time, used/CPO ones were selling for only about $5k less than a new one (paid $36.7k, a pretty big pill to swallow for me at the time). Although I still haven’t done much to it, I look back fondly at a lot of moments with this car (mostly fun road trips
). And as the MT is quickly fading away, I’m getting more certain that the G will remain in the stable for quite a long time...Thanks for the kind words, Rochester. Glad you’re hangin in there too.