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Replying to: fowler3 (Mar 27, 2006 8:34 pm) Also, for the pedals, the primary reason I want to do them is to get a set with a matching dead-pedal to protect the carpet there. It's the one thing I am really disappointed with in the car - the carpet is really crappy. There's several spots with 1 inch deep voids between the carpet and the sheet metal so any weight on it pulls and stretches the carpet (especially in the rear). I'm just waiting for someone to put a foot through it. And they put in no rubber pads in high wear areas like the dead pedal or under the driver's heals. Other than that...I love it. |
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I was not limiting the speedo off comment to just you - it seems like there are many people that are "totally freaked out" (some definition assistance please!) about changing the speedo by 1-2 MPH. I have seen posts where people spend hundreds of $ to have the speedo corrected - because they change tires. When in reality many speedometers are off the day you drive your new car off the lot. I plan on checking mine with my hand held GPS system I use in my boat - but can never seem to remember to grab it before I head out on the freeway. I don't much care if its off a few MPH at 30 - but if my speedometer says 78 MPH (which is were I set the cruise while on the freeway) and I am really going 80 that could be a ticket - most LEO's will let you slide at 79 - but will nail you are 80. fowler3 - I started at 32 PSI then went up to 35 for a few days - but am now back down at 32. When tires are new they have those little nubby pieces of rubber sticking up from the tread - after a few hundred miles at 35 PSI the center nubbies (is this a word - I need a dictionary!) on the rear wheel were gone - but the ones on the outside of the tread were not wearing - I took this to mean I was a little over inflated. The nubby things on the front tire were all gone after only a few hundred miles. I know with a pick up truck it is normal to run higher PSI in the front (than the rear) - while running empty - I will run 35 PSI in the front and 30 in the rear - but not sure if this is a good idea in a front wheel drive car. Maybe 35 in the front 32 in the rear - would be about right. Anyone ever try this?
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Replying to: fowler3 (Mar 27, 2006 8:22 pm) Sandstorm |
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Replying to: z71bill (Mar 28, 2006 11:14 am) As to the rear inner nubbles wearing out faster than the outer, have you ever noticed how the rear end tires squat? I don't recall the correct terminology on the angle of the rear tires, but it certainly would leed one to believe that if left alone, the inner tires would wear quicker than the outer regardless of the pressure. Obviously, to counter that tire wear chassis design/setup is to rotate tires every 8K miles or so. Every time I see the Dodge Caliber, it reminds me of you. Here you are trying to get decent air quality in your vehicle for those balmy days and there is Dodge installing a mini-fridge near the glove compartment for drinks and what not. You know, life just isn't fair sometimes. By the way, does anyone know how they did that? In other words, does the mini-fridge work off the a/c compressor? And does the a/c need to be on for the fridge to be cold?
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| I am an admitted maintenance nut - I made the mistake of buying a digital tire gauge - so now if one tire reads 31.5 and the others are 32 I get the air tank out and put in 1/2 pound. Its crazy - and there is no known cure! | |
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"Sandstorm, Mazda should be cheaper over the next five years. Toyota service is higher on just about everything the RAV-4, compared to the Hatchback, will require. That's one of the reasons I changed from Honda to Mazda and I don't regret it at all. Mazdas are every bit as reliable as their competitors." -fowler3 Not sure I follow the logic, Fowler. Toyota service to maintain a small SUV is more expensive then Mazda service to maintain a small wagon. Therefore, you switched from owning Honda's to owning a Mazda's. Also, which competitors of the Mazda3 have worse reliabilty ratings. Certainly Honda and Toyota rate higher reliabilty at JD Powers and Consumer Report? -LT
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Replying to: ownersmanual (Jun 03, 2003 10:38 am) |
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| Get the job done. And there are some very nice fax machines out there. I know mine doubles as a home computer, game console, dvd player, weather forecaster etc. | |
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"Mine squeal as well in damp conditions, and occasionally I get a clunk when I start backing out in the cold." -dride "Honda's and Toyota's are fine, if you enjoy riding in fax machines. (hint hint, they are soul-less and boring.) ZOOM ZOOM!" -dride To tell you the truth, I would rather drive a well built and engineered fax machine. Maybe its just me, I could not enjoy ZOOMING ZOOMING around in a squealing clunker. -LT
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Replying to: ownersmanual (Apr 03, 2006 6:55 pm) Now, Toyota plans on doing something about it. Still don't know what that entails. Quite honestly, I don't think they can change much; maybe just take the sting out of the open wound - but the wound remains. There's a correlation between mfg. at capacity and defects/recalls. So while Toyota is increasing their market share, they continue bumping up against their own capacity (until expansion). Also, where the Japanese mfg. would take an already existing technology and improve on it (e.g. minimum - remove defects), now, they are pioneering their own (e.g. hybrids) and finding it's not so easy to get it right the first time. Finally, Toyota does not take too many great risks (just toddler steps). That is why their vehicles are passionless. Great reliability but ho-hum everything else. |
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