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Replying to: elias (May 23, 2008 12:12 pm)
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Replying to: roadrunner70 (Jun 22, 2008 4:57 pm) i've got new NIXON tires on it. they flatspot pretty bad but are excellent once smoothed out. how could the G8 possibly handle better than GTO? it's so similar, & bigger & cushier ? !
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Replying to: elias (Jun 23, 2008 7:52 am)
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Replying to: hippe (Jun 27, 2008 10:24 am)  There will be "NO NEW FIREBIRD OR GTO".......highperformancepontiac july2008 There soon will "NO GENERAL MOTORS"........daily newspapers /no "NEW"oildrilling allowed thanks to our DEMS. Be seeing the GTOs on "BARRETT JACKSON" auctions....10-15 years I will be in my GTO-motorized wheel- chair powered by a "wind-sail" |
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to get me out of my GTO. I'd been going to my dealer to get the paperwork going to buy my 04 at lease end but they kept giving me the keys to a G8 to drive. I knew they wanted to sell me a new car and I figure I should at least drive the car. After one of the test drives I found out they had an flawless 06 GTO with 2100 miles on the lot. I had to check it out. The only problem is the car pulls a little to the right. I figure this can be corrected with an alignment. I bought the car last week but then they botched the alignment. I'm taking it back in this week when I return my 04. I hate to give it up but I just couldn't pass up a clean, low milage car still under warranty. And for two weeks I've owned two GTOs, something that I've always wanted. By the way, the G8 is a nice car but it comes in second to the GTO in every category as far as I am concerned.
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Replying to: hippe (Aug 30, 2008 1:30 pm) The alignment is apparently nontrivial according to local dealer who charged $250 for my 05, and had to redo it after delivering it out of spec after the first try - the $250 later reimbursed in full by Pontiac without me asking. I bet the factory would cover your 06 alignment, even if it had way more than 12k miles - and with less than 12k miles, no doubt! Apparently alignments requires special parts via outrigger canoe from Australia. "Consumable bolts" or something like that. These cars do eat tires. Thankfully I've discovered the good value of Korean tires lately. I get 25k per set and they are quite bad after 25k.  enjoy your 06 goat as well as your 'beater' goat !
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Replying to: elias (Aug 31, 2008 1:26 pm) One other thing, I decided to keep my 04. It's in perfect shape and I don't like the idea of them charging me for minor little cosmetic things. I don't know if anyone here has had the problem but a couple of inches of stitching had come apart on the drivers seat up on the left shoulder. They said it wouldn't cost much but they won't tell me how much. Anyway, what the hell. I'll just hang on to it for now.
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Replying to: 1934auburn (Feb 11, 2003 12:24 pm)
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Replying to: cappgoat (Oct 10, 2008 9:57 am) |
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Replying to: hippe (Sep 06, 2008 5:28 pm) with my 05 (17s) a couple times i thought there were front-end or alignment issues, but really it was just tires. at around 20k and again around 45k/50k. New tires made all the difference - no more 'wandering' feeling from the right front, especially on very crowned roads. (rotating the old tires hadn't helped - one time I rotated left to right in order to avoid the inner-tire-wear - requires remounting tires - didn't help with the tire-related handling issues). Pulling/drifting to the right sounds to me like expected behavior on a crowned road, especially with semi-worn or very-worn tires . there are a variety of good value/performance tires available for the 17" size, btw! way earlier on the thread i posted alignment specs/#s for my 05. it could be cool if you would post your recent alignment #s, before & after & spec. (Pontiac had revised the specs over the original/factory/negative-camber specs.) ps - my squirrel-grey GTO still gets enthusiastic raves from pedestrians and other drivers about 99 44/100% of the times I drive it, so there are plenty of folks out there who appreciate these goat-naros along with the h8rs out there too!) |
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