New HHR Owners - Give Us Your Report

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• dmathews3 (May 31, 2008 1:51 pm)
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Replying to: rdelucchi (May 31, 2008 1:17 pm)

I have a 07 Caddy STS and just got a new HHR with the 2LT and all the toys including Leather and find myself telling the wife to take the STS to work so I can use the HHR. A $24K car and a $53K car and I drive the cheap one.
Only thing I don't care for is the instrument cluster as the blue background behind the numbers is hard to read sometimes so I'm having this put in next week.
http://tinyurl.com/5zhvn6
The company that makes these is only 60 miles from me so I emailed them and they will sell it to me and install for $150 total. Can't go wrong and should be a whole lot easier to read with my sun glasses on.

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Replying to: poncho167 (May 22, 2008 5:36 pm)

hi all...my Colorado truck broke down for the 6th time for electrical causes and at the dealer (I was 350 miles from home) I saw this silver HHR and traded for it. I loved driving it on the drive back home during the daylight hours and was delighted I'd made the trade..also...I love that is is styled after the 1950 (year I was born) Suburban...However...
 
Last night I had the first occasion to drive it at night...and OMG(dess)...on low beams I couldn't even see 100 feet ahead of me...it's like the upper windshield is blacked out! With highbeams it's some better...but heading down an incline...I can't even see the top of the next hill! Once back in "town" (I'm in the far northern reaches of Wisconsin)...it was much better with the lighting from streetlights and what not...but out on the wooded roads it was horrid! I drove with the lever pulled towards me in "flash" mode the whole way home (except when there was oncoming traffic of course) and that was barely passable. I'm used to watching the highway several hundred feet ahead of me.
 
Does anyone else find this disconcerting and are there different settings for the headlights in town and in rural surroundings???
 
If anyone has a suggestion...let me know PLEASE..I dread my drive home from work on Monday....lynnann

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• poncho167 (Jul 06, 2008 5:20 am)
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• laco (Jul 06, 2008 6:10 am)

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Replying to: lynnann50 (Jul 05, 2008 9:55 am)

Headlamps received a "Good" rating from Consumer Reports. You should try parking in front of a wall and turn on your headlamps and see where the point of aim is.
 
What I suspect is happening, however, is that you are used to the "aim point" on a raised pickup truck which is much higher than on a passenger vehicle.
 
While this may make for some problems when you drive, imagine how many passenger car drivers you were blinding all those years.
 
Now you get to use your high beams when there isn't any oncoming traffic - that's what we non-truck, non-SUV drivers have been doing for years.

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