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Good to hear you went back to the doc and got some good meds, and that you can bather ok now. Reminds me of a lung society commercial "When you can;t breathe, nothing else matters" very true. Hope the recovery is quick!

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Well, you know what you meant, but maybe what you wrote was more readily interpreted differently. Just like when you tell me to "slow down before someone gets hurt." If I was a sensitive person in a vulnerable mood, I'd take that as some kind of threat. I'm not, and didn't, but you see wha...

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Maybe they put a base vibe supercharger on a GT, and it's so cheap because they know the engine won't survive.

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quote:Also, my 22nd birthday was last Saturday (oct 4th) There really isn't anything special about this one (or the next 3 either)10/4, that means that you're OK Next year, you'll be 23 which is a prime number. After that you won't be prime again until 29.

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quote:Buy one of those 22cal rubber bullet guns and have a field day. Damn shame to have alot of broken glass in a parking lot with neon colors. Pimp mobile with drug money. I guess since it was drug money he could not buy a house with it.That's prety harsh. Are you really advocating use of violence...

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I went to Lowe's (one of a chain of big hardware stores) and bought my supplies, one foot of 14 ga. wire for $0.08 US and one pack of terminal lugs for $1.78 US. $1.96 after tax. The terminal lugs were a pack of five mating pairs of spade type. I only needed two of the male terminals, and about 2 in...

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I guess if you have a clunker honda, you can do cheap things to it and some one will pay big bucks for it.Whoever sold it had a good sense of humor. I like the statement:"In the summer the doors can be removed in the back instantly transforming this car into a civic with no rear doors. "

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In this circuit, the relay is used to to enable the power outlet when the ignition is on, and to disconnect power from it when the ignition is off. The relay does not provide any overlaod protection. The power outlet circuit is protected by the 15A P/Point fuse (at least that's what the wiring diagr...

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The circuit is still protected by a fuse, which is on the battery side of the relay, so I don't think it would be a fire hazard. If you got a normally closed relay, then starting the car would kill power to the power outlet. What you need is a broken relay that is closed all the time. P-jumper.jpg

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That's a lot of Vibes. All of them 04's? Don't see any Fusion ones. I like the Vibe colors, but seeing that many together really shows that in a group, the colors are not very flashy, only the lava ones stand out.

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The three smaller relays are all the same type, and look like this: The way that the circuit works, when 12 V is put across the two silver colored terminals, then the relay closes and the two copper colored terminals are connected. In the power outlet circuit, the relay is closed when the key is tur...

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After removing the three 10mm screws, the JBIPR is still sort of held in place by a plastic bump that also plugs into a hole in the silver pipe, but the JPIBR can be freed by hassling it loose, working it back and forth while pushing up near the pipe. When it is freed, it can be reoriented for easie...

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[edit 11/6/05]I am told this mod has been panned over on MO, so if you are a MO member, then you should know better than modifying your car yourself, and should only ever pay licensed professionals to do anything to your car, and if you try this mod yourself you will end up killing yourself and thou...

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Maybe the clinic can give you some kind of inhaler. A lot of asthma folks use albuterol, which is really effective but a prescription. There's also the primatene inhalers you can buy over the counter, and they work pretty well, but the stuff in them is pretty much adrenealine, so it can drive up you...

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If it were me, I'd either take the key out of the ignition, or use a wood or C clamp on the door jamb to keep the door open switch pushed in. If I needed to have a semipermanent way to disable it, I'd probably wire a switch to disable the door open switch.I locked my keys in the car once, so I need ...

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Over the counter meds with guaifenesin (sp?) might help, it's an "expectorant" helps loosen up stuff, so at least the cough might be productive. Dextromethorphan hydrobromide (sp?) is a cough supressant, probably won't help wahtever is causing the cough, but might be worth it if the cough ...

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Sounds like a great price to me.If you do get it, probably worth doing all of the scheduled maintenance that it might have missed as soon as you get it. If the previous owner couldn't afford payments, maybe they couldn't afford maintenance either. If they did get a dealer to do maintenance, if you p...

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Well, either my book or I was confused last night. Looked at the car, and the sender is not on the cylinder head , but is in the oil filter adapter, just above the oil filter, sticking out towards the front of the car, which makes it really easy to see and work on. Did a quick test, ignition on, but...

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quote:I actually live in Colorado and I just bought my Vibe about a month ago and its previous owner was Budget Rental car...I'm loving my Vibe, had about 18,400 miles on it and was kept in good condition.What kind of deal did you get from Budget? Also since your from Boulder, can you help ragingfis...

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snowman and VibeR8Lava2Tone, welcome to genvibe!

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I bought the service manual. I'd post a pic but there's that whole copyright thing. If I get a chance tomorrow when it's hopefully not so dark, I'll try to take a pic of the engineOn the vibe, since there's only the idiot light for oil pressure, the pressure sender is a switch, provides a ground to ...

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From the book, it looks like it's screwed in to the side of the engine, sort of under the back right corner of the engine cover, on the driver's side of the engine (not the fan or firewall side, but sticking out the transmission side)Are you having oil pressure problems?

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I'd haven't had that problem, and sure hope it's not normal. I agree - take it to the dealer, that's what warranties are for.if you get it fixed, please let us know what the problem was and how they fixed it.

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There's just something about the car that makes it fun. I haven't had paint problems, if I did my answer might be different.

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the Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of complications from repeated pokes in the belly and a chronic yeast infection. He was 71.Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry Jack, the California Raisins, B...

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Check out http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=4486

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Check out http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=4486

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If you run blue lights, some cop will probably challenge you. You could probably attract cops by installing flashing blue and red lights.

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quote: how do I further compress the size of these pics?? I don't want to continue eating up bandwidth..I sometimes use a piece of freeware called irfanview. To reduce the file size, you can adjust the compression amount, and often a minor increase in compression doesn't really have a noticeable eff...

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All things are possible, but the lens over the gauges is red plastic, so blue light will have a harder time getting through. Also, I think that it may a real hassle to change the instrument lights. Saw a thread somewhere someone had taken apart the cluster and found that the bulbs were not necessari...

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2 months later .....So, gonna be the million vibe march on DC, or autumn vibe festival in the shenandoah, or maybe something completely different?

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Thanks, but I was kind of kidding. There's a bunch of sources of used and replacement parts for those things, you can pretty much build one from scratch if you've got enough cash. I have to decide if I want to restore it to completely new show condition, or fix it up enought to drive it and have fun...

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I thought about getting one of those rear glass wipers, the fancy electrical kind that you don't have to lean out of the car to operate manually, but couldn't afford whatever option package they come with. So I just have my kid do it.

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Not really, but let me know if you've got a pair of extra floor pans.

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Funny picture Too bad the car's in park

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quote:PS - new user - fun site - thankscongrats - I agree - welcome to genvibe

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I advise against rain-Xing the rear (hatch) window. That window collects mist and spray, and when you rain-X it, it causes that stuff to bead up, but it doesn't flow off the way it does on the front windshield, it just completely obscures vision. The first time I drove in the rain after rain-Xing th...

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That convertible matrix looks awful. Reminds me of that VW thing.Here's a real convertible, my newest project.

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definitely yes

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I haven;t done it in my Vibe yet, but it is a good idea to do it periodically. Didn't check it on my last car, and I can testify that it really sucks to try to replace a flat tire with a flat spare.At least I still have a couple months of 1800ROADSID left.

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I don't think that what I am getting is pop up advertising, but almost every page I load in Netscape gives me a error message about some host could not be found, and the embedded ad at the top of the page does not load. No real problem, I'm ok with not getting ads becuase the pages load faster, but ...

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quote:No problem. Hopefully you can find a brand that makes a difference. I used Mobil when I lived in Ohio, but now I use Sinclair.I remember Sinclair, but haven't seen one since a visit to oklahoma city about 12 years ago. Do they still sell the inflatable dinosaurs?

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Lately I have been getting a bunch of pop ups saying that whatever hostname the ads are trying to load from can't be resolved. Figured it was just my lame ISP. Haven't had any login errors

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quote: is there anyone out there who could draw me up a word Which word?quote:why would i want "AtWork" tattooed on my body? I guess it depends on where you plan to put it. AtWork across the forehead would be a lot better than "out to lunch"

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Well, if all M&T have the hiss problem, either it is so minor or I've wasted my hearing so much that I can't hear it, and so it is not a problem for me.As for Delco working on a fix, that's great for the 2006 Vibe owners. Since I have no confidence that GM would ever freely fix it for current Vi...

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quote: I looked like the way to go until another member attached a picture of a 7 year old vehicle that had the 3M product applied - all the plastic sheets turned slightly yellow / orange - it looked pretty bad.... I dunno - since my car on order is fusion orange, maybe the rusting paint chips will ...

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Good luck being patient. Must be tough. Also, sure you know, but had to say anyway, the 8k redline is for GT, base is lower

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netz_auto had this 70 KB pic in thread http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=5810: Having no Vibe badge seems to confuse people. Putting Voltz on there would send them over the edge. I like the Voltz badge, (and I like the name voltz a lot better than "vibe") but I'll stay debadged. Woul...

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I haven't had any reddish stuff on my tires, but then again I've just got the steelies and don't polish my tires. However, on other cars, I have gotten reddish stuff on the wheels from brake pad dust.

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