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Going to find out how good the new all season ones I put on last month will do this winter. Our Vibe had some pretty bald tires in Nov 06 when we bought it, ended up with some very bad tires for it, hopefully these will be better.

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I think with those the idea is pressure and heat to get some wax on the car, then the cold to run the excess off and solidify the wax on.Either way I know it's doing a crappy job but I live in an apt complex so *shrug*

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Quote, originally posted by lovemyraffe Â»I rarely turn my headlights on manually. I did yesterday. It was raining but it was not dark enough for the lights to turn on automatically. In Utah, in a stormy conditions, you have to turn your lights on, not just headlights, but taillights too. I was driv...

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Haven't gotten that card yet. Suspect I may need to extend the antenna cable a bit to reach the jack on the card (the standard airport card was a pcmcia card shorter than the standard ones, it didn't need the built in antennas which would normally stick out the side).Well the main reason for the lap...

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I know the beancounters love the synergistic profit enhancing paradigms that common platform engineering and multiple branding schemes can utilize...but they need to separate the brands and make them unique.So sure, GMC does trucks. Pontiac does sporty all the way up to sports car, Chevy does standa...

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We'll be getting more Corolla/Matrix parts for our Vibes?Ugh. I actually like the looks of most of the Pontiac line versus the Chevy counterparts. Saturn too. Would probably buy a Ford before a Chevy.But going to keep Buick? GMC?

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It was a standard optical drive--just need to wiggle it a bit in place I think. The HD was a notebook model, fit into place in the bracket above optical drive. So they don't affect each other.Ram...sigh. I know better It was 512MB PC133, low density (supposedly--but only 8 chips).

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Quote, originally posted by NibCrom Â»The install was a complete success. Thanks for your help guys/gals. Schrute bucks for everyone.Mine was an epic debacle. New ram is BAD according to the Apple diagnostic cd, new dvd drive seems to be not quite vertically aligned right so it catches and doesn't a...

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my new (to me) imac G4 is currently tore apart on my desk (this is the wifey's desk) while I upgrade the ram, hard drive and optical drive, then slap a 10.4 install on it.Have a not apple pcmcia wireless card coming for it, only thing I might need to do is splice the antenna cord a little bit longer...

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I think TNG was probably my favorite, Voyager was ok-ish. Never got a chance to see much of Enterprise, DS9 was bOOOOORing, and TOS is definitely a bit cheesy.

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that was from episode 200 in the last season. Also had Wizard of Oz, puppet SG-1, Star Trek, Farscape spoofs and Wormhole X-Treme the BDM.

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Quote, originally posted by ajflan Â»I am personally excited about the new Star Trek. And this movie doesn't look bad either. It might help me prepare for the end! lolYou're young aren't you? Of course the Dawson Crick Smallvile version of ST would appeal to you The ST trailer reminded me of this: y...

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Cool. Has Chiwetel Ejiofor in it. (The Operative in Serenity). Been waiting to see him in more.Maybe they've seen the previews for the new Star Trek movie and figure the end can't be far behind when something that awful is getting released.

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I believe there are two different sizes at random though, I haven't gotten around to putting mine on. The ones the other owner used were a different size...it's come up in threads on here before.

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2003 had ~80K in Nov 06 when we bought it.Up to ~110K now. Miles are coming quicker now though, I've been using it for work and I'm all over for that.

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If that's all they told you, they are hiding something else. My neighbor at the old apts that had the Vibe that inspired me into looking into one had a salvage title on his. But it was his cousin or something who worked at the salvage place to steer him towards it.And definitely not for $8500. Maybe...

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Looks like they just put the guts of a fob in their housing and include the key blank in there. Then you just program the new fob the same way as any other. Go on and be a lab rat for the rest of us.

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by inside, inside his warm house while his locked and running Vibe warms up. I assume that anyway....

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Quote, originally posted by Jeremy96gase Â»If I needed a new economical car, the Astra would be right there at the top of my test drive list. And that's a great price for a very good car. http://www.autoblog.com/2008/0...astra/ And then at the end, the usual American wish for ridiculousness, oh whil...

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I think the key in door only works the 2nd time you twist it, or maybe in the other direction? I have the keyhole inserts so I haven't used the keyholes in a long time.Oh yeah,there's a secret compartment behind the rear seats! hahhaa...had this car since Nov 06 and never found it!

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Hmm. Never noticed it there, sounds like about the last place I would put anything for convenience anyway. Snow scraper goes on the floor passenger side, if I have a passenger it goes rear floor passenger side.Is it big enough for jumper cables?

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Wait...where? All I have is the spare tire underneath the cargo mat, and there are the 2 access holes for the rear lights on either side?edit: and I mean compartment behind rear seats? whhhhahaaat?

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they lost my order from feb. had to try again over the summer, took a couple more months.

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Didn't the GTs come with a supercharger stock?

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haha.I will probably start reading it as "eff the world" now!

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Does the interior button unlock it?

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Also good posture is important when driving, I have a tendency to kind of pivot onto the right cheek, so I am angled towards the front left of the car, I usually have that left knee up a bit.Also take your wallet out of your back pocket if you keep it there.Maybe a throw a small pillow or folded up ...

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Pffff.Purple tree for me!

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and the last shot, piece of white paper for comparison

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and another view

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Just pulled mine out and replaced. I think win the "dirtiest cabin filter" award. 110K miles on 03.

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Mental note: do not buy Neptune Vibe in Fayetteville.The V6 might ease the gas mileage adjustment you'll have to make...if you do mostly highway you probably won't suffer too much. You said you're having a blast though, which probably doesn't match "drive like a grandma and hypermile".

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neptune goodalso, I really hadn't paid much attention to Vibes before ours, our neighbor had one and when our car got totalled I asked him how he liked it.

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Get the, err, new kind of blades. just one single curved piece, no little arms or anything, I like them a LOT more than even the winter blades.And actually, on our Vibe with the winter blades we got they seemed to catch the wind and just suck (removed) above about 65mph on the highway.

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Exit highway yesterday morning in Madison Heights behind a Salsa GT w/Canadian plates, flicked my fogs on/off at the light. Think, "hmm Canadian." Then watched as it pulled into one of Canada's US embassies--Tim Horton's.Do they put a little something *special* in their coffee?!

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At home it wasn't until 1987-88 or so. Parents went all fancy and got a Mac SE, 40MB (!!) HD, dual internal Superdrives, and HP DeskWriter (300 dpi and you had to use special inkjet crinkly paper ). We picked up a 1200 baud modem too, I would *surf* to the sports listings on Compuserve. Lots of shar...

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Any snow yet? <---I have the say yah to da UP bumper sticker on my vibe down here-lived on the other side for several years.

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Actually thats one of the few angles I like of the new one.

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Someone in an 03/04 Neptune GT stopped by at Providence Park yesterday. Genvibe sticker too.I was lurking in the back rows of the lot. They banish construction types away from the doors.

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It seems all the Detroit area Genvibers are over on the north side...I'm in the west. Plenty of Vibes out and about this summer, but almost all of them have some middle age mom or the grandparents in them who probably don't even know the name of their car.I stopped waving at other Vibes halfway thru...

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The GIMP for Windows works good under XP. I would assume it's fine under Vista. The XP Image Resize Powertoy is perfect for resizing pics for the web also, but again I don't know if it works under Vista.links:http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/http://www.microsoft.com/windo....mspxAlso, Photobucket let...

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I thought about it later, but a galvanized self tapper should remove the need to put a bolt on the inside (which I did also) and squirting something in the hole to prevent rust is probably a good idea.

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And to get the rear hatch plastic off on mine (03), it involved lots of prying and poking at the round clippy pieces.

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Good luck. Could try using a screw removal kit to drill in, and then back out with the reverse bit.I had the same problem. Dealer used some real cheap soft metal screws that rusted real quick and were on nice and tight. First I removed most of the metal in a nice circular manner with my first screw ...

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are you kidding?people never survive these.the Vibe is proving itself a fairly safe little vehicle--nearly every example we see of a mangled Vibe involves the driver surviving. reassuring when I put my wife in it every day.

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Is it anything like I describe in this thread or the other threads linked from in it?http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=28062

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gah--the Matrix looks more Vibe-y than the Vibe does now!Still has the rear plate in the center of rear hatch, front end is...edgier than the Vibes now. Along the bottom it almost has some pseudo-monotone-cladding look going on. And the wraparound rear window is pretty nice.

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My first memories are of moving to HI when I was a kid (USMC family). Then of growing up in San Diego.We just got 4-5" of snow yesterday morning here in MI. Nice work though!

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We got picked up in an Isuzu and driven away...he even washed it first too

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