Add "Peel & Seal" as sound deadener to the door skins. It's easy enough and you will be there anyway.Well after driving today it seems like I'll need new front door speakers. I shouldn't be surprised, I Think i replaced the door speakers for every vehicle I've owned.
trb wrote:Congrats! Looks really nice. Does it have an aftermarket exhaust? That tailpipe does not look stock.
No it was not, it was listed on carguru as well as a few other car sale sitescsxt8058 wrote:Welcome aboard!! That's a nice GT there, it looks familiar for some reason, was it on ebay by chance?
JR
Ah ok, I remember seeing it for sale with other Vibes somewhere, I couldn't recall for sure. It must've been Cargurus where I saw it.MrManager wrote:No it was not, it was listed on carguru as well as a few other car sale sitescsxt8058 wrote:Welcome aboard!! That's a nice GT there, it looks familiar for some reason, was it on ebay by chance?
JR
Well, maybe the prior owner had one and the dealer replaced the muffler with a stock style then. My prior 10 GT had a ricer exhaust and that's what the dealer did, but they didn't have a chrome tip for it. I got a stock chrome tip from Carrie, vibenvy, on here.MrManager wrote:trb wrote:Congrats! Looks really nice. Does it have an aftermarket exhaust? That tailpipe does not look stock.
No I don't believe it is an aftermarket exhaust, it's fairly quiet.
I'm a Jersey guy and we are currently getting even more snow. Driving it back form work though it did very well, I already love this car.tpollauf wrote:Welcome to GenVibe MrManager VERY nice find there and a rare one to boot! Update your profile showing us where you're from. Cureent mileage? How many prior owners? where was it originally sold? Hard to tell BUT with snow you must be somewhere up here with several of us where it is COLD A couple things. As a two Vibe GT family owner (Me .. AK , Dad the red one & 5-speed manual, and son, the blue one 5-speed automatic) you have the BETTER of the two choices Normal shifts will be around 2500-3000, but if really conservative and wanting maximum MPG's then shift around 2000 RPM. By the time you hit 5th gear you could be going as slow as 35mph, from there you can punch it and the 2.4L engine will surprisingly speed you up rather quickly. Out of habit I always find myself feeling for a sixth or seventh gear because you're nowhere near top cruising speed yet and the car just feels like it needs another shift. These are VERY fun to drive and will deliver better MPG's than the automatics.
Onto the door speakers .... yeah, they're junk and someday I'll update mine but at just over 18k miles I really don't want to tear it apart just yet. Juniors Vibe (56 k miles) get's the knife taken to it first, then if/when successful ... mine gets is! When you do get around to updating the speakers, the souynd deadening is a MUST! Especially for our Gt's which have the larger 18" low profile tires. Road noiuse could be very annoying at times. Just crank up the radio
Enought of that. Welcome and enjoy the ride
Will do! though that might have to wait a week, we're getting belted with more snowvibenvy wrote:Welcome to GenVibe! That's a gorgeous Carbon Grey GT you've got there! Thanks for posting a picture right away! That is definitely not the OEM exhaust tip. It has to have at least an aftermarket tip, if not a muffler and / or full catback exhaust. If you post some more pictures of the tip and the underside showing the muffler, we'll be able to help you figure out exactly what it has.
Tim, tpollauf on here, put heated seats in his son's 09 using one of the aftermarket kits. Here is his thread:richz03 wrote:WOW.... I just picked up a Carbon Gray 09 GT with a Auto. Looks like the twin to yours...... I found this post looking for ideas for heated seats too. Anybody here used the aftermarket kits?
Awesome Take lots of pics and let us know how things turn out! You won't regret this upgrade to your Vibe.richz03 wrote:Well, as I predicted I am beginning to look into doing the seats and I think I am going with the Rostra from Summit Racing near me