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wrench79

All i have is my vibe and my feet. My fiancee has a 96 gtp.

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instead of using the brakes to stop the car, you're using compression from the motor. This puts alot of stress on you're piston rings and over a long period of time you could gradually start to lose power.

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I still have the z rated dunlops that came with my vibe. We just got our first snowfall(only 2"), driving with these tires in snow is not a pleasurable experience. I just ordered a set of dunlop sp winter sport m2's with a set of 16" steel rims. Consumer reports gave them a very good ratin...

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The vibe is equiped with speed sensitive steering. I provides more assist at low speeds and less assist at high speeds.

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it's a long haul to make every day. I don't mind the drive, but that 36k warranty on my vibe isn't gonna last that long. I've got 28k on it already and i've only had it since march.

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what's up fellow resident's of illinois. I'm in rockford, but commute to elgin every day.

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I'm happy for you 1zz owners. But now i feel like a fool for buying a gt. Doesn't this kinda defeat the purpose of even producing the gt.

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I've heard about the spo supercharger. But i'm wondering which vibe model they're offering the upgrades for...vibegt or base or awd vibe.

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The turbo coupe thunderbirds are also pretty quick. I don't know much about the availability of aftermarket parts though. I think a turbo coupe would be cheaper and easier to find than a syclone or grand national. Around here the most i've seen one go for is around 4-5k.

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A friend of mine has a '96 neon with a borla axle back. I doesn't sound like you're typical fart can. It's actually got deep sound to it. The borla is so much cheaper than the trd I'll probobly go with the borla.

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When i first got my vibe the blind spot was a pain in the ***. But since i've put almost 30k miles on it i don't even notice the blind spot anymore. It's just one of those things that you have to get used to.

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armor all works pretty good. But i was sloppy when i waxed my vibe and got wax on alot of the trim pieces. I tried using armor all but it didn't work. This mother's stuff is like a wax, but for plastic and rubber trim. It made the trim on my vibe look better than it did when i drove it off the deale...

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I'm going to the dealership this week to order the parts. I'll post the part #'s as soon as i get them.

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the head unit in the vibe/matrix is a 1.5 din. You cant go any bigger than 1.5, but you can get a single din with a dash kit.

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I also have the 4speaker system. I think i'm gonna order the door mount braket for the 6speaker system and mount my tweeters in that.

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i used the e-brake this past weekend to do a burnout. It was on smooth blacktop, i just rev'd up the motor to 5k and dropped the clutch. I actually shifted to 2nd gear during the burnout, i wish i would've had a camera. Although i dramatically reduced the life of my front tires, you only live once. ...

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The speedo is faster than actual speed. I got a speeding ticket on my way home from work today. I was in 55mph zone and had my cruise control set to 70mph and got a ticket for 68 in a 55. The speeding ticket wasn't accurate to a tenth of a mph, but still that's about 2mph. From what i've read on oth...

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when you say "bore and polish" does that mean "port and polish", i've never seen anybody bore they're intake manifold. Just wondering.

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there is some truth to that review. I've notice on my gt that during a fast launch the 1-2 shift is pretty easy to mess up, but for normal around town driving the tranny shifts pretty smoothly. And who the hell cares if you have to push the clutch down an extra inch to start it, to me that would be ...

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I just call it the vibe-rator

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I went to the dealership, test drove it, and bought it in the same day. I'm already surprised by the results of this poll, i expected to see alot more people still waiting for they're vibes.

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just wondering how many of us already have vibes and who's waiting for vibes.

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I think you can put down a deposit or something. I don't think there are any rebates for the vibe yet cause it's so new, at least that's what my dealer told me.

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I don't really plan on using the roof rack, but I did notice something today. The antenna is pretty much right under the roof rack, how stupid is that.

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the vibe gt does have a toyota engine. I think the head is designed by yamaha.

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the seats are actually pretty comfortable. I just drove my vibe from chicago to winchester, Va and i must admit after about 6 or 7 hundred miles the seats were a little hard on the back. But i'm sure if ya plant your (removed) in anything for that long it'll become uncomfortable. The only extra adju...

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The first time i waxed my vibe i was kinda sloppy and got wax on the body cladding and door handles. I bought mother's back to black and it did an excelent job, the plastic looked better than it did when i picked it up from the dealer.

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I've used black magic tire gel for a couple of years now and have had no problems with spin off, and it lasts for at least a week. I've found that the gel is a lot better than that spray on crap.

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I have the six disc. I'm not the one who burned the cd's so i don't know what software was used.The cd's were memorex and phillips.

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I'm payin 370(almost as much as my car payment) a month for full coverage through american family insurance on my gt. I don't have the greatest driving record and living close to chicago makes my rates higher also. I also pay a little more because i have a lava(red) vibe.

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the oem cd player will play cd-rw's. I've listened to few in my vibe without any problems.

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how much did it cost ya to get that done?

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I would choose a stick shift over an auto, but that's cause i drive my cars pretty hard and put on a lot of miles. Manuals get better gas mileage and are much easier to maintain, you dont have replace filters or get tranny services, and you don't have to buy some fancy torque converter to get good p...

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i drove my vibe off the lot on march12th. And by 15k kick (removed) miles, i mean trouble free, and fun.

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i have over 15k kick a$$ miles on my vibe.

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Rockford, IL. I've seen two vibes, one frosty and one shadow. They weren't gt's though.

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I wouldn't recomend nos. The only good thing about it is that it's the cheapest and easiest horsepower. Unless you plan on going to the drag strip alot it's just not that practical. A supercharger or turbo is much more expensive than nos, but they are safer and the power is always there, and you don...

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Is the body cladding on the monotone vibe smooth, or is it textured like on the gray body cladding?

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The admin. on matrixvibe.net said that they probably won't come out with a supercharger for the 2zz because of it's already high compression. I hope like hell he's wrong, i'd be pretty upset if i got beat by a base vibe at the dragstrip.

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I got my vibe march12th and have 12000 miles on it. I commute to chicago every day(110 mile round trip)and i do alot of driving on the weekends.

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If you have keyless entry it should be the bottom button(should say "hatch"). Just hold it down until the glass pops open.

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Sorry I called you getto d_m_, i wasn't sober when i made that post. You're right most amps do come with speaker level inputs. You do get more distortion using speaker level inputs though. I wouldn't recomend anything from jenson,profile,us accustics, or jbl. But all the others make very good amps. ...

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don't take this personally d_m_ , but that's kind of ghetto. Sure you can do it, but it's not something i would do with a 20k car. And you if you do that then you have to get an amp that accepts high level inputs, which only crappy amps like jenson and audiovox etc. have them. If you really want to ...

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in order to run an amp off of a stock unit you have to get a high to low level converter, since stock units don't have rca outputs. A converter would offset the addition of an amp and good speakers because you loose a lot of sound quality with a converter. So if you want better sound quality you're ...

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It was about 90 today and my a/c worked damn good. It works better if you use the recurculation(the button under the a/c button).

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This car is an absolute blast to drive. It handles like a sports car should, and for such a tall car doesn't have a lot of body roll or lean in corners. At wide open throttle the motor screams and has lots of power from 6k all the way to redline. The six speed could be a little smoother but i like i...

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My sympathies to all those who have been waiting so long for your vibes. I guess i just got lucky, they had the one i wanted on the lot. Saw it march10 and drove it of the lot march12th.

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ya know i never even thought about that until you asked me lopers. I just went out and checked. I loaded and unloaded a cd and it did nothing. I tried using the rds and nothing happened, then armed the security system and it still didn't do ****. So it beats the hell out of me what that light is for...

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which cd player are you guys talkin' about, the in dash 6 disc, or the base single disc player? I have the six disc and haven't had any problems.

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The new blau's do look better than they used to and i'm not sayin that they are pieces of ****. It's just been by experience that there are better units with more features and better displays.Rms isn't always a selling point for some people. When i had my casablanca i didn't even use the speaker out...

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