I am 42.First ride was a 1974 Chevrolet 1/2 ton 4X4. I had dual exhausts installed. sounded fast but was not.Second was a 1970 Monte Carlo 454 SS. that was a fast car. wish I would have kept it too.Third was a 1977 Chevrolet 3/4 ton 4X4 with all the toys. lift kit, huge tires etc.Fourth was a 1979 T...

I would venture to guess that Buick will be on the chopping block. I mean Pontiac is GM's performance division. Buick is just for the blue hair set. Although my wife had an '03 Rendezvous that we liked.

Another AWD'er in snow country. Welcome. We have an '04 Abyss AWD and it loves our upstate new york winters.

In the 70's, as a teenager I worked at a local mobil gas station. Our mobil rep that visited every so often would tell us that an oil change of mobil1 was good for 50,000 miles as long as you changed the filter and than topped off at what would be normal oil change intervals. IIRC we even had mobil1...

Great work. Looks very cool.One off topic question though. Where did you find your utility bars for the roof rack? I need a set desperatly.

My wife's daily ride.2004 AWD Abyss, monotone. Moon and tunes, power windows, locks, etc. The only mods we have done, other than our 16 year old daughter dinging the front bumper, is an OEM Vibe full front cover /bra. And I just recently picked up a hiddenhitch brand trailer hitch. Had to be the eas...

It's taken me several days to get through all of them. Some really good ones in that bunch. keep them coming.

Thanks for the step by step detail. When I find the time I will do this.I just wish that this forum would let you save threads like this one as a favorite. so it is easier to find next time.

excellent tip. My wife has been complaining that the iTrip i got for her iPod sounds like crap. Might just try this out this weekend.

Up here in snow country, we average somewhere around 200 inches of snow every winter. We went with the AWD for that obvious reason. I'm sorry that I can't give you a review on the Vibe as we just got it in May '04. Our previous vehicle to the Vibe was a 2002 Buick Rendezvous that had a very similar ...

It should be law in all fifty states. I'm in New York and have no problems using a hands free head set. Quite frankly, after getting used to talking via the head set I rarely talk on my phone with out it. Even when I'm not driving. Sadly, some people still chose to ignore the law. IMHO that's why th...

I've got the Ding King too. Picked it up at target for about $20. And yes it does work. I used it on my wife's previous car a 2002 Buick rendezvous CXL. She hit our plastic mailbox and left quite a dent in the rear passenger door and rear quarter. It took me most of an afternoon to remove the dent(s...

..tommorow night and I can't figure out how to keep the auto headlights from coming on. the manual says that if the parking brake is engaged then the daytime running light will not come on. But nothing on how to prevent the auto lights from coming on. Definetly a No-No at the Drive-In. Anybody have ...

I second that. It sure looks like a hard baseball caused the dents or someone deliberatly hit your car with something, like a base ball bat.

Awesome. Ours is abyss mono-tone too. Love the wheels.

...for an extremely unusual sound from the driver's side rear wheel. It only happens when braking. Quite frankly it almost sounds like the shoes in the rear drum are binding up. Am I the first to have this experience?

abyss here too with the same problem. I mentioned it to the dealer and they said to bring it in , but last weekend's Zymol treatment solved my vibe's rough skin problem.

Too Funny!!! I especially can relate to the "taping band of filter wrench with duct tape".

Absolutely not. We have the moon roof option also and have yet to have a leak. On our last GM product, 2002 Buick Rendezvous, the moon roof leaked from day one. Oh, and a little problem that sometimes when you opened the moon roof all the way it refused to close again. Not fun especially when we got...

in addition to to Tom the avatar cat we have;Vegita Wilbur Sadie the old dog

LOL! Welcome from another newbie. Glad you could use the pics. I love all black and abyss was the only color offered where everything matched, including the mirrors.

Zymol is my absolute favorite. The real key to the super glossy finish is easy., After applying the finish you absolutely have to follow up with a spritzer bottle of clean water and a clean white lint free polishing rag. Spritz the finish lightly with water and then buff out. Only do a fender or doo...

Cool. Another fellow Syracusan. You didn't happen to buy your sivler vibe at Bill Rapp did you? If the dealer couldn't find the all black that we wanted, (which they had to go to Buffalo to find the one configured to our specs), silver at Bill Rapp was our next choice!!! See around the hill.

Thanks. As for the change intervals with the synthetic oil, i normally let it go to somewhere between 6-8k before changing both the oil and filter. But just a quick story about change intervals. When I was a college kid I worked for a summer at a local Mobil gas and service station. This was about t...

She's cute. Tom is not our only cat. We also have two other males, wilbur and vegita. And an old dog named sadie.

It is AWD. Being here in upstate ny we have alot of snow to deal with in the winter months. AWD is very important to us. As far as any mods, I have been learning here what others have done and I am still considering my options. In no particular order, dark tint to rear windows and hatch window, pont...

The avatar is Tom the cat. Tom has been around for fourteen years now and pretty much rules the house. We consulted with him and he approved of the Vibe.

I'm a regular on a couple of other forums, getting the pics up was no problem.

Here are some pics of our new '04 vibe. So far so good. Just finished it's first coat of zymol today.

Congrats on the new Vibe. The early turn in program is a great opportunity to get a new car. we are turning in our '02 Rendezvous and picking up an '04 Abyss Vibe tonight. Pics to follow.

I have a factory GM cargo carrier and I am looking for utility bars to mount it to that will fit on the Vibe's roof rack. Any suggestions?

that's how i stumbled in here too. we are picking up an awd mono abyss with moon and tunes, power package and aluminum wheels on wednesday.

We pick up my wife's new Vibe Wednesday after work. She is 46 years old. I'm 42. Trading in her '02 Rendezvous which she absolutely hated. We are both loooking forward to having a smaller car.