Still here, never the book of faces.

It's possible the grease in either the lock cylinder, or the steering lock has thickened. Maybe an electric space heater and a long extension cord out to the interior of the car? I had a friend once put his hot air popcorn popper in his car. :D The other possibility is the front wheels are frozen to...

I haven't listened to AM radio in 40-50 years. I had one of those pocket transistor radios from Kmart when I was a tween. I don't think I've ever listened to AM in my car.

Door handle are the same on Vibe/Matrix and Corolla.I parked just beside a Corolla 2003 yesterday and the door handle are exactly the same as my vibe. I was amazed by door handle interchange. Some are painted, and some are black textured (I just sprayed a silver one from the U-Pull, black). Corolla...

Ugh, I was just up inside mine this weekend (headliner removal isn't as difficult as it would seem). Convinced it was sunroof, but no, it was the windshield. Stuck a plastic trim tool under the windshield seal and can feel the crunchiness of rust :shock: the old girl is getting old, I really love he...

It is the syncro on that gear. I bought my 03 used about 7 years ago and it's had a crunchy 3rd gear all this time. I get away with just babying the 2-3 upshift. If you time the shift just right (your road speed matches the the RPM after the shift) the syncro hardly comes into play. You can also try...

zbyers wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 2:33 am Now that's one way to get to the track. What did everyone else think when you arrived? haha

we unloaded real quick, hoping no one would notice...

Company screwed up my brother's van rental the day he was planning to leave for a race.

The Vibe was pressed into transporter duty.

tpollauf wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2019 9:23 am Nice. Hopefully you didn't have very far to travel and not drive at highway speeds. How did that look from a side profile view?

Oh yeah, surface streets only. I've got 2 Home Depot within ~5 miles of my fixer-upper house.

I just put two eight foot 2X4's on the cross rails, use ratchet straps under the side rails.
Depending on how good of shape you are, you won't be lifting too many sheets up there.

Just replaced mine for the same reason. No real difficulties, just a little hassle wrestling it out from under the car. I would think the higher you can get the car the better. Got the tank and new straps from Rockauto. The heat shield between the tank and the exhaust is pretty rusty on my car and m...

cptnsolo77 wrote:No offense guys....I would never buy a GM car for a daily driver. Only reason I bought the Vibe cause I knew it WASNT GM

Same here, knew I was getting a Matrix at a discount.

I drive a 5sp. so I'm not familiar with the layout of the automatics. Is it possible to drive the car without using top gear? I've seen quite a few towing threads here, I think even people towing Vibes with their Vibe

Great color

2. Do GM dealers not get paid for doing recall work, or get paid at a lesser rate? Does it hurt a dealer to have to do a recall repair? They get paid at a lesser rate. Probably not enough to cover all the time they spend on the phone talking about parts availability, let alone the cost of the repai...

You should have an SRS light on as well or somebody's really monkeyed with the system.

Kept forgetting to change mine... eeeeewwwwww!

Meh, they set the front toe. Sounds like you got about $40 worth. In my opinion, the rear isn't out far enough to worry about.

I had a flakey starter (something in the solenoid or Bendix) it would turn and engage/disengage the Bendix during startup and really bang on the engine. I lived with it for a couple of weeks but the hit was sometime so violent I was surprised it wasn't setting a code (I was expecting maybe a misfire...

Stopped at Cabela's in Dundee MI for stocking stuffers.

I unscrew those Torx screws as far as they will go, try to get them to catch on the screw case (pushing in the screw case, pulling the screws with needlenose pliers) and they just won't take. Maybe if I went and got some really powerful magnets... If anyone had done this and knows the trick - let m...

Nice to meet you all. Just picked up an '03 Base off CL, pretty clean car, just getting familiar with it and working out little bugs. Most of my questions have already been answered while lurking around here, thank you all. Hopefully I will be able to repay the favors in the future. Happy Holidays!