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So it doesn't say anywhere on the bulbs the temperature. Here's the kit: http://www.asianproducts.com/p...2.htm Also, you can see a picture of them before I replaced them here: http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=32342. It's daylight, but I'm afraid that's all I can do for you.I'd sell them for ...

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I have a pair of HIDs I took out of my vibe (the previous owner had installed them). I can't recall the color, but at least white (~6000K) if not hotter. The reason I took them out was because they only provided low beams and I live in a relatively dark area with lots of wild-life, so high beams are...

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Quote, originally posted by Dragonsm Â»I have a one of those brinkmann charcoal smokers, and though I agree that charcoal gives you the best smoke flavoring, trying to smoke something for 6-8 hours turned into a constant babysitting job, plus trying to keep it hot enough to smoke in the winter time ...

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Quote, originally posted by Sublimewind Â»My dad built his own long ago, it was much larger and more elaborate, but the same concept, with the very same problem... He now uses a Propane powered smoker and won't ever look back... His new one was bought, not built,(now he's thinking about building a l...

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Quote, originally posted by engineertwin2 Â»It may work better if you mount the hot plate off center, such that the cord and the control knob are mounted outside of the can. Also, you can use heat shields. Further more, if you absolutely love this design, it may be time to replace the hot plate with...

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Quote, originally posted by Whelan Â»Don't forget a water box and or some small air vents to allow it to breathe.Also hopefully you are using new garbage cans instead of some used one off the street.Yep, there are two racks inside, the lower one for liquid to keep it from drying out. Drilled a coupl...

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Quote, originally posted by kunkstyle Â»Sounds like a fire waiting to happen. If it lasted you this long, why not make a new one every few years. Well, the fire is sort of the point . . . more of a smolder than a fire I suppose. The idea is to make it so that the smoldering doesn't cause any damage ...

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I think this thread is about as "Off Topic" as you can get . . . A couple of years ago, a couple of grad school friends and I made a smoker out of a metal garbage can (the device you smoke meat with, not the coworker who hangs out on the loading dock, in case you are confused). The basic i...

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Mine has tinted tails (Shadow). You can see a picture or two from the previous owner here (down near the bottom): http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2357553 I've toyed with the idea of scraping off the tint (it's just a sticker tint, not painted). I think a little color to contrast with the gray of the p...

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I've switched to Verizon last summer when I got married (was on my parents' ATT plan before). I haven't had any trouble with them other than not particularly caring for the condescending attitude of the guy at the local store. I did have to call them and cancel some parts of the plan that I didn't w...

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My awd '04 vibe did great in the snow with studded snow tires (in VT & NH) and it was a pretty rough winter in terms of driving conditions. One of my coworkers has a fwd vibe and said it was a little shifty in the snow and wouldn't put anything less than studded snow tires on it in the winter.

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Quote, originally posted by ColonelPanic Â»Busted! More info than you'd ever need on the subject. lol!http://www.fuelsaving.info/ethos.htmGood. Someone sent me that a couple weeks ago and I hadn't been able to find any good website refuting the idea. I settled for running the math and seeing that it...

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When I started driving I shared a nice 1981 v8 plymouth with my older brother (ours was all white): As a senior prank, we toyed with the idea of putting a friend's mg midget in the back (we were pretty sure it would fit if we took out all but the front seats), but by my senior year, ye olde plymouth...

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Quote, originally posted by waveresponder Â» Yeah, that was my vibe. I think they were the weld on variety. The previous owner did that to it and there is another pic online:http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2357553 He put the regular hinges back on before he sold it. I think it would be fun to have lam...

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I think the awd vibe does really well in the snow. I've got studded snow tires on mine and it's done really well this winter (which set some local records for snowfall). I can't say that I ever drove it in more than an inch or two of snow, but I do have a long commute (about 50 miles each way) and t...

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So I pulled out the HID lights and put stock ones back in since you need high beams around here to avoid close encounters of the wildlife kind (skunks, deer, moose, etc.). I'll sell those on here when I get enough posts to do so. I also replaced the aftermarket foglights with stock ones from the jun...

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Quote, originally posted by northvibe Â»If this is the yellow one..it is one when your headlights are on.Just for the record, I think this is a very stupid light. It would be easier just to have the gages light up when the headlights are on like most cars do. Until I stumbled across this thread, I t...

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Yeah, there's a bunch of other ones on there by that same group (improv everywhere). They do a similar thing in home depot where they shop in slow motion for 5 minutes, shop regularly for 5 minutes, then freeze for 5 minutes. They also sent about 80 people in blue polo shirts and khakis into a best ...

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Quote, originally posted by lucho Â»i wish they make those smoke black tailight covers, that would look legit.The kid who owned my vibe before me put on smoked taillight covers ... sort of. I think he just put window tint or something similar over the regular ones since the smoked part is cracked in...

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Quote, originally posted by LuckyRugger Â»I'm looking at purchasing an used vibe and was hoping to get some input. I'm looking at getting a fwd, 5-speed, base. I live in mid-michigan and I'll mainly be using it to drive back and forth to work and I live approx 6 miles from work. Below are a few ques...

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Quote, originally posted by starmatt Â»4. This also might be related to the above: the cigarette lighter in the center console doesn't work. He had hard wired a 4 plug cigarette lighter directly to the wiring behind the in dash lighter plug, but I pulled that out when I redid the stereo wiring. It l...

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Quote, originally posted by kurgurvibe Â»I'm pretty sure i've seen this car on Cardomain http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2357553That's the one. So if you were asking for pics with the lambo doors, there you go. It's interesting to see how the positioning of things under the hood have changed. I'm glad...

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Digital SLR:Minolta Maxxum 7Dlenses covering 18mm-300mm2x teleconverter to fit older manual minolta lenses2 compact flash cards (1 & 2 gb)Old School SLR:Minolta x700lenses covering 28mm - 230mm (more with 2x or 3x teleconverter)homemade macro adapters (teleconverters without the optics)autowinde...

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Quote, originally posted by hskater26 Â»welcome! you should come to the meet were having around boston the end of this month.....i use to go up to burlington all the timeQuote, originally posted by joholste Â»and then come to the meet in July down in Gatlinburg.I think I will probably have to pass o...

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Quote, originally posted by MRCN RCE Â»damn that kid needs to be slapped for that kind of wiring job . you'll be like a walking vibe wiring diagram after you finish cleaning up his mess Speaking of wiring diagrams, anyone care to point me in the direction of figuring out where he screwed up the seco...

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Quote, originally posted by MRCN RCE Â»welcome to the family. sorry about your experience, but like North said, it sounds like you'll have most of the problems fixed over some weekends.Thanks to all who said welcome. For all the fist shaking at the other Matt (kinda like that bitter old man yelling ...

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Quote, originally posted by northvibe Â»well the good news is so far its mechanically sound. now those other annoyances should be weekend car repairs to patch them. good luck and post pics of the bad jobs he did if you get a chance.Yeah, the only other problem was that there was a leak in the exhaus...

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My name's Matt and I bought a used 2004 vibe awd this past summer from a sketchy kid also named Matt. I define what I mean by sketchy in a minute, but I know what you're really here for is this:2004 VibeShadowsunroofHID lightscold air intakeviper alarm system with remote startjensen in dash dvd with...

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Quote, originally posted by VforVIBE Â»Thant sucks...Talk to the manager... if that doesn't work, talk to his bosses' boss, keep working your way up till they get it right.Yeah, the letter is going to the service manager and if I don't get a reply in a week or two, another will be going to the store...

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Quote, originally posted by ToolGuy Â»I looked at this post... For the bulbs even though you can see their little filaments, there still could be a crack in them. Thus why doing a "Fonzy job" hitting the dash moves them enough to make contact and burn. However once off and the filament coo...

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I thought I'd post this here to let other people know where not to go:Springfield (VT) Automart (pontiac, gmc, buick, etc.)Here's the deal: '04 vibe wouldn't start, had it towed there. Turned out to be the battery cables, which they fixed not as quickly as I would have liked, but fine. While it was ...

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Looking around other threads, there was some mention of headlights in connection to backlit controls. One of the other bumbling adventures of the previous owner was to install hid headlights. It wouldn't be so bad if he knew what he was doing, but he apparently doesn't because the brights don't work...

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Quote, originally posted by ColonelPanic Â»Do you have the smoker's package that came with the lighter or the 12V power outlet with the flip-down cover that comes without having the smoker's package?I have the flipdown cover. I guess that means no green led light around it and just an extra connecto...

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I have a similar problem but it isn't the fuses. I posted it on another thread here: http://forums.genvibe.com/zero...26084. If anyone has any clues, I'd appreciate it.

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I'm new around here. Just bought a 2004 vibe from a somewhat sketchy kid this past summer. Got a good deal, but I've been fixing his poor attempts at being a mechanic/electrician/non-moron for the past 6 months, but that's another posts worth of ranting.I'm going to have to resurrect this post to se...

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