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I have the same problem with one of my doors but it's the rear passenger. There's a switch on the inside of the door frame covered with rubber. It should move a little and it is what tell the car your door is closed. It's probably broken like mine. I never got mine fixed because I don't care about t...

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My 03 AWD Vibe had it's left rear bearing go at about 160000 miles and the other ones near end of life two. My guy at the garage found me a part in NYC somewhere pretty cheap. GM wanted $340! Don't think he had to do an alignment though. At least he didn't charge me for one. Sound so much better now!

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MY 03 AWD has 156,000 now. I've had a air bag light on now for a year, something about a short and or open on both bags. Needs new rotors and brakes all around. But runs great, and is fantastic in snow. Cant drive in snow thats over 10 or 12 inches though or starts to bottom out. Trany takes a few m...

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MY 03 AWD Vibe is off too. Before getting a gps, whenever I got zapped by one of those radar units which show you how fast your going, I always got zapped doing 2 under what my speedometer said. After getting a GPS it would say my speed way 2 MPH slower than what my speedometer said doing 55 and 4 u...

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Hey Pawkar! I've noticed the colder it is the more my car consumes gas. I usually average 26 mph with mine but in the winter it can go down to about 22 mph. The manual genrally recomends 5W-30 for oil, unless you in a place where it's real hot most of the time. I change my oil every 3000 miles even ...

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One thing I noticed about my AC is when I'm stuck in trafic it doesn't work as good as when I'm crusing. If I'm on a road where the speed limmit is only 40 Mph I'll turn off the overdrive to keep the Rpm's up. Oh and keep your air set to recirculate. The air inside your car may be warmer than outsid...

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Bought the BF Goodrich traction TA's 2 weeks ago at S@#rs for $97 a peace. Went there to buy Michelen Pilot's which were on sale, but of coase the smaller ones were $86. The ones I needed, 205 55R 16 were $114 ea. Well I blinked and got the BF goodrich. Not a bad tire, strange though BF goodrich doe...

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I've had my AWD vibe two years now. Driven through a few good storms and it got me there safe. The last one they didn't seem to plow untill after I got to work so there was 6 inches or more in spots. The only time I gut stuck is when I got home and hit a pile maybe 12 inches or more. SO if the snow ...

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Rain, snow, it's all good! If you got a AWD Vibe I mean.

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I just used some wood screws, the bigest that would fit in the whole. I've had my baslink for a year now and it seems to be holding. Bear in mind I have the AWD and don't take corners at 100 MPH. Long term though I suppose I should get bolts. I like the corner mount. The bass just reflects off the c...

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I had a similar experience with my dealer. I have a Satellite vibe and they gave me silver paint. Itâ€™s close but I think itâ€™s a little brighter than Satellite.

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Does anyone else feel there lights are to low when on low beam? I swear i can bearly see 5 car lengths at night. I thought low beams were supposed to light up about 300 feet ahead of you or so.

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Did your car say -45 degress or was that the wind chill factor? I worked one night two weeks ago, got into my car and said -6 degrees. Didn't know if it even read into the negative but it does. Takes forever to get heat to and everything is stiff untill I get going.

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I have a 03 AWD Vibe with about 12K now and my milage has dropped from about 27 to 21mpg since winter began. Now Up here in NY we stopped using MTBE addative Jan 1 and increased to 10 % Ethonol. These addative will reduce milage but I did not expect this much a drop. Perhaps the extreme cold weather...

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Orange county NY, 20 PLUS inches baby! I had drive 25 miles to work Saturday night too. Vibe handled great! Granted the AWD helped! Never got close to getting stuck but tires spun often. It was a horrible storm here.

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I just picked up and tried Prestone's new "High protection WAX". It's some kind of sybthetic Carnuba. I got to tell ya it put on a real nice shine. Buffs off real easy by hand with a terry cloth towel. I used Zymol up to now but it does not have a reputation for lasting. Presotne does.

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How it going Mike? Hey I think I'm off that Saturday so I'll try and come with my AWD Vibe.

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Mike, The Bazoka sub has to be spliced into the Vibes wire harnace someware. I downloaded the Matrix sub instalation guide and used it to install my Basslink. Was real easy!

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I got two keys and two remotes from my dealer. My dealer just can't make keys for it! Gues I gota go to Toyota to get one if I want it.

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I did not close my thermas teight enough the other day and had at leasts 2 full cups of coffe, lot's of cream, dump all over my passenger seat. It just soaked right in, even into the top half of the seat. I cleaned it up as best as I could but you can still smel coffe with cream when you get in the ...

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I have the basslink installed and I did it myself. It does not take up much room so unless you really need the full width of the cargo area, just mount it in the back.I have it mounted vertically dirrected into the left rear courner. You can mount these thins horizontally or Verticaly. I tried both ...

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I didn't mention in my last post but I was refering to the factory door pannel with built in grill. If you cut that out I'm sure you wouldn't have the problem anymore.

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Someone asked for a pick of the basslink, here it is! [IMG][/IMG]

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Word of warning on those grills. I replaced all my speakers as well, but had to pull the front off agian to change something. When I installed the front speakers I used the old speaker shell. What I did not notice at the time was the interior of the grill or door pannel has a honeycomb grill that pe...

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200 W RMS! Plenty for just adding to the factory Moons & toons package.

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Additional info.. Helpful parts: 18-22 gage splices, get them at parts store. 18-22 male insulated connectors, these plug into splices. I spent maybe a total of $300 on this project. Origionaly I had walked into a big retail store and was going to spend up to $500 to have it done. They tried to sell...

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I was very leery about doing this myself. I bought an Infinity basslink and was installing it myself. I had to run power wires from the battery and splice into the speaker level outputs from the radio. Something I had never done. But it was al fairly easy and if I can do it most of you can to. The b...

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What a beautiful day to install an Infinity Basslink! Which I finally did today. The wire diagram from the matrix subwoofer manual was indeed helpful, thank you Toyota http://www.toyotaparts4u.com/installation_manuals.htm ! Iâ€™m still tooning it but the bass is fantastic. Almost more than I wanted....

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I tried uploading the PDF but didn't work. So heres the link for a toyota dealer 's web site. Go to this link http://www.toyotaparts4u.com/installation_manuals.htm and click on Matrix subwoofer. The Pdf is 1.62 Mb.

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Beleive me there was a difference! I had to set the bass to 6 to get any real bass on some songs. I inverted all the speaker wires and now I can leave it on 0 or +1 and get good pumping bass. I think when you reverse the polarity the woofer moves in the opposite direction. Since it is then pushing o...

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here's the PDF document I downloaded. It's helpfull evben if your not going with a Bazooka. I actually bought an Infinety Basslink. I plan on installing it this weekend weather permitting. Most of the instruction in this manual are great for those of us who have decided to keep our stock radios.

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I had found a wire diagram on this site for the moons and toons package. It was very helpful when installing my JBLâ€™s all the way around. What happened though is after installing them I had no bass. I later downloaded the instruction manual for the matrix subwoofer which had a wire diagram. The co...

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I just had my first oil change and she's getting about 28 MpG average. I dirve a mix of county and interstate highways.

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I just pulled my fronts today. Put in 6 1/2 JBL GTO625's and they dropped right in. Followed your instructions, thanks! To my suprize though my stock fronts were 2 ohm speakers. Usually when I pull stock speakers they are like 12 ohms. This is why most aftermarket speakers sound better, or party why...

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Did the same thing myself today! Worked fine for me too. What colors were the speaker wires for your Front right and left speakers? I have the wiring diagram for the Vibe but it did not match the left front speaker. The diagram said the colors should have been purple and something else. But they wer...

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I am looking into updating my stock speakers and maybe adding a small sub-woofer. I have researched the topic and Crutchfield says the speakers are 6 Â½ inch P-fit style speakers. They did not offer any same fit speakers for the Vibe.Has anyone taking the plung and tried this yet? What did you do an...

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low beams to low?

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Are the seat covers replacebal? HELP!

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