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Persephone
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Hello, kids!! After much research looking through tons of cars, a Vibe/Matrix was my only option that met all of my requisites. So~ about two weeks ago I found the one! It's a 2003 Vibe in Lava! His name is Gambit.I have been doing a lot of work on him and whenever I do searches related to what I'm needing to know, I keep getting threads from here. I figured if I make use of this forum so much, I should probably join. Nice to meet you all!! And thanks to whoever the person is who posted about finding a splash guard for the wheel well for so cheap. lol That helped me out a lot. I had just finished working on my brakes, went for a test drive, it came unclipped and. . . in a horrendous gust of wind, the silly plastic piece swooshed out and was ripped right off!! Arrrrgh! DX And no way was I going to be stupid enough not to replace it. Not living in Iowa. Anyway. . . As I was saying, it's nice to meet you guys, and I am very glad to have found these forums. :D
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Hi !
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Apollo says "Howdy!" Welcome to the site!
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Welcome aboard! JR
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Hello and thank you~! Apollo is a cool name!!
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Welcome to GenVibe!
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Welcome to our humble dysfunctional family! oh and be careful around here, there is a nasty little bug going around. It's called the "Mod Bug" symptoms usually consist of loss of income and new parts slowly start to appear on vehicle. It's very contagious.
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Welcome to GVC!!!Quote, originally posted by NascarXprt »oh and be careful around here, there is a nasty little bug going around. It's called the "Mod Bug" symptoms usually consist of loss of income and new parts slowly start to appear on vehicle. It's very contagious. Rumor has it they may have to quarantine us off as it's close to reaching epidemic proportions
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Welcome, another midwesterner Nice find and COLOR As stated by the previous two posts, lets HOPE you are contagious and DO indeed catch this "Mod bug" that's going around. I caught it ......... Hmmmmmmm.......... probably 50+ years ago when I was born and I don't ever want the cure !!! Again WELCOME to this great site. Visit often, share stories and get involved
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helloooo! i really like the duotone but ended up with a monotone.
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Post by Persephone »

Man, well I'm already showing symptoms and google said this is where we had to start our colony. DX lolThank you guys!!
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Welcome! This forum is awesome. I am, by the by, really enjoying the new infusion of nerdiness that you've brought to table
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Everyone comes out of the closet on this website Welcome.
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Welcome! I'm waiting for Alicia (CAMOGIRL) to chime in. Your two Vibes are nearly twins.
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Oh no!! Is my nerdiness already that obvious? lol Thank you guys also!!I would like to see this almost twin of Gambit's!Something terrible happened to me today. e_e I dropped my brother off at a job of ours and then I left to ship some things quick. On the way back, I saw drips on the street that I came from and I was like, "Auuugh, I hope that isn't me!!!" Well I got to the driveway and yeah it was me. . . I went out and rubbed at one of the drips and my fingers were not oily. More like watery dirt. I smelled it and it didn't smell like anything either. And it just evaporated off my fingers. I looked under my car and saw nothing dripping, then popped the hood and checked most of my fluids and they were all good. D:!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY CAR?! Pretty sure he shouldn't make a looong trail of something on the streets.
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Post by kramer »

did you have the ac or defroster on could be condensation from the ac hopefully
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Quote, originally posted by jkm311 »Welcome! I'm waiting for Alicia (CAMOGIRL) to chime in. Your two Vibes are nearly twins.That's me!Welcome officially to the forum! There are a few vibes of similarity on here... Do you have the moon and tunes package? If so then we must be identical twins cept mines a girl, lol. You're going to have a blast with your vibe, I just know. I'm excited to see what you do!That watery trail, was it black dirt in the water?
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Nice to meet you!!! I don't have either of those things, Camogirl! D: Haha. I was very happy that I miraculously got power windows, though. And I'm looking into getting a moon roof.It was clean until I rubbed the street. I actually went out just a little bit ago and checked one fluid I didn't check! Window cleaner! I had just filled it up and it's empty. Wsheeeew. That's not so bad. . . I'll have to figure out what happened when the sun comes up. :3First thing, I'm planning on putting carbon fiber vinyl over my side molding strips. They are so banged up I can't stand to look at them. D:
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Outside? Or inside?
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On the outside. That strip to protect your doors from other doors.
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You two girls need to get together!I think I see a future VOTM nominee. Welcome. Good to see another lava Vibe, the best Vibe color.
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Welcome to the GenVibe family!
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Welcome to GenVibe! Always great to see another female owner join !
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You really think so, K-NINE? Q_Q THANK YOU!!!And thanks for the welcome, KostbyAlso to J_TO_ENVY: Yeah! Power to the ladies who take an interest in their sweet rides!! lol :D
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Quote, originally posted by Persephone »Also to J_TO_ENVY: Yeah! Power to the ladies who take an interest in their sweet rides!! lol :DDefinitely ! And of course... there is no sweeter ride than a Vibe !
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Quote, originally posted by J_TO_ENVY »Definitely ! And of course... there is no sweeter ride than a Vibe !Except for maybe a car made out of candy. Maybe.Belated welcome, but definitely welcome! Enjoy the forum.
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Post by Persephone »

Oh my gooosh, your candy car comment is brilliant. XD Thanks, Kitt!
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