Summer wheels on!
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 4:34 pm
Its that time of year! I just washed the car and put the summers on.
Notice the hitch? I tow my 16 foot boat with this car. That 2.4 hauls it with lots of breath left over.
I was going to buy new rubber, but my Eagle RS-A's will do the job for a little while longer. 3 of my rims were bent bad. The roads suck here, and there isn't much rubber on the sidewall to soak up potholes. I used a bottle jack and a little torch heat to straighten them out. Made them a lot better, but i'll still have to replace one or two yet. I got the shaking to only be noticable over 110 kph, so that will encourage my wife not to speed.
The car is very sensitive to any amout of out or round rims! You cannot hit potholes, or bad roads! Dirt roads are a NO-NO!
Plan to service the brakes, and paint up the rusty looking stuff like calipers etc. Black. Once summer hits hard, i am going to drench the underside in undercoating!
Notice the hitch? I tow my 16 foot boat with this car. That 2.4 hauls it with lots of breath left over.
I was going to buy new rubber, but my Eagle RS-A's will do the job for a little while longer. 3 of my rims were bent bad. The roads suck here, and there isn't much rubber on the sidewall to soak up potholes. I used a bottle jack and a little torch heat to straighten them out. Made them a lot better, but i'll still have to replace one or two yet. I got the shaking to only be noticable over 110 kph, so that will encourage my wife not to speed.
The car is very sensitive to any amout of out or round rims! You cannot hit potholes, or bad roads! Dirt roads are a NO-NO!Plan to service the brakes, and paint up the rusty looking stuff like calipers etc. Black. Once summer hits hard, i am going to drench the underside in undercoating!
A paved driveway would be nice also 
but then again if the roads are that terrible then whats a few more meters of stone 
