Recent content by jvp

Hell I did 160 in a 4th gen Corvette in a public road and lived to tell about it. Of course that was during the Pony Express a whole bunch of years ago, but who's counting? ;-)

Got mine today; they look fantastic per @Terrance Speed's usual. Pics after I get them and the splitter installed (perhaps this weekend).

This is exactly the case. On newer GM cars with the Google crap integrated, it's all handled via OnStar. But on the cars with an OEM nav and SD card for the maps, it's on the card.

I got my replacement last week, thanks @Terrance Sig. I'll use the box to return my original if you have a shipping label for me. ETA on the wheel arch pieces? :)

Thanks for the useless snark that missed its target. GM's owners manual say to do it. In every manual transmission equipped car they've made for ... ever? They say to park it in reverse (or first) as well as using the parking brake. Sure there's a certain amount of CYA there on GM's part...

No one should take this as a personal attack; I knew a few people that do this, too, and it just blows my mind: one should never, ever park a manual in neutral. Always keep it in gear, and with GM manuals, preferably in reverse. Having that extra amount of engine compression to help prevent...

I was going to say those mats look fantastic and I'd love to get a set myself, but then I saw the red center rear seat belt and knew instantly that it was a fake. Those don't exist, didn't you know that? Why post something misleading like that, Sean? ;-)

It's almost like it was intended as a gift from GM: avoid the GG tax and defeat it fairly easily. Nah, they wouldn't want to help their customers are all, would they? (Hint: that's exactly what it was for).

Thanks. The more I struggle to find something adequate, the less interested I am in driving the car during the colder temps. I'll probably just park it until it warms up enough; I do have a big pickup to drive as well.

They'd list them if they (still) carried them, even if they were out of stock. I'm guessing they don't carry them any longer. Likely discontinued; Pirelli's been cleaning house on a lot of the older Sottos and discontinuing them, it seems.

Tire Rack doesn't have those. At least I wasn't able to find them in that size there. Where did you get them?

Which Pirellis and which sizes?

Breaker bar to break. Impact (slow) to loosen/remove and then again to gently tighten. Torque wrench to do the final tighten. Don't use the impact to start or finish the job.

Be forewarned: one of the negative feedback bits of these tires is that they're noisy as hell on dry roads. Some may care, others may not.

They were not. They'll be sent at a later time after Terrance has enough of them to ship.