What Did You Do To Your HHR Today?
03-29-2017, 08:05 PM
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Congrats Jwhouk. . . . ! When do the mods start 
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More like a gonna do, instead of a did.
Going to take the black panel over to hospital.
my middle sister is having some surgery done tomorrow morning.
blackie will get to exercise bout 50 miles round trip.
!!!More like a gonna do, instead of a did.
Going to take the black panel over to hospital.
my middle sister is having some surgery done tomorrow morning.
blackie will get to exercise bout 50 miles round trip.
03-30-2017, 03:17 AM
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I found this in the parking lot!
So I just paid off my 11 HHR 1LT, but I found this when I came out from work today. But I did get in my LED headlight bulbs, LED taillights, Interior LED bulbs, and pads and rotors. But before all that, off to the body shop.[ATTACH][ATTACH]
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03-30-2017, 02:26 PM
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I put on the Energy Suspense front sway bar bushings, forgot to grease them, now they squeak. So, I'll be greasing them up tonight.
03-30-2017, 04:16 PM
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Went out to drive Sweetie to a doctors appointment, thought the left rear looked low, and saw a nail sticking in the thread and out through the side wall!
It's raining here , so no pictures, just a half drown old coot ! Looks like the summer wheels will go on until I order up a replacement set of tires for the winter rims!
Ggrrrr, darned contractors down the street, said anybody could have dropped a nail in the road!
Strange the 4 inch framing nail matches the colour and twist of the box of nails on their jobsite.
Well the tread was pretty much worn down anyways!
It's raining here , so no pictures, just a half drown old coot ! Looks like the summer wheels will go on until I order up a replacement set of tires for the winter rims!
Ggrrrr, darned contractors down the street, said anybody could have dropped a nail in the road!
Strange the 4 inch framing nail matches the colour and twist of the box of nails on their jobsite.
Well the tread was pretty much worn down anyways!
03-31-2017, 02:09 PM
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Well Oldblue, no need fer them fancy pants Snow Tires once you get to The Southland, but a flat that's unrepairable still sucks.
I'd approach the contractor with the angle of "make nice and pay for my tire" or you know what they say about word of mouth. A happy person tells 5-10 people according to marketing studies, a ticked off person tells 50-75 people on average, and then they spread the word.
At least it wasn't two diagonally opposite flat tires simultaneously, that happened to me last October after some "nice person" in Concord, NC "salted" the grass parking lot of the Early Polling location with 10-Penny nails.
Scratch two Tiger Paw GTZ "UHP" VR Speed Rated tires,
Paddy is all exited to show the four wheeled Oldblue his new shoes, and his calipers will have a fresh coat of High Temp Silverstone Metallic in three weeks.
You are going to let the MIL ride inside right, no Wagon Queen Family Truckster shenanigans OK.
*Yes we do have the Hallmark® ornament on the tree every year, it's a game to see who notices it first, and their reaction.
I'd approach the contractor with the angle of "make nice and pay for my tire" or you know what they say about word of mouth. A happy person tells 5-10 people according to marketing studies, a ticked off person tells 50-75 people on average, and then they spread the word.
At least it wasn't two diagonally opposite flat tires simultaneously, that happened to me last October after some "nice person" in Concord, NC "salted" the grass parking lot of the Early Polling location with 10-Penny nails.
Scratch two Tiger Paw GTZ "UHP" VR Speed Rated tires,
Paddy is all exited to show the four wheeled Oldblue his new shoes, and his calipers will have a fresh coat of High Temp Silverstone Metallic in three weeks.
You are going to let the MIL ride inside right, no Wagon Queen Family Truckster shenanigans OK.
*Yes we do have the Hallmark® ornament on the tree every year, it's a game to see who notices it first, and their reaction.
03-31-2017, 04:38 PM
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I don't have fancy winter tires, just winter rims, I run the same brand and type of tires on both sets!
Winter steelies
Summer WV Rally rims and Chrome bay moons
It's the salt and sand I want to keep off those moons!
Winter steelies
Summer WV Rally rims and Chrome bay moons
It's the salt and sand I want to keep off those moons!
04-01-2017, 12:11 AM
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Paddy has a second set of rims and tires for SCCA Autocrossing, and since I had to sit out the 2016 season, I've changed things up a bit for '17.
I scored a set of lightly curbed but easily repainted Motegi® M-126 rims on "Flea-bay" for $200, and a fellow SCCA competitor grabbed up 16 shaved BFG G-Force 2 tires, also SCCA legal. And I snagged eight of them.
So on competition days, Paddy will have these in his wheel wells...
The big advantage to the Motegi® rims and shaved BFG tires is weight savings, they weigh 26.3 pounds per corner (11.93 Kilograms), while the Drifter II rims and Tiger Paw GTZ combo weigh in at 32.4 pounds (14.7 Kilograms) per corner.
And in Autocrossing, any unsprung weight you can shave is an advantage, even if it's only 24 pounds +/-.
Now if the SCCA would only let us run like a 50 to 100 shot of "Giggle Gas" AKA Nitrous, then that flipping L-61 powered mid 1960's Fiat 500 could be caught. That car is utterly mental.
P.S. I thought Floridians had a third season there aradmohagany, Summer, Slightly Cooler Summer, and Octogenarians with the huge wrap around sunglasses driving 1990 Buick LeSabres at 30mph in the Fast Lane Season.
I scored a set of lightly curbed but easily repainted Motegi® M-126 rims on "Flea-bay" for $200, and a fellow SCCA competitor grabbed up 16 shaved BFG G-Force 2 tires, also SCCA legal. And I snagged eight of them.
So on competition days, Paddy will have these in his wheel wells...
The big advantage to the Motegi® rims and shaved BFG tires is weight savings, they weigh 26.3 pounds per corner (11.93 Kilograms), while the Drifter II rims and Tiger Paw GTZ combo weigh in at 32.4 pounds (14.7 Kilograms) per corner.
And in Autocrossing, any unsprung weight you can shave is an advantage, even if it's only 24 pounds +/-.
Now if the SCCA would only let us run like a 50 to 100 shot of "Giggle Gas" AKA Nitrous, then that flipping L-61 powered mid 1960's Fiat 500 could be caught. That car is utterly mental.
P.S. I thought Floridians had a third season there aradmohagany, Summer, Slightly Cooler Summer, and Octogenarians with the huge wrap around sunglasses driving 1990 Buick LeSabres at 30mph in the Fast Lane Season.
04-01-2017, 06:14 AM
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Mike that Fiat reminds me Ooh one that ran here in the late70's. The Sabotage an ex iceracer. It was I believe a Saab 90, 3 cylinder 2cyclr floorpan with a hood, front fenders, a drivers seat, and a roll cage. It was fast and at the time a 10,000 RPM shift point was unheard of. I wonder what happened to it?
04-01-2017, 07:18 AM
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The unsprung weight deal makes a huge difference with performance and fuel economy in general. When I switched back to the factory 2LT wheels last fall the HHR drove so differently and fuel consumption dropped by 3-5 mpg... I hadn't noticed when I first put those Euromax wheels on way back when that they were a major part of my performance equation.