Recent content by arcxer

Dreams, dreams... The fact of the matter is that there's only so much market for sporty and impractical fun-to-drive cars. If all of them jump on the same small piece of market cake, somebody's going to lose.

EconoBox, it seems like you're trying to justify your decision to dump the 2 (?) What exactly does that mean "jump the ship"? Selling the car because its resale value is low seems to be akin dumping stocks when they're down (well, almost). The way I see it: if you like the car -- keep it. If...

As it was said before, people suck. Not only at this -- many other things. Just look how's everybody driving -- and I don't mean lack of driving skills, but the lack of appreciation for others around. Because their (our) little useless problems and looser lives are more important than being...

As I live in NJ, it's not always me who sticks the gas nozzle into the tank. And yet, never had any problems, neither I nor any of the station attendants.

To add to that: with the gauge I, for example, was able to nurse my car home with the thermostat stuck at 'close' (or it could've been failed fan -- don't remember). Essentially, turn the blower on full heat and look at the gauge -- pull over and turn it off as soon as it starts to climb over...

There's, and I believe it's described in the Owner's Manual. It's a bit PITA too (need to remove hatch liner, if I'm not mistaken).

They might be run, but does that count as break-in?

Reminds me: once I was autoxing a car with a half-dead battery. Forgot to turn my radio off when going to work the course, and 2 hours later the car wouldn't start. Not to worry -- the whole paddock of automotive enthusiasts, right? Quickly found a guy with jumper cable, attached (+) to the...

While I think it's unlikely that anybody sane could seriously think of taking life over this (or take that statement seriously for that matter), I wish there were some practical means of dealing with the antisocial behaviors like that. As it is, there's little you can do about these kinds of...

Wow, that's cool, but I wonder whether it'd help. I'd rather have a steel bar or something like that all around (something like this http://www.doordefender.com/con_features.html, only metal) and let them dent their own doors on it.

You should've been really persistent in your attempts to pursue this. And lucky too, if your insurance (?) got to the bottom of it. And I thought I was paranoid, parking my 2 always at the very end of a mall parking lot, preferably in a corner stall (so that at least one side is never under...

I wonder: I don't think the M2 manual says anything about changing ATF. So, how do you guys decide when it's due?

I'm curious about that too. If the rotors rust on their friction surface and driving doesn't remove that -- I'd really start worrying about brakes not working :) But then, I'd assume that on any car front brakes not working would be quite noticeable even without rust (if you're lucky to manage...

Speaking of which: what's the correct torque specs for the lug nuts on M2? I'd assume something like 80 lbs/ft would do, but does anybody know what the manual says?

There's a thread on that in How-To section