Recent content by slashsnake

5k down, 2k trade in on an 01 grand am with 100k miles. 4.4% interest, paying $300 a month for 5 years for my 2010. Insurance for switching from the grand am to the MS3 went up 18 bucks every 6 months (no tickets in over 10 years, 1 warning my 2nd day with the car...lol)

Yeah it could be just slow turnaround on some of their vehicles. Bought mine about 3 weeks ago, and it has the side mirror lights and floor LED's. But they only had one left when I bought mine. Saw they have 3 now, looks like two don't have the mirror lights.

Read elsewhere where a guy was pissed, and checked with the dealer. His dealer told him since it was listed on the invoice, they'd order and install the mirrors if the wiring was there, if the wiring wasn't they'd offer a refund for the mirror cost. Turned out he had 6 wires going into his...

Just a few notes on this.. if the invoice still lists those options as standard, the dealer has to either refund the cost of them, or install them. I've heard of some owners going back to the dealer, and forcing the dealer to re-install the equipment listed as "standard" when they failed to...

Personally I am not a fan of the Element, but that is me, size is nice, but don't think it has the off-road capabilities I'd want. But I do know that if I didn't already have a Nissan Xterra, I would have a hard time buying an MS3, just because I do camp/hunt/fish quite a bit, and I am not...

Anyone actually have any posted Dyno results or times on reg cat vs. gutted cat? Most every car I've seen this attempted with has had the same result when they dyno'd. The science of it is this... higher turbulence of exhaust gasses through the empty cat reservoir, higher backpressure, and...

Yup, which is why, as much as I want to get down to our local track for some lapping days (2.5 mile 15 turn rolling hills), I'm gonna wait a bit longer.

Even better... Today there I am in my office at work, and have a local state senator out to tour our plant, and it all of a sudden starts playing Metallica from my jacket. Seems the past week or so it sometimes shuts off when I stop the car, but then will start playing at random moments...

690 miles now here... They said it isn't really a "break in" but in the manual it says not to run same speeds for long distances, run high RPM's for long periods of time, race the engine, full throttle starts, or hard braking for the first 600 miles.

Went for a drive today, was 15-20 F, didn't notice anything of note.

Nice looking Si, sorry to see it go. I had two teggy's, both GS-R's. Loved the first one, those B18C1's were nice N/A motors, made a "poor Man's R" by adding a B16 head to my 2nd... That's the one thing I miss on my MS3. 8200 RPM redline.

Also test drive it for a while, not a quick 2 mile run. Had a heavily modded 08 MS3 for sale here in Colorado at a dealership, and it wasn't till after 5-6 miles that the turbo started smoking on it.

Well I had a teggy with a stage 2, so the clutch feels pretty smooth to me (my wife would disagree). As for the TPMS, mine went off the other day. Had me worried for a sec, till I remembered that happened in my Xterra and pressures were all just a tad low due to outside temp (was about 10...

I was surprised to find it didn't exist either, kind of like the prev gen not having a boost gauge. I do like the bluetooth media player, but every time I shut of my car, my blackberry starts singing from my pocket.. lol

If they had just the keyless push button, as an option I would have thought about it. So not needed, but so cool. Didn't need the nav at all and I'll put in the stereo I want if I am going to pay for it. Just me though...