Ongoing General Automotive Thread 2.0

[woob]

Originally Posted by Bill Bumface

IMO, the best road for this is Chain Lakes road from Nanton across to the 22.

Lots of curves and hills, very little traffic, and more importantly tons and tons of visibility so you can have fun safely. Cops/animals and other traffic can be seen from a huge distance on that road because it's not forested. One of my absolute favourite roads, and I will always choose this route on the way to Highway 3.

Yeah, thats a great road.

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I wish more car makers made wagons.

Saaaaame. I love my VW and wish I could buy a newer version of it. Or an R model of it.

[woob]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

Don't know what vehicle woob's got, but just make sure if you're going to size down that your model/trim can fit a smaller wheel over the brakes. If they didn't offer a factory wheel in that reduced size, check around and get confirmation that you can run a 17".

Confirmed I cannot run 17s due to callipers, so thank you for that TD.

Research was humorous. Came across one guy who made the mistake and asked if he could just grind down the callipers. Of course he got lit up in the responses.

[Bill Bumface]

I need a starter. On the car in question, it's 1 hour of labour. After suffering through a starter job that was 8 hours of book time myself (I choose not to admit how long it took me), I was thinking at that amount of labour it's worth it to take a flyer on an aftermarket starter instead of OEM. Am I dumb?

[TorqueDog]

Woob, sometimes you can swing it with wheel spacers depending on where the wheel and caliper are contacting, but yeah, you're better off sticking with a wheel that fits without them.