My ‘03 has 283,000 miles, and the only squeak or rattle I ever get is usually something I’ve brought in and let loose. Occasionally I have to open and close the glove box or reach over and move the passenger seat belt.

Dash top is SERIOUSLY sunburnt and cracked though... looks like hell, doesn’t make a sound.

No, it’s natural place is either in my driveway, carrying me on my commute, or at the alignment shop. Again.

2003 GMC Sonoma, 2.2L 5 speed, options list that starts and stops at “Air conditioning”. 283,000 miles. No rust, even though I caught a tree with the roof a couple months ago.

If I can keep the front wheels…

Some of the oval setups have the driver countersteering on the straights and going almost neutral in the corners. It’s not “comfort” power steering, it’s literally there to keep the steering feedback from ripping the wheel out of a driver’s grip or just plain wearing them out.

Oh, and road courses now. 3500lb car…

Pretty goddamn hot, in that GP suit.

I can respect that *and* tell you it’s between 130 and 160 degrees air temp inside a cup car depending on track and time of year, with interior surface temps exceeding 300F in spots.

Wonder what they would have seen had they laced those thing’s “treads” with some cheap rope.....

model Splood?

That’s the *entire* problem here...

They have power steering.
“Hot car” though, is understated... there was a time a while back where a crew member for I think Rusty Wallace dropped a ball point pen in the car.

In a couple of laps that cheap bic pen turned into a concern about whether or not the steaming hot puddle of molten plastic was going to soak…

“I am the sidecar”

Air injection doesn’t “get around” anything, it gets oxygen to unburned hydrocarbons. Same system probably supplied the catalytic converter through a split, AMC likely had the original air injection bung in the exhaust pipe because.... well, AMC. Manifold may have been an early 70's part.

I’m going with CPR. And your latter assertion.

A few received pins A-C.

Ohhhh my god.

I hope you realize how rare it is to have a Dr. Strangegun issued star.....

Well, light them.

On fire, preferably.

What it’s great for is bleeding suburbanite testosterone junkies of cash.

Usually smells like it, so...

For what it’s worth, I had a Daewoo Leganza that was by all rights a fantastic car for the time (2001). If an independent Daewoo back then had a little more to them to invest in design, they’d likely still be around as an independent company.

For anyone familiar with them, mine was a 2.2l 5 speed. If yours was an…

If the cruise control deactivates at all, and you’re only hydroplaning one drive wheel, you’re suddenly at closed throttle with an engaged driveline and almost no traction on one side of the car.

Think about the dynamics there... especially on a FWD car.

if I’m wiping severely enough to need more light than the DRLs provide, doubtless it’s dark enough for my overly frickin’ sensitive automatic headlight system to have kicked on anyways.

And that’s on a most basic-of-basic 2003 GMC Sonoma.

“What that’s saying is that as soon as a car on cruise in heavy rain begins to hydroplane or skid or experience some other loss of control, cruise control kicks off.”

Incorrect, sir. I have experienced this personally in a 2003 Daewoo Leganza during a run back home one rainy night. I hit a puddle with the right side…