Did you do the application yourself? How does it apply as opposed to plastidip? This stuff is supposed to be more like a vinyl wrap correct?

Curious what your basis is for the comment? Do you have first hand experience with both plastidip and vinyl wrap? I’m on the fence on which way to go myself, and $400 for some product seems a bit better for the budget than a $3000 wrap. I’ve had good luck with plastidip as a wheel coating and have been very pleased…

Then again I always liked the escalade in from Paris with love, blower and lowered suspension. Perfection.

Gm could follow the same formula, just drop one of the supercharged power plants out of the corvette or the cts-v and you’d be good to go. Lower the suspension a bit and it’d be a perfect hauler.

I agree the sweeping generalizations aren’t accurate, but for habits sake, it makes sense to always use the parking brake. I have neve heard of one freezing up in the cold, so that’s new to me. I’ve had the cable freeze from corrosion, but not cold, and that’s normally because the brake got used very infrequently. …

Agreed 100%. I was responding to the other schmuck who lives in a state without such a law and he stopped and then went through a red light, got popped by the cops, and is now bellyaching because the cop enforced the law and gave him a ticket, but of course he didn’t deserve the ticket, cause the mean old police…

I’m all for the laws and I could care less who passes what. The snowflake in question is the schmuck who thinks laws don’t apply to them because they’re special and they know better. That’s a bunch of BS. If the law or traffic signal is in place, then it should be complied with. Simple as that. And if you think…

Never had an issue with the cold freezing the brake on. No reason, other than the fresh off the track, to not set the brake. Why put undue stress on the trans when you don’t have to?

Hey, imagine that.... if you don’t like a law or a light, maybe have the law changed, what a novel idea... but I guess you could just be a special snowflake like kentB8... and just ignore the light because I want to.

Of course nowadays, I was talking about the automotive repair dark ages.... you know all the way back in the early nineties;) before internet and YouTube. Nowadays, google the issue and the vehicle specifics and see what pops up. Hopefully it leads to a YouTube video. These are good times we live in.

YouTube is your friend. We live in a great day and age with the availability of YouTube for diy videos. So much info out there. No more trips to the library for a chilton or Haynes manual.

This guy gets it.

And if you plan ahead, rockauto will save you more money too and give you a better selection.

Carfax and maintenance records. The information is out there, pretty easy to find.

I’m not understanding the issue here. Who needs a new car anyway? Hell even a 5 year or older car has lots of good life left in it. And once it gets to the bottom of that depreciation curve, you’re getting good value. If new cars are too expensive, then don’t buy one, right? That’s what used cars are for. Oh boo…

Once you hear it, there’s no question. That blower whine and the exhaust note, so nice.

Since you’re likely keeping the larger tires, have you thought about swapping out the air springs for a conventional coil over?

Reminds me of this ad:

Not to worry, those are just engineers estimates. It’ll be more, especially with the short time frame for the materials procurement. Those structural steel beams aren’t something sitting on a shelf somewhere.

20-50 years is the norm for life expectancy for roads and bridges. Asphalt roads will go 5 years before major rehab, concrete 20 years, bridges and such, 50 years. This does assume there is regular maintenance and all that.