When you ruin your daily driver to the point you need to get another one...

[12,000 RPM]

Don't forget that it's lowered, which can further add to the hassle. My jack just barely fits under the mount points. And this car prob won't see the track or Auto-X lot. I just don't get it. My UHP A/Ss grip harder than anyone with sense will ever push on the street... year round. [/rant over]

[Soup DeVille]

Isn't it a pain in the ass to switch the tires/wheels?  You have to jack up and down individually 4 times.  Or do you have access to a lift? 

Just asking because I switch out my all seasons for winters on one of my cars every November and thought about doing it on my own but then thought better of it and got it done every year in combo with an oil change at a local shop.

Most cars you can do one whole side at a time.

[giant_mtb]

Given his vehicle history, I feel like he has a low-pro jack and 4 stands in his arsenal.

[Gotta-Qik-C7]

Same story with the few counties in OH that do it.



Amazingly, my Neon passed with an empty cat.

Royal PITA!!!!!

[r0tor]

I don't know if that works here. If you turn off something like the o2 sensor, it might not show as "ready", which is what they're looking for.

It works fine.  Readiness is not effected. Just any trouble code that can be thrown is turned off... Therefore no trouble codes are shown to be active.

I passed emissions for like 5 years without a catalytic converter.

[Cookie Monster]

Isn't it a pain in the ass to switch the tires/wheels?  You have to jack up and down individually 4 times.  Or do you have access to a lift? 

Just asking because I switch out my all seasons for winters on one of my cars every November and thought about doing it on my own but then thought better of it and got it done every year in combo with an oil change at a local shop.

No, not really. Right now it's a pain in the ass because my dad trashed the garage again (that I just cleaned a few weeks ago ), and the driveway is super rough gravel/asphalt, but normally it takes about 15 min.

Don't forget that it's lowered, which can further add to the hassle. My jack just barely fits under the mount points. And this car prob won't see the track or Auto-X lot. I just don't get it. My UHP A/Ss grip harder than anyone with sense will ever push on the street... year round. [/rant over]

Lol, I got my extreme performance 200tw tires for $100/ea, which is far cheaper than any decent UHP A/S in the same size, especially once you factor in shipping and handling.

I also wouldn't trust any of those tires in the mountains with snow, so I'd have to run a separate set of snow tires anyways, and only an idiot would daily Blizzaks year round, especially in California. Why not get some fun rubber for the 99% of the time I'm driving? I also live next to miles and miles of epic twisties, so the tires get their use, and being able to keep up with or pass sports cars on downhills in a grandma wagon is always hilarious.

Given his vehicle history, I feel like he has a low-pro jack and 4 stands in his arsenal.

I have a shitty harbor freight jack that I need to upgrade, but it gets the job done. Some of you guys just make a far bigger deal of simple things for some reason. As Soup said, I jack it up once and do two wheels at a time (once under the front crossmember and once under the rear diff).

It works fine.  Readiness is not effected. Just any trouble code that can be thrown is turned off... Therefore no trouble codes are shown to be active.

I passed emissions for like 5 years without a catalytic converter.

Hmm, I should ask my tuner to turn off my o2 sensors. Last time I smogged the car I just flashed the stock tune back on, but I do have the main cat.

[CaminoRacer]

I recently upgraded from my crappy 1.5 ton aluminum racing jack to a nicer HF 3 ton low profile steel jack. It's lower profile and lifts the car 5 more inches.

[giant_mtb]

Some of you guys just make a far bigger deal of simple things for some reason.

This forum is very good at that.  People be like "wow, super cool that you spent a week re-building your intake" and then be like "omg you're gonna take 20 minutes to swap wheels?  What a PITA!" 

[Cookie Monster]

I recently upgraded from my crappy 1.5 ton aluminum racing jack to a nicer HF 3 ton low profile steel jack. It's lower profile and lifts the car 5 more inches.

I bought a steel one, but holy shit it's heavy. I returned it, but the aluminum ones don't go as low and don't lift as high either... I might just have to buy another steel one, but am waiting till I move out first.

This forum is very good at that.  People be like "wow, super cool that you spent a week re-building your intake" and then be like "omg you're gonna take 20 minutes to swap wheels?  What a PITA!" 

Yeah, seriously, I don't get it. That's 20 min without even using power tools, just a basic tool set and cheap HF torque wrenches. I thought this is a car forum. It'd take me longer to set up an appointment, drive to a shop, wait, and drive back than it would to just do the oil change and wheel swap myself.

Anywho, I got bored at like 11PM last night and installed my new mud flaps. The old hardware holding the old guards one were pretty seized on so I had to take a hacksaw and Dremel to them, which was a PITA. Also, weirdly enough, the site I bought the flaps from said to buy the shorter flaps if the car is lowered at all, but I got the standard length ones and think they look pretty good on my lowered car. I do scrape the front ones on speed bumps, but I kind of wanted some scrapage action.

[Cookie Monster]

Also, rotor, I was super tempted to get red ones like you said, but even I don't think I'm a big enough ricer to go through with it.

[Rupert]

The more you go, the more you'll pare down on things you don't actually need.

Yes, but car camping is made for overpacking.

[giant_mtb]

Yes, but car camping is made for overpacking.

Yeah, and I'd always prefer to take too much stuff than not enough.

[Rupert]

I just hate unpacking all that shit...

[Cookie Monster]

Eh, we just took a tent and tarp and 4 chairs and food. It's just that with 4 people everything else adds up (sleeping bags, clothes, etc).

I'm super tempted to just go camp by myself. When I went camping about a month ago with the Subaru, my friends brought so much shit because they needed their full breakfast (they cooked omelettes and bacon FFS). This last time was way more fun.

[CaminoRacer]

I just bring poptarts. Cooking breakfast is too much work.

[Cookie Monster]

I just don't eat breakfast. Problem solved.

[giant_mtb]

Closest thing to breakfast I eat while camping is a Clif bar for brunch.

[CaminoRacer]

If I don't eat breakfast I just stay in my sleeping bag all morning.

[Cookie Monster]

Eh, even when I go skiing I don't eat till lunch, and even then lunch is just clif bars every few hours till dinner.

[68_427]

Isn't it a pain in the ass to switch the tires/wheels?  You have to jack up and down individually 4 times. 

Our cars are on coilovers which don't droop down the same as regular suspension.  You can put a jack behind the front tire and both wheels on that side will leave the ground at almost the exact same time.

[veeman]

I see.  Thanks. 

I've changed a tire several times in my ute, for flats, and I know several of you guys do it often for upgrades.  I would think changing all 4 back and forth between all seasons and winters for every ski trip would be kinda a pain in the ass and so I was curious.  Some haterade apparently on the question but that's OK.

[Soup DeVille]

I just don't eat breakfast. Problem solved.

I skip lunch a lot, but breakfast of some kind is essential. Oatmeal works a lot of the time when camping, and I can cook it up in about five minutes on my little backpacking stove. Some kind of granola bar will work otherwise.

[Cookie Monster]

I see.  Thanks. 

I've changed a tire several times in my ute, for flats, and I know several of you guys do it often for upgrades.  I would think changing all 4 back and forth between all seasons and winters for every ski trip would be kinda a pain in the ass and so I was curious.  Some haterade apparently on the question but that's OK.

No haterade towards your question, just haterade towards sportys "no one should get anything other than UHP A/S tires for a street car" comment.

[12,000 RPM]

I just don't eat breakfast. Problem solved.

Dat intermittent fasting life

[Cookie Monster]

Dat intermittent fasting life

It's seriously the best. I don't really follow the 8 hour eating window, but so I eat ~1pm to 12am generally, but it simplifies things so much to not have to eat breakfast in the morning. I can roll out of bed and into the car within a few minutes.

[giant_mtb]

I'm a 2 meals a day person as well. Unless you count a Red Bull and some sort of granola bar as breakfast.  Usually means I eat a small lunch and then a big dinner.

[Cookie Monster]

I'm a 2 meals a day person as well. Unless you count a Red Bull and some sort of granola bar as breakfast.  Usually means I eat a small lunch and then a big dinner.

No calories till lunch.

I just have black coffee and water in the morning. The little bit of hunger keeps me moving in the mornings as well.

On weekends if I'm out tinkering on things, I'll probably forget to eat till about 6-7pm. And then I wonder why I can't gain weight.

[CaminoRacer]

I get hangry and groggy if I don't eat something in the morning.

[Cookie Monster]

Eh, you get used to it.

[r0tor]

Also, rotor, I was super tempted to get red ones like you said, but even I don't think I'm a big enough ricer to go through with it.

Oh you know you are