03TDICommuter
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Installed a pair of aspherical mirrors. Much better than the oblong
"blind spot" stick ons I had. Quality is fine chinesium.
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Installed a pair of aspherical mirrors. Much better than the oblong
"blind spot" stick ons I had. Quality is fine chinesium.
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Haha, yup. I've had my share of friends like that, although I'm a little less than double your age (and really became a car enthusiast when I bought my TDI a week before I turned 30).As someone that is 21 I am kind of obsessed with TDI and turbo cars in general. I can relate seems like when I talk to a lot of people my age they keel over the second I talk about any mods other than my radio with Bluetooth haha. People my age only care that it moves has ac/heat and they can connect their phone for music. Yet all of them want nice cars and when they see a modded one think its awesome, but have no interest in learning about or maintaining their car. Sure hard to have a nice / modded car when you can't take car of it.
It usually gives you an extra 2 gallons, and if you fill all the way to the top, figure about 2.5 gallons extra, give or take. So if you're averaging about 40mpg, this is about an extra hundred miles. The best I've achieved with my BEW (and this mod) was 740 miles, but that was on rural interstate highway.Did a ventectomy on the Desert Jetta today and then filled it up. Prior to this I was getting 500+ miles per tank of rural country driving. Never went low enough on fuel to cause the light to come on. Typically I would refill tank when needle started drop below 1/4.
It will be interesting to see how much addition range this will provide.
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Perfect, thanks. There's a lot of sellers out there and I'd rather buy from a known place.http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pair-Blue-Tinted-Heated-Mirror-Glass-For-VW-Golf-Bora-Jetta-MK4-Passat-B5-99-04/371892653540?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
Arrived in about 2 weeks, very well packaged. At $22 I thought
well worth trying. Fitment was perfect, I like the results.
Cheers,
R*2
PH, why not get one of those portable garages people use for painting cars? Eastwood carries ones that are pretty cheap and erect in a few minutes (poly sheet). Will keep the critters out!Changed the engine oil and auto-tragic transaxle oil (well, the part of it you can anyway) in my wife's New Beetle. Did that last night, in my driveway. Surprised a big skunk who seems to think his normal route should include my house. We disagreed on that, but luckily he backed right off and did not leave any gifts.
The worst thing about the night was the 200 different flying insects that crawled all over me. And of course, the itchiness left behind by the ones that had liquid refreshment at my expense. I suppose I should be grateful that the lacewings didn't chomp on me, and the deerflies had already gone to bed!
Cheers,
PH
Back in December I bought a pair of plastic headlight covers from Ebay for $25 shipped. Fit great, look great. Putting the headlight in the oven on low for 5 mins helped soften the caulking. Still look brand new.New tires, rear brake pads and rotors today and plan to polish the headlights either later today or tomorrow.