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Old 02-03-2011, 9:36pm   #1
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Default Got the Vette out today...........

Well, despite temps in the lower teens, the sky was blue and the roads were clear so I took the C5 out today to go work on the C3. Overall, a great experience but I did learn one thing about the C5. If it's cold enough outside, it rattles and creaks just like a C4 in June........................

Oh yea, the Goodyear F1 EMT run flats are like having 4 rocks for tires when it's cold. The car was all over the place until they got heated up, not a pleasurable experience. I gotta get rid of those things this Spring.
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Thats funny because my C4 only has one noise in the winter and it is a "buzz" from the passenger door for the first 2 min of driving! Had my vette out today even though there is salt on the ground!!! Still clean though because I missed all the puddles. I was heating up the tires on the backroads and some lady in a toyota stopped in her tracks like 100ft away
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If I took my Corvette outside right now, it would shatter.
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Mine's not going to be out until April.
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[QUOTE=CRUZN C4;123903]Mine's not going to be out until April.[/QUOT
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Took mine out yesterday, had to go get grocerys




roads were pretty crappy, and it snowed again last night so I'm sure they are sooo much better now
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Oh yea, the Goodyear F1 EMT run flats are like having 4 rocks for tires when it's cold.
A little off of your original topic... but when that time comes DO NOT GO CHEAP.

I have had 4 different kinds on the C5 over the years and it reacts to different tires more than any car I have ever seen. If you can foot the bill for some PS2s, get them and don't look back.
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If I took my Corvette outside right now, it would shatter.
May I suggest Dutch Harbor, seems pretty nice there, or if that's too far, you
may come and visit me in Edmonton, where it's warm
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May I suggest Dutch Harbor, seems pretty nice there, or if that's too far, you
may come and visit me in Edmonton, where it's warm
Be careful what you ask for. I can be on an airplane this afternoon.
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Be careful what you ask for. I can be on an airplane this afternoon.
Come on up my brutha, lots of Canadian Whisky, Canadian Beer, and Canadians.
ps Rule 1 no rooting for the Packers
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Come on up my brutha, lots of Canadian Whisky, Canadian Beer, and Canadians.
ps Rule 1 no rooting for the Packers
See my post in the SB thread....mz friz is a Steelers fan. I'll buy the pizza and wings. You Canuks eat pizza, right?
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See my post in the SB thread....mz friz is a Steelers fan. I'll buy the pizza and wings. You Canuks eat pizza, right?
WTF else goes with beer and football?
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WTF else goes with beer and football?
Well, there is Bratwurst too.....I'll suffer extreme weather conditions to put some brats on the grill....
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Well, there is Bratwurst too.....I'll suffer extreme weather conditions to put some brats on the grill....
Oh yes, but then there's always some one who can and will clear a room when his team is losing, if you get my drift
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Went out in the Vette today and as you may have guessed............ another freakin' WRX. I feel a rant coming on.
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A little off of your original topic... but when that time comes DO NOT GO CHEAP.

I have had 4 different kinds on the C5 over the years and it reacts to different tires more than any car I have ever seen. If you can foot the bill for some PS2s, get them and don't look back.
I was in weather like the pidtures in post #6 around north Lake Tahoe a few years back, and the PS2's were outstanding. They really gripped the road.
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Jesus Jon, he said BRAT NOT CAT!!
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