Soviet EV and taco chronicles + future ponderings about Fendie
- max225
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I am severely limited in the wheel/tire selection. This car has a stupid wheel size limitation due to the oversized front brakes. 19/20 wheels can't clear the brakes, and when they do they need to be this odd concave shape... Once you find a fitting wheel it may rub for any tire size bigger than 215... some report rubbing @225 others don't... Can't figure out the truth ... stock size is 205 btw.
I don't hate the stock wheels... But I would love to go wider and smaller
- max225
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Another question for the greater crowd here. I believe my in service date for the mini is 11/30/15, so... I am trying to see if I should do a oilchange and have them "check" the car while it is in warranty or just my way through...? I would only have about 3/4k miles on that oil... and I would love to get a service history from them for the car... I have it in Carfox, but I can't tell if it got serviced... 2x in 2019 or 1x... as "vehicle serviced" doesn't tell me shit.
I also need an alignment and I am assuming the charges $299 for that... which would be a yuge for me.
I also need an alignment and I am assuming the charges $299 for that... which would be a yuge for me.
- wap
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Are you sure about that? My VW diller charged $139 for my alignment.max225 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 6:40 pm Another question for the greater crowd here. I believe my in service date for the mini is 11/30/15, so... I am trying to see if I should do a oilchange and have them "check" the car while it is in warranty or just my way through...? I would only have about 3/4k miles on that oil... and I would love to get a service history from them for the car... I have it in Carfox, but I can't tell if it got serviced... 2x in 2019 or 1x... as "vehicle serviced" doesn't tell me shit.
I also need an alignment and I am assuming the charges $299 for that... which would be a yuge for me.
- CaleDeRoo
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California alignment is cleaner so it costs morewap wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 9:58 pmAre you sure about that? My VW diller charged $139 for my alignment.max225 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 6:40 pm Another question for the greater crowd here. I believe my in service date for the mini is 11/30/15, so... I am trying to see if I should do a oilchange and have them "check" the car while it is in warranty or just my way through...? I would only have about 3/4k miles on that oil... and I would love to get a service history from them for the car... I have it in Carfox, but I can't tell if it got serviced... 2x in 2019 or 1x... as "vehicle serviced" doesn't tell me shit.
I also need an alignment and I am assuming the charges $299 for that... which would be a yuge for me.
- Johnny_P
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Yeah but he makes morewap wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 9:58 pmAre you sure about that? My VW diller charged $139 for my alignment.max225 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 6:40 pm Another question for the greater crowd here. I believe my in service date for the mini is 11/30/15, so... I am trying to see if I should do a oilchange and have them "check" the car while it is in warranty or just my way through...? I would only have about 3/4k miles on that oil... and I would love to get a service history from them for the car... I have it in Carfox, but I can't tell if it got serviced... 2x in 2019 or 1x... as "vehicle serviced" doesn't tell me shit.
I also need an alignment and I am assuming the charges $299 for that... which would be a yuge for me.
- Johnny_P
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Yeah that's just small sporty car stuff. I'm surprised the STI has lasted this long without noticing a major issue. The GTI got its alignment knocked out within a year, and then the subframe kept shifting around after that and it would never hold an alignment so I just gave up on it. I've really been surprised at this car, it's rather basic and crude but it just works.
Your tiny BMW should be pretty good though.
- Johnny_P
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I don't know how I haven't bent a wheel yet. I railed a pretty bad ditch a month ago and the car seemed to take it. I did bottom the shock on it though :/
GTI had 2 bent Devners which are 17's.
Rally bred
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