Recent content by GerardPRO5

damn. I haven't posted on here in a while. anyway, filipino here. my wife is taiwanese. we're having a baby in september...he's going to be half taiwanese, half filipino. anyway, if you know you're filipino, but you're still not sure, check this out: http://members.aol.com/ATINYROCK/page25.htm

yep. Maxim FHM Stuff Razor PC Photo XBN Outside Fast Company Desktop Engineering House Beautiful Better Homes and Gardens Working Mother, Parenting, American Baby (for the mom-to-be and the baby-to-be) Redbook, Seventeen (never signed up for these, but getting them anyway) I know I'm getting...

ok. if you break a law, prepare to pay the correct consequence, and accept it. if you admit to breaking the law, refuse to pay the consequence, but fake acceptance of it, then share your methodology as a legitimate means of bypassing the law, then to me, that's not cool. I did take the...

I sure wish the government and local law enforcement felt the same way about the levity of the law as you do. A particular offense will almost always result in a particular penalty. If you have illegal tint, you'll either receive a fix-it ticket (which they don't give here in California...

the funny thing is that it does matter. I believe that laws are created for a purpose...tint laws for your own safety and for the cops' safety...emissions laws for the environment...crosswalk signals for the safety of the pedestrian... if you go ahead and do what you know is wrong, then you...

I could have sworn I wrote this in my first post: I'm not trying to start a flame war... not me. I wouldn't fake a receipt and pass it off as real. at most, it's a band-aid fix.

I'm not questioning your decency or your values or your ethical/moral outlook. I'm just saying that boldly lying to the law enforcement officials is not the smartest thing to do and in all honesty, your idea of keeping tint by faking a receipt is pretty low and sophomoric. in case you're...

lying to legally do anything is always wrong in principle. just because there is not a victim directly associated with illegal tint does not mean that it's OK to do it. let me put it this way, if you do go to the tint shop and they give you a fake receipt saying that your front tint has...

hey jflo, so technically, that's your parents' garage. where's yours? (spin) here's my garage (yes it's mine, since I pay the mortgage for the house a few feet away from it):

so basically, you're going to lie about your tint and think you can get away with it, and while you're at it, you're going to lie about requiring an exemption from an optometrist? damn. I don't know you...but you're probably the kind of person who also lies about being disabled so you can...

if you pay this much (probably $120 per tire shipped), might as well go to a local Discount Tire, get them to price match Tire Rack, and have the lifetime balance/rotation and mounting thrown in.

no problems with fitment. the 205's don't really appear any wider due to the 6" wheel.

anybody here know of a good independent mechanic around Irvine/Tustin/Costa Mesa/etc for my Protege5? I need my 30K service done soon and I can do it myself, but I would like it objectively checked out thoroughly by someone other than me. I'm so used to the car that everything appears normal...

a progressive scan DVD player is useless unless you have an HD-ready TV. I've noticed a difference with using component-level video inputs with my Toshiba DVD player, but saw no difference with a progressive-scan DVD player.

I'll have to agree with AlbinoMuntjac. there's a lot of stupid talk here and it's a bit scary... however, just because this is a car enthusiast's board doesn't mean that the people here have to be knowledgeable. if you're going to post something, do a little bit of research first. if you're...