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If you don't get chains really tight (which is often hard to do alongside the road or out on the trail), they expand out a bit and start hitting the wheel well. Given that there is not a whole lot of clearance to begin with our our wheel wells, these might damage the vehicle. To climb in snow...

Modern sports-oriented cars have large rims / low profile tires for two reasons--they look cool, and offer more precise handling, meaning that during a sudden turn the car starts turning slightly earlier. To understand the handling dynamics, picture a tire/wheel looking at it from the front...

+1 on downsize. Tires are a lot cheaper, plus with more sidewall, the ride is smoother.

We have a gripe-knob? Someone's must be turned up to 11!

Make sure your parking brake is fully released.

You might be able to make a case for it in a really humid climate...but in the desert where you are...not worth it. There's nothing magic about nitrogen (which is already 79% of air)...the main difference is that separating out the nitrogen also separates out the moisture. Moisture in the tire...

http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123835096-16-quot-aftermarket-rims-suggestions I put 16's on mine. See the thread above, which includes a picture.

After mostly city driving, over this past weekend I took a 100+ mile trip, and set the destination in the GPS. Initially the GPS estimated that this 2.5 hour trip would take 4 hours. In most other GPS units, the estimated time of arrival (ETA) recalculates frequently, based on your current...

Product reviews brought it to my attention. Pre-purchase research (including finding this site) increased my interest. The test drive sealed the deal.

Not viable for Alaska, though! From their website, shipping for one oil change kit: $116.45 for Priority Mail $151 for UPS ground $250-$380 for UPS air For that kind of money, I guess that I'll keep using the tears of virgin unicorns.

"The Batmobile", for its pushbutton start.

Use a breaker bar to break the nut free, and then you can use the driver to remove and mostly install the lug nut. Use the breaker bar, or better yet, a torque wrench to re-seat the nut.

Understood. However, water is leaking in somewhere due to an opening into the car's interior. Whether the leak it is at the edge of the windscreen or through the firewall into the engine compartment should not matter, as far as locating it. The technology I proposed might help someone locate...

Decades ago when I worked in an automotive glass shop, we had an ultrasound transmitter we could place in the car, and then a receiver wand we would pass around the edge of the replaced windshield to help identify leaks. If the dealership can't find the source of the leak, you may want to...

I think it's the law that factory fog lights are interlocked to only be able to come on with the low beams, and turn off with the high beams. So, I think you'll have to rewire, or at least jumper something, in order to make this work. Perhaps you could install the wiring harness from an...

As others have said, it won't give you any appreciative improvement. If you look at the airflow versus engine RPM curves that K&V uses, you'll notice that the only place there's any perceivable difference is around the top of the RPM range. Particularly with the way that the transmission in...

Trey, thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, this one is "Humpty Dumpty" broken, and will require a new outer shell.

We managed to break the case on our 2014 GT key. Does anyone know of a place where you can get just the outer shell (without having to fork over for the electrical innards)? Thanks.

I think they are feeding you a line of B.S. Did you try Googling Karr alarms? http://www.city-data.com/forum/automotive/1552821-pros-cons-negligible-difference-having-car.html The only thing car alarms do is annoy your neighbors. There are so many false alarms that nobody takes these...

[/URL][/IMG] [/URL][/IMG] [/URL][/IMG] We ended up going with Motegi Racing rims, mostly because it was one of the choices available at the store where I bought the winter tires. The rims are silver, but currently dirty in these photos. The salesman steered me away from one brand for this...