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wouldn't you clean it first?

Old Aug 11, 2005 | 11:59 PM
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I find it strage that with a pretty clean car it looks like he just took it off roading.


and horrible gas milage
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Old Aug 12, 2005 | 12:00 AM
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well when you are muddin with the bonnie and reving it to get up those mountains it does mess up gas miliage a little
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Old Aug 12, 2005 | 12:18 AM
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most ppl dont use there trips for mpg... thousand bucks said its not right..
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Old Aug 12, 2005 | 07:26 AM
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ya my trip has been stuck at 9 miles ever since i got my car. oh well dont bother me to much and if i reset it it will go 9 miles and stay there.
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Might have a dirt driveway and no way to change that. I owned black on a dirt driveway. Car looked great til you saw the sneakers.
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Old Aug 12, 2005 | 09:21 AM
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ya my trip has been stuck at 9 miles ever since i got my car. oh well dont bother me to much and if i reset it it will go 9 miles and stay there.
y a me too, the gears strip in the plastic rollers...its a chronic problem
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Old Aug 12, 2005 | 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by BillBoost37
Might have a dirt driveway and no way to change that. I owned black on a dirt driveway. Car looked great til you saw the sneakers.

thats what im thinking also.......... I know. I have a dirt driveway.
I hates rain but then again I park right next to a garden hose at work
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Old Aug 12, 2005 | 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Gumball
Originally Posted by BillBoost37
Might have a dirt driveway and no way to change that. I owned black on a dirt driveway. Car looked great til you saw the sneakers.

thats what im thinking also.......... I know. I have a dirt driveway.
I hates rain but then again I park right next to a garden hose at work
dirt... in quincy.......? i thought it was all buildings or asphault.
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Old Aug 12, 2005 | 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by 1993 SLE
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ya my trip has been stuck at 9 miles ever since i got my car. oh well dont bother me to much and if i reset it it will go 9 miles and stay there.
y a me too, the gears strip in the plastic rollers...its a chronic problem
wow, I thought I was the only one that had that issue. Mine will go to mile 001.0 then stops. Pissed me off cause it was working fine until one day it just stopped working.
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Old Aug 12, 2005 | 11:34 PM
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moms odo and trip quit a week after she got her 91 SSE and we even changed out the cluster and it still doesnt work, oh well, thats gonna be the spare car soon, but that is still strange that they do that.
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