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Old Jun 16, 2022 | 09:35 PM
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Could I impose for a pic if available?
If not that's ok.
I don't have FB, wife does it for family sometimes but that's her laptop and her account.
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Old Jun 16, 2022 | 11:09 PM
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Man he is lucky, I would keep it if I was him but lets see if he will do that vs cash in on the 30k+ he has there.
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Originally Posted by LexsCTJill


Saw this cool thing. Nice driver Those vans are really functional
Cool and functional may be a slight understatement in my opinion. lol
I have a inlaw family member with one of these vintage conversion vans in good condition and I always wanted one back in the day just for holiday and vacation traveling.
Velvet Captains chairs for front seats and trimmed out so nice and roomy with tables & accessories for rear passengers, like a Limo in the back.


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Thank You SW17LS, Soooooooo nice!

When you said "barn find" I was thinking the worst and maybe grass growing thru the floorboards too.
My friend had this exact car and color combo.
He traded it with over 300k miles on the clock and always bragged how many miles he had and how reliable it was, this was 10 years ago.
Today he's driving an older Cadillac Escalade with almost 200k miles and loves that car too.
From one extreme to the other. lol
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Saw this cool thing. Nice driver Those vans are really functional
It is sagging noticeably. There's either a lot of weight in that van (more than just two Huskies would add), or the rear suspension is worn out.
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So my tires came in, scheduled to install them on Wednesday. Went by to see them since I had that issue with Michelins having different sidewalls depending on size, and noticed that TireRack sent me the wrong size in the front.

Rears are right, but fronts are 20s. Glad I stopped by! Had I found out as they started to mount them I'd be pissed! Hopefully they can get me the replacement front tires before Wednesday...

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Fronts:



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Originally Posted by SW17LS
So my tires came in, scheduled to install them on Wednesday. Went by to see them since I had that issue with Michelins having different sidewalls depending on size, and noticed that TireRack sent me the wrong size in the front.

Rears are right, but fronts are 20s. Glad I stopped by! Had I found out as they started to mount them I'd be pissed! Hopefully they can get me the replacement front tires before Wednesday...

Rears:




Fronts:


Didn’t you have the same issue before? This is your 3rd set of tires?
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Picked up my wife's car, replaced the P-Zeros with PS4s, and had all 4 rims refinished.

Before and after photos, all 4 rims had roughly the same amount of curb rash, now they are brand spanking clean.

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Originally Posted by Och
Picked up my wife's car, replaced the P-Zeros with PS4s, and had all 4 rims refinished.

Before and after photos, all 4 rims had roughly the same amount of curb rash, now they are brand spanking clean.
Looking good. I like those wheels a lot.

I guess today's the day of curb rash repair. Got some touched up on the wife's Bimmer this morning.


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Looking good. I like those wheels a lot.

I guess today's the day of curb rash repair. Got some touched up on the wife's Bimmer this morning.
March 8 is celebrated worldwide as the International Womens Days, it is roughly the equivalent of Valentines Day here in USA, but even more popular in many countries. This is what I sent my wife on March 8, she was pretty pissed.

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Originally Posted by Och
Picked up my wife's car, replaced the P-Zeros with PS4s, and had all 4 rims refinished.

Before and after photos, all 4 rims had roughly the same amount of curb rash, now they are brand spanking clean.



Beautiful rims.
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Beautiful rims.
Lets hope she can keep them like that, judging from prior history, highly unlikely. The curbed two of them pretty much the first week we had the car, then curbed two more shortly after. It is what it is.
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Originally Posted by SW17LS
So my tires came in, scheduled to install them on Wednesday. Went by to see them since I had that issue with Michelins having different sidewalls depending on size, and noticed that TireRack sent me the wrong size in the front.

Rears are right, but fronts are 20s. Glad I stopped by! Had I found out as they started to mount them I'd be pissed! Hopefully they can get me the replacement front tires before Wednesday...
This is the post pandemic quality control for you, nobody gives a damn anymore. In my business I have so many wrong shipments, it's absurd.
Old Jun 17, 2022 | 04:31 PM
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This is the post pandemic quality control for you, nobody gives a damn anymore. In my business I have so many wrong shipments, it's absurd.
We get delivery screw ups at least 3 days a week. The guys who load up the slabs of granite/marble/quartz in some warehouse don't give a crap what's on the truck. Caesarstone was at our shop twice this week picking up slabs that were supposed to go somewhere else.

That ultra low mileage LS a bunch of posts up is insane!
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March 8 is celebrated worldwide as the International Womens Days, it is roughly the equivalent of Valentines Day here in USA, but even more popular in many countries. This is what I sent my wife on March 8, she was pretty pissed.
Ironically I curbed my wheels on my 2016 IS 300 more than my wife's curbed wheels on anything, but for some reason this BMW is a problem. I can't afford to curb the wheels on my '21 IS since they're chrome. Dark chrome, thank you very much...
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Originally Posted by arentz07
Ironically I curbed my wheels on my 2016 IS 300 more than my wife's curbed wheels on anything, but for some reason this BMW is a problem. I can't afford to curb the wheels on my '21 IS since they're chrome. Dark chrome, thank you very much...
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