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Old Apr 15, 2008 | 07:18 PM
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Always burp the air out after draining the radiator!!! Never nick or even touch a cv boot when changing shocks!! And never under any circumstance..never.never.never ever turn off active handling after a rain..
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Old Apr 15, 2008 | 08:08 PM
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Here's two more

4. Your gas gauge will never be real accurate.

5. No one will ever believe what kind of gas mileage you're getting.
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Old Apr 15, 2008 | 08:13 PM
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And never under any circumstance..never.never.never ever turn off active handling after a rain..[/QUOTE]

rain, what's that? I think I heard these cars melt in the rain
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Old Apr 15, 2008 | 08:22 PM
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Never give keys to anyone !!!!
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Old Apr 15, 2008 | 08:42 PM
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Never ever take your car to Quick, Jiffy or any quick lube places.
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# 1 Never have your mother- in-law as apassenger..........................
# 2 If you have mechanical problem ask mother-in-law.
Normally they knows everything
#3 If your monthly payment is due it's very handy to have mother-in-law.......
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#1 A column lock bypass only costs $50 and it works
#2 At some stage your gas gauge will read zero so buy a bottle of Techron when its on offer
#3 The 0 to 100 time is way shorter than the time it takes for an LEO to pull his book of tickets

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the active handling will get you even if it isn't raining. turned mine off one day and puched it, went sideways instantly. mine has 450 hp at the tires though. have not tried that again since
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dont forget to latch your roof. or you will be playing frogger in real life trying to dodge traffic to pick it back up.
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Don't drive through high water with your vararam. Your engine is not a high output wet-vac
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Made the mistake of taking the active handling off on my first round performance mod's-big mistake. Now with the ECS supercharger I just have a big piece of duct tape over it.
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