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What have you done to your 3rd Gen today?

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Old December-12th-2007, 05:46 PM
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I get beat by soccer mom vans, but they don't look as cool. lol
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Old December-13th-2007, 09:50 PM
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i installed break pads and rotors. the idiots at car quest gave me the wrong rear rotors though, possibly MSP ones? I told them it wasnt the "SPD" model too.

Let's hope i can return them despite them being painted silver already to prevent rust
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Old December-14th-2007, 06:09 PM
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Installed a CounterAct rust module and Philips CrystalVision Extreme headlight bulbs, really bright, very slight blue tinge.
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Old December-14th-2007, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Shasta
Installed a CounterAct rust module and Philips CrystalVision Extreme headlight bulbs, really bright, very slight blue tinge.
if there's a slight blue tinge, they lied about the color temp. Thought they were 4000K?
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Old December-15th-2007, 12:58 AM
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Glass is tinted blue. The slight blue is mainly inside the housing itself, they are very white compared to the Silverstars.

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Old December-15th-2007, 11:33 AM
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oh since I don't think I posted on here about it yesterday, I got my car back

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Old December-15th-2007, 03:04 PM
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Awesome stuff! That car will never die, haha!
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Old December-15th-2007, 03:56 PM
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^^ it isn't done yet, the body shop has a LOT of explaining to do and the car will be gone for at least a week or two to have work re-done on THEIR dime.

more info on all the problems here:
http://www.themazdaforum.com/showthr...=6287#post6287

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Old December-15th-2007, 04:28 PM
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^^ Looks good from the back. Nice and clean.
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Old December-15th-2007, 06:39 PM
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what was the permanent marker trying to cover up? the damaged tint was on the rear window so why the marker on the side?
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Old December-15th-2007, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by amsgator
what was the permanent marker trying to cover up? the damaged tint was on the rear window so why the marker on the side?
way more tint damage on that side window. They had to remove both of those and replace the seals (chassis damage stuff).
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Old December-16th-2007, 08:03 AM
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ah. and they thought marker would cover it up. haha thats hilarious
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Old December-16th-2007, 05:30 PM
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absolutely nothing , snow storm here today, she's been in the garage all weekend, gotta get to the "touchless" soon!
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Old December-17th-2007, 05:50 AM
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Originally Posted by bazooka joe
absolutely nothing , snow storm here today, she's been in the garage all weekend, gotta get to the "touchless" soon!
crap, how bad? People gonna be able to make it to work? I just want some heads up as to how screwed we're going to be at work today lol
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Old December-17th-2007, 10:03 AM
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^^ bad, from what my parents in CT reported. It was some major storm, most of those noreaster things don't hit Rochester but this one did. We normally just get our lake effect snow. Now there's 14" of snow, and the plow goon only plowed the top half of my driveway, leaving a pile of solid ice/snow blocking me in the garage.

I'm gonna guess lots of people won't make it to work :P

prepare for the worst
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