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  • Birthday 09/29/1978

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    Sterling, Va
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    07 LGT wagon - Wife: 18 FXT Touring

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  1. Originally posted here also posting here since traffic there is light. Shipping would be expensive and difficult so only looking for local pick up. Located in Sterling, VA. Selling 3 headlights. They all have issues but all tabs are intact and they are all OEM. They would make great donors for new lenses. $40 each picked up only Left hand/drivers: Chrome housing, permanently yellowed, looks kind of like a smokers window. It never looks very good even after polishing, I think there's internal yellowing. Right hand/passengers: Chrome housing, original to my car. Looks decent after polishing but only lasts a month or so. Some crazing on the lens where the projector protrusion is. No bulbs. Black housing, bought online but never installed. Significant crazing on the lens but it looks pretty clear.
  2. Selling 3 headlights. They all have issues but all tabs are intact and they are all OEM. They would make great donors for new lenses. $40 each picked up only Left hand/drivers: Chrome housing, permanently yellowed, looks kind of like a smokers window. It never looks very good even after polishing, I think there's internal yellowing. Right hand/passengers: Chrome housing, original to my car. Looks decent after polishing but only lasts a month or so. Some crazing on the lens where the projector protrusion is. No bulbs. Black housing, bought online but never installed. Significant crazing on the lens but it looks pretty clear.
  3. I've been struggling with this for a few years. I finally resoldered the R1 earlier this year and it seemed to help for a while. But it came back recently once temps were consistently below 50 degrees. So I decided to finally install the spare I had swiped from the junkyard and hope it works. Well, turns out the connector doesn't fit. I'm pretty sure I got it from a 2008. So then I gave up and decided to order one. Though now it seems like it is discontinued. So the only way to get a replacement is to get a used one. And, after another trip to the junkyard today I now suspect 2007 was a 1 year only connector. I tried a 2005 and a 2008 today and neither work. It's frustrating that such an integral part of the SRS is getting so hard to find. I'd hate to see some of these cars heading to the scrapper for such a silly part.
  4. I believe it is of the Home Depot variety, so should be fairly easy to replace as needed. Probably at least saving the leading edge of the bumper cover. There were a couple interesting lettering choices, like the R on the fender and some others on the gate, but otherwise it looks like a very clean and well kept survivor.
  5. Hey guy who works at Arby's in Leesburg, you've been creepily spotted.
  6. I got the dash replaced on my '07 and my wife had her '09's done when she still had it. I've always used a sun shade as well but she didn't. Now, over the last year or so, the air bag in the steering wheel is getting sticky. And in that time it's spent about 60% of the time under a car cover.
  7. I poked around the Shell site last night and came to the same conclusion. No coupon if you buy from Napa. I also did the math and this particular deal saves you $0.30/gallon (after 6% sales tax in VA) instead of buying it from Walmart 1 gallon at a time. Definitely not worth the hassle of dealing with a huge, heavy bucket of oil. I would happily pay $1.50 to not have to have that space taken up.
  8. I finally put in new headlights after having one for nearly 3 years and the other for over a year. The change is pretty dramatic for me, I'm so used it it with all chrome. Part of why I procrastinated so long was because I wasn't sure I'd like these. I also tried to do Lamin-X (the larger reason for procrastinating), and be sure to look out for me selling the passenger side skin soon. So, after spending $62 to toss the driver's side in the trash, I have determined it's not a skill I command. It doesn't help that the tint place I used refused to do it for me last year. So I guess I should get used to spending $700 on headlights every few years. Before: After: Not pictured: the shrieking cicadas (actually, there are probably thousands in the photo)
  9. That thing looks so dang clean. Whoever had it before you obviously loved it.
  10. Thanks! None of the wheels are the ones that came with the car. I think I've replaced them all at least once. Most of them had some imperfections, some a bit minor, but I want them to look perfect - or reasonably close. I just put them back on over the weekend as they have summer tires on them. I run 18s in the winter to get a little more ground clearance. So that helps keep them looking decent too. My wife's had lots of pitting around the center caps. And Febreze is right, they're USDM '08 Outback tail lights. They were one of the very first things I did once I got it.
  11. I realized that I haven't really taken any pictures of it outside of my driveway since 2010. Never mind that these were taken in the same shopping center as that last time. I washed it and did a quick wax job so I can put the cover back on until my neighbor's tree stops dropping helicopters. The light wasn't great as the sun was setting so I messed around with the editing settings.
  12. Have I seen you tooling around before it went under the knife? I live behind the movie theater in the Safeway shopping center. A month or two ago I saw another modified blue LGT wagon driving on Route 7. I ended up right behind him and we acknowledged each other as I passed while he ducked into that shopping center. Probably going to the vape store. Amirite? The one I parked next to in the photo has Sport brand, what I assume are, winter wheels on, though I may be wrong about that. It has an Atlantic Blue tailgate garnish on the back and an exhaust but is indeed largely stock looking. I didn't think to check if it was a stick until I left. Though anyone who checks my car will be disappointed so I try not to impose those feelings on others. AND! a few weeks ago there was ANOTHER LGT wagon in that parking lot. Though the more I think about it, the more I think it might be the same blue one. It might be someone who works there. And c'mon: But I rarely see a GT. Maybe with spring more will come out. Buys AWD car, refuses to drive it in the snow. Well, actually, guilty. I no longer want to drive it even in the rain. Like it's some sort of valuable collectible. But as it is back to "daily" duty, it has to get driven in all conditions. "Daily" meaning I've driven it 800 miles in the last 12 months.
  13. Remember when being spotted was a thing? You, with the blue wagon at Walmart in Sterling, have been spotted!
  14. Not technically today, but I washed and waxed it then Plastidipped my roof rails. Adding to the many things I should have found out prior to doing something, how does it hold up exposed to the elements? After seeing how it holds up, I also plan to do the mirror arms and the front lip.
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