Jerboa113
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it even has a peanutbutter interior.. He should have painted his door jambs chocolate brown. In fact I cant tell from here.. but he may have.
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tint costs too much..
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oh but he has the fake fender vent.. things... that every busted ass car in cobb county has on it.. so that must mean hes cool..
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only the stock bezel with the stock buttons looks stock. Because thast the only stock configuration that is offered. I had an m1-atx on mine.. I was a little irritated that its jumpers were 15 seconds, 30 seconds, or 30 minutes.. you couldn't set it for like 2 minutes to shut down when remote was killed. My other problem was where it was mounted it got kinda hot (on top of spare tire) so I had big fans on it which vibrated a tiny bit and annoyed rear passnegers. ny other complaint was that it was simply too slow.. At the time I didnt have access to the program to strip unneeded crap out of windows so booting took a full minute.. and that was just too long. Another problem I ran into was if it broke.. I was the only one who could fix it.. cos I was the one who built it. I suppose tahts been a hard lesson I've learned in many mods on this car.. I had the same problem when my HIDs went out. "stay stock say happy" as Bosco says.
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well, I'm a perfectionist thats very self critical of the work that I do.. so I wanted it to look 100% stock.. or not be there at all. I kept spending more and more money and time on trying to acheive this.. basically trying to do what subaru already did with a team of electrical engineers and design engineers with me and 2 friends.. and it simply was not working out. So I took it out, sold the carputer to a guy here in ATL for $300. He was going to put it in his ride. I hope it worked out for him. Seemed like a pretty cool guy. I think he said he had a grand cherokee. Lots of room for a carputer in there. The only thing left is broken pieces of xenarc screens, the factory nav bezel and a coiled up VGA cable in my trunk.. oh yea.. and the gps antenna is still in there.. but I never use it cos I have an iphone now.
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ya know now that you mention it i'm not sure where mine is. maybe its in the arm rest..
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I always run an inline fuse on any device plugged into a cig lighter.. even tho it also has a fuse in the car. thats a good placement idea as long as it doesn't produce a lot of heat. if it does you might need to rig up some kind of fan.
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it looks very good so far. I ran power right off the battery, but when I did I had substantial alternator whine.. I would recommend using something off the fuse box or a cig ligther.. you may still have whine if you do that but it should be less. what is your input to the stereo? Do you have a newer car with factory aux in?
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it has 4 CV boots that could fail, 4 wheel bearings (at least 4) 3 diffs, U-joints between the tranny and the rear diff that can wear out, and an oil and water cooled turbo with a cat before it.. plus its an interference engine.. theres just too much risk in incurring thousands of dollars in repairs with a single part failing to really keep it in the high risk long hauls.
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I have a stock navi bezel in a box in my garage along with a bunch of other parts. That was my project, but it never got off the ground. After more than $3k in expenditure on the project I still had nothing to show.. so I got out of the hobby. now I'm trying to think ahead 2 years.. this car will have 100k miles on it by then and it will be time to retire it.
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what you could do (is what I planned to do) is chop up the stock system and put your own touchscreen in there.. but.. if you have a stock system that works I'd understand why no one would want to do that.. the screen is like $900 new from SOA.
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site doesn't know how to correctly check for flash player version. design fail.
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ny times FTL. I'd rather read WSJ or one of the other 13 or so news sites on my igoogle.. except usatoday. hate that paper.. but I keep them around cos the "discussion" parts of the articles make me laugh. being a vampire would suck.. (no pun intended but.. I'll roll with it if it makes you chuckle.) I like daylight and garlic. werewolf would be better.. if you could learn to control it..
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hrmm.. stake through the heart, holy water, cross, daylight.. heard of all of that.. never a brick in the mouth tho.
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^ so thats why there's a hole in the Ozone?
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this was supposed to be a chuck norris joke thread not a "bruce lee is better" thread. bruce lee is dead. sorry.. he lost. no matter how awesome he was.. his heart exploded or something.. and hes gone.
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then lee mysteriously died. perhaps norris used a delay punch..
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Bruce Lee's last movie was enter the dragon (it was an awesome movie) iirc he fought Chuck Norris in this movie and defeated him. Shortly after this Bruce Lee died.
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the only man to win in a fight against chuck norris was Bruce Lee. (this is not true but suspend your knowledge for a second.) and he died shortly after.
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f1 what atre you using for aux input? Or does your radio have stock aux in? I am using the jazzy mod and I have mad ground loop even from my iphone being powered off the cig lighter. its better now than it was, but most of the time I leave the thing unplugged because its so loud. I dont want to have to use a GLI just for this, but I guess I dont even understand why its even a factor.
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yea its just something that tells the system to turn on. You can use one of those spade crimps.
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iirc the fuse panel has a 12v line you can tap. you can use the sig lighter 12v for acc since it powrs off with the car.