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Please someone kill my SVX
Good lord. The suspension is getting UNBEARABLE. I'm getting it looked at next monday...ugh... its just BANGING and RATTLING and it feels like its just going to fall off the car. It's really awful. Ugh. I don't care how much it costs to fix it, I cannot stand this!
- Rob PS: IF its struts, I'm saving for your kit Porter! |
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Can I come kill it?
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Lwin M. Maung (Member # 147) Current SVX: • NONE Previous SVXes: •1994 LE Barcelona Red 107k • 1992 LS-L Pearl White 143k • 1994 LSi Bordeaux Pearl 220k • 1992 LS-L Ebony Pearl 184k • 1992 LS-L Liquid Silver 145k • 1992 LS-L Liquid Silver 102k • 1992 LS-L Ebony Pearl 123k Other current cars:•2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee Black If at first you don't succeed, CHEAT!
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Damn, Rob, I thought you had all the kinks worked out of your SVX around the time of your honeymoon. What happened since then? Could the roads and their potholes be any worse in WI than they are in PA?
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Pearl '92 LS-L 179K (Historic 1st 5-speed SVX) Mods: 5-speed, 4.11's, Group-N motor mounts, dual Magnaflows, cone air filter, Kenwood MP-228 CD/Receiver, white-faced gauges, '97 grill, custom window tinting. Ebony Mica '92 LS 80K Oct 2002 - Dec 2004: Victim of theft. She served me well. You can tell the lack of craftsmanship by the wrinkles in the duct tape. |
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What he said.
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Lwin M. Maung (Member # 147) Current SVX: • NONE Previous SVXes: •1994 LE Barcelona Red 107k • 1992 LS-L Pearl White 143k • 1994 LSi Bordeaux Pearl 220k • 1992 LS-L Ebony Pearl 184k • 1992 LS-L Liquid Silver 145k • 1992 LS-L Liquid Silver 102k • 1992 LS-L Ebony Pearl 123k Other current cars:•2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee Black If at first you don't succeed, CHEAT!
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MI has both PA and WI beat by a long shot. I've lived in all three states, so I speak from some experience.
Look, the roads in MI are so bad that they were a major issue at the gubernatorial debates last year. Deteriorating roads are frequently on the news. Potholes open up and cause major traffic back-ups as literally dozens of people pull over to fix flats. One time, while driving just outside Detroit, I saw a couple of kids kicking chunks of a bridge onto the freeway traffic below. CHUNKS of bridges frequently fall onto traffic, anyway, and make the news. I'm not kidding. I bet the roads in Baghdad are considerably better. One of the main problems MI has is the way they tend to fix their roads. They lay a thin strip of asphalt down. Then that asphalt starts to come off in chunks. So they fill those holes with some loose asphalt and call it fixed. That loose asphalt gets pushed to the back of the hole by the traffic and ends up being a hole and a bump. MI roads are absolutely the worst I've seen in any state. And I include VT - only a quarter of VT's roads are paved, but the roads which are paved are done right.
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Nevertheless, there are times that our WI roads really suck. Around here, we have two seasons: Summer and Road Construction. Although, I've not been on a bridge that has fallen apart or crumbles. Back in my home town, we do have a couple bridges that are a bit too low (due to repaving the highway beneath) and so semi trailers smash into the bridges (now and then). Eric
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Eric 1994 Bordeaux Pearl SVX LSi "The SVX — Where, they wondered, do you put the kayak?" |
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try south jersey. They charge a toll on every other road and I dont think they paved any in 15 years. North jersey must be getting all the money. If it wasnt for the low a$$ speed limits (25 mph on dual lines come on) I dont think my kidneys could handle speeding enough for a ticket.
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I had a chunk of an overpass fall on my RX about a month ago and smash the windshield.
Mike |
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Basically, the roads in madison are complete ****E. It's too busy so they never fix anything. I'm pretty sure it's my strut mounts, but lately I've been harder on my car because I no longer enjoy driving it. :\ Its loud, and every time i hit a 'seam' in the road, there's a big 'bang' followed by a rattle. It's annoying. This is EXACTLY what happened to my neon. It was great initially, but at around 100k it drove EXACTLY like this, which was one of the primary reasons I wanted to sell it.
But I'm not selling my SVX. I'm dedicated to continue to dump money into it, because UNLIKE the neon, and IGNORING what KBB says, the SVX is worth a lot. IT's rare, a pure bred, engineered beyond comprehension, and really freaking cool. - Rob |
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I have to agree with Pockets on MI roads. In Flint especially they have no money to repair the roads. There are many places where there are voids in the new pavement and the old brick or stone can be seen.
My poor SVX has been beaten upon by the roads of Flint. Worst part is the speed limits are not all that slow and I bottomed out. My car now has a really annoying (but not serious) exhaust leak.
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Rob, I've not driven my SVX in SIX (6) weeks! If that slightly alters your unhappiness. Apparently, I am waiting for some "small little bits of thing" that goes in my transmission.
I might have to hitchhike home for thanksgiving.
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Eric 1994 Bordeaux Pearl SVX LSi "The SVX — Where, they wondered, do you put the kayak?" |
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