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Monday, December 26th, 2011, in
The Life of MeThe rebuilding began with new windows and some new drywall. FINALLY. It was probably a month or two ago at this point, but we had some new drywall and new windows put into each of our bedrooms because of the mold and other problems. And after that was actually completed, we were able to start putting our bedroom back together again. It started with a new dresser for me. In moving our furniture around we [...]
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011, in
The Life of MeSo… we’re getting married. You might have heard that part before. And if you’ve been paying attention to Jen and I elsewhere on the internets, you’d know it goes further than that. Here’s the very short version: we are taking a road trip to Las Vegas in the spring to get married. How awesome does that sound? Pretty awesome I think. Here’s the thing though – you can follow us through our planning, preparation and [...]
Sunday, October 16th, 2011, in
Cars & RacingGoing into any autox season is usually a pretty exciting time for me… and with a brand new car that (at the time) was just 6 months old, there was a whole other level of anticipation involved. I was going from a 160-ish HP, FWD, naturally aspirated car with quite a few suspension modifications to a 100% stock, 265 HP, AWD, turbo monster. Time to throw out the rule book. Everything I had learned in [...]
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011, in
Cars & RacingBefore we begin… let’s make sure you’re up to speed. You’ll want to read this. Go ahead… I’ll wait. Back? Awesome, let’s go. So after waiting over a week to get an appointment because they only have ONE certified Subaru technician (this makes me very nervous) I dropped my car off yesterday to finally get everything fixed (and by “everything” I mean fixing the wheel bearing, replacing the steering rack, fixing the rear seat latch [...]
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011, in
Cars & RacingI bought my last car brand new… drove it over 80k miles and had 3 warranty claims in total. One was a weather seal pealing up on the rear window. The second was a problem with the alignment adjustment bolts in the rear – they had seized up. And the third was a check engine light (CEL) for a vacuum leak. All were fixed promptly and correctly. The first time. I’m at just over 11k [...]
Sunday, September 4th, 2011, in
Cars & RacingBuying a new car means, to me, that everything should be perfect. No strange noises, no weird smells, no funky behavior. And if any of those things should creep up, it’s going to the dealer to be fixed. Back in May I noticed a rattle… I actually thought it was something with my suspension. It sounded like a loose sway bar endlink or something (I’ve had that problem before, on the tC). It started on [...]
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011, in
Cars & RacingI know I filled out one survey a few months ago after buying a my new car (and I know I did a few of them years ago when I bought the tC). I don’t recall what that first one was – maybe JD Power or something. Not sure. I got another one yesterday from Maritz. This one is a “Vehicle Comparison Study.” My assumption is that they want to figure out why I bought [...]
Monday, May 16th, 2011, in
Cars & RacingIt’s been 2 weeks since we closed up the first event of the season. It’ll be about 5 weeks until we hit event #3 (6/19 at the Arnot Mall). And let’s hope that after those 5 weeks, we get a little bit better weather. To say that the 5th event was a wet one would be quite an understatement. It was a soggy one. It was beyond soggy actually. It was whatever that next level [...]
Friday, May 13th, 2011, in
Cars & RacingI wish I had something to compare all of this data to. It might put my mind a bit at ease. But here we are, just over half way through the initial 30 days of the Snapshot connected to both cars. So far I’m really not sure what to think. I guess I’ll know more on that in about 11 days (how many more days of data it says that it needs for my car). [...]
Monday, May 2nd, 2011, in
Cars & RacingIt’s a new season. With a new car. And…. not much else has changed. Well… one other thing has changed. We lost a great competitor and friend a couple weeks ago. And the event was not the same without him. We definitely missed you, Tom. But Tom wouldn’t want us to stop the show on account of him. So we proceeded as normally as we could. And turns out, the event was great. We had [...]
