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Old 07-10-2021, 09:09 PM
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Yeah. We are waiting for the new rear brake pads to show up. (I accidentally ordered a front set which of course got here in 2 days versus the rears that should be here on Monday, a week later. Sigh

At least the new grill emblem arrived today, as well as a brand new owners manual I found on ebay.

And we solved the blue tooth music problem. We just bought a $26 bluetooth transmiiter that goes in the lighter socket and then relays the music from your phone to your radio on the 88.3 FM position. It works great. Works so good, I'm gonna order another to use in the old cars.

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Old 07-11-2021, 09:26 PM
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The rear brake pads showed up this morning and the boy and I installed them. It's amazing how interested he is in his car now and wants to do all sorts of stuff to it since the car is "cool" versus his old Honda Civic :-)

BTW we sold the Honda in about 30 seconds for $1200 more than we paid for it 4 years ago. A colleague of mine bought it as a first car for his daughter to drive at college. So we ended up just about breaking even since I spent around $1000 on brakes, shocks, tune up and tires over the years.

Another comical note. My son has been complaining (prior to replacing the rear pads) of a high pitched squeel when the brakes were applied. I thought he was nuts. I couldn't hear it and neither could my wife. My son recorded the noise with his phone. Neither the wife nor I could hear it on the recording either. So we tried an experiment: He played the recording for his sister (she's 26) and is very sensitive to high pitched noises. I told him to play it for her but stand behind her when he did it. I also told him that when the alleged sound came up he was to raise one finger so I knew it was playing even though I couldn't hear it.

Well what do you know? His sister immediately heard the sound and covered her ears at the exact same time he raised his finger. Of course she then yelled at me for letting her brother pull this stunt on her since she immediately got a migraine from the sound.

So the morale of the story is that old people can't hear certain very high frequency noises!

I do remember some news story several years ago about a convenience store playing high pitched mosquito sounds that only teenagers could hear, in order to prevent them from loitering in front of their store.

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Old 07-14-2021, 03:26 PM
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Looks great! As fun as my '74 Camaro was in high school, it didn't stand a chance against my classmates with the "then-new" 2010+ 5th gen Camaros.

I don't see it mentioned yet, but that car also has a 2014/15 Z28-style spoiler added to it! That really makes the rear look a lot better than stock.

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Old 07-14-2021, 03:49 PM
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Congrats. I like my 5th gens still. 15 plus year old Technology but still works fine.
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Old 07-14-2021, 04:34 PM
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We went to my buddy’s garage last night and went to install the new tire sensors but his tire machine won’t handle the 20” rim. We did find out that the rims have sensors already but they are the 430 frequency units for 2016-17, and are not compatible with a 2014 system. So we still need to install the 315 frequency units I bought. I have an appointment with a reputable tire shop to install them and balance the set tomorrow morning.

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Oh, and the boy is having fun using that recording of the brake squeal as an “old person detector”. He played it for some coworkers at the office and no one over 35 could hear it.
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Congrats on the car purchase! Looks real nice. My fist car was a '63 VW.

Funny trick to play on Sis, but it told you what you wanted to know! And yes, as we get older we lose the higher frequencies. I have a signal generator and now and then I test my hearing. Getting more difficult to hear above 14-15k. Even though I can hear it, the level that I hear it at is reduced. Probably too many times standing near the starting line and in front of too many concert PA systems.
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Old 07-14-2021, 08:59 PM
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Too many front row seats at those darn Lawrence Welk concerts back in the day! Man he could crank out some mean Polka music!
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Success!. I went to the tire place today and they removed the old 430 MHz snsors and installed the 315 MHz sensors. They then removed the old stick-on weights and rebalanced the set. All the wheels then got calibrated according to their position on the car. So all is well now! And it turned 86,000 while I was pulling into the gas station to fill her up.

She sure does drive really nice now.

(and yes they all read 37 psi by the time I got home)
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Old 07-16-2021, 01:50 PM
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5th gens are good, reliable cars. I just sold my 2015 SS 1LE with 104k miles on it. Only thing I changed on it were brake pads and rotors. Everything else mechanical on that car is factory original. Clutch included. One of the best cars I've ever owned. It was my 4th 5th gen and I would buy another one in a heartbeat.

Like with every other used car, just look for one that you can tell was well taken care of. There are plenty out there that have been ragged out and it's usually pretty easy to spot those.

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