Purdue University

[pballpromasta]

Yes i do, well i did last year. I lived in Crestview apartments (down that street)...a different place than where i had cable originally set up, but in the general vicinity. I now live some place else but my girlfriend lives in those apartments, so i just walk to her place. Off street parking is a rarity around campus. The other night at a party i had my spoiler ripped off. Its dangling and has scratched up my paint job on the trunk lid. Had to pick up another one. To the paint shop i go!

[alwarnecke]

Wow, can't believe I've been using Vortex for so long and haven't found this thread, glad to see some other boilers on vortex!

[quimorg]

Pballpromasta, think i just saw you blasting your music right past where i live (by salisbury)

[pballpromasta]

Ya man, im always jammin. Yes, that probably was me. How you doin?

To the one who is old to the forum but new to the thread, Welcome

[OstTrefftWest]

Welcome to the thread. I'd been on the Vortex for a few months before "heysuperman" IM'ed me to invite me over. (Look what he started!)

[quimorg]

yeah welcome,

I have been good, tons of work, little time off, but other than that ok.

sorry to read about the spoiler man, bummer

[farfromugen]

Hey Oscar, have you ever posted a pic of your car? I can't recall, I'm always interested in MK3 GTIs

Speaking of which, I actually brought mine out into the open the last few days in a row...feels good to get her out.

[blue70beetle]

Must be the nice weather that we finally have (after two months of misery). All kinds of neat rides showing up at work lately. A Bug-gatti (VW-based Bugatti Type 35 replica), an old Chrysler Imperial (late '50s - back when they actually looked good), an early El Camino SS, a 914, a Can-Am Spyder (honestly, those are ghey), an F800GS (those are almost as awesome as an R1200GSA, but not quite).

[n0rdicalex.]

i rolled mine out from my grandparents garage too! gave it some fresh air and ran it for a bit - go figure, no CEL now that it's totaled.

but, i picked up a new rear beam, cleaned it up, primered it, and threw one coat of paint on today. final coat will go on saturday sometime, then i can swap my stuff over. i'm having withdrawal.

year old photo:

[quimorg]

That's the car, i don't think i ever posted one though.

[stealthcheetah]

Hey all. I saw a green Cabrio with Montes the other day and it looked pretty good. Anybody know the owner? And does anyone wanna have a meet sometime?

Pics taken at about a week or two ago here at Purdue

[quimorg]

yeah a meeting would be nice to meet all these VW people at purdue

[farfromugen]

Cars look good guys!

I remember talking about the color of your car Oscar, really is one of my favorites.
We have slacked off in the GTG department this year Seems like a good idea to have one soon!

MK3s are becoming kind of rare and I see very few roll through the service dept...too bad because I have a bit of an edge when working on them.

BTW Jeff, in case you didn't see it, the Eurovan runs again!

[quimorg]

do you know if mike raisor has the power steering fluids?

[pballpromasta]

Purdue dub tailgate for next weeks game? Lol. have our own lil car show in the intramural fields. Ive got a, not so big, pretty cheap, college edition grill, corn hole / bags, and there are plenty of liquor stores to go around.

I never understood going to the dealership to buy things like fluids. I know dubs are finicky, but the **** at autozone works just as good for me.

Oscar, did you ever get that leak fixed? Still love that color.

Its getting cold boys. Coming close to slapping on the winters and raising it.

[quimorg]

yeah i got it fixed, after a battle under the freaking car, but yeah,

about the fluid, i was just wondering, if i needed the stock or replacement was just fine

[OstTrefftWest]

I think I have an unopened can of CHF-11 (which I think is the right PS fluid) gathering dust on my shelf. Want it?

[quimorg]

I think I have an unopened can of CHF-11 (which I think is the right PS fluid) gathering dust on my shelf. Want it?

yes

[blue70beetle]

FWIW, I have never bought a fluid of any kind for a car or truck from a dealer. I have, in the past, bought oil for bikes from the dealer, but that was before I knew more - turns out the reason you can't use just any old oil is the friction modifiers in a lot of automotive oils will screw up the wet clutches in motorcycles, but if you pay attention to the bottle and don't buy one that says "energy conserving" on the API seal (where it tells what service class the oil is) you can just use whatever oil you want. I run Rotella-T in my XR.

Are there any fluids that absolutely must come from a dealer? For any of the special coolants, etc., is there any reason a person couldn't just flush the system and dump in whatever they want? It seems that's what everyone does with the GM Dex-Cool that a lot of people believe contributes to premature intake manifold gasket failure - they flush it out and run standard green coolant.

[quimorg]

good to know

[farfromugen]

That gasket failure on GMs was due to faulty design...we went over that in our classes a few years ago. But, yeah, there are reasons to go with dealer (or brand approved) fluids. Certain fluids contain lubricants for the seals and materials used in those cars specific systems, use another type and it may attack them. Big reason for VWs to use specific coolants (G12 etc) is namely the fact that 80% of our cooling systems are plastic, and though I can't remember the name of the type of rubber seals, I know that they get attacked by the green stuff and very soon after most change to it or add it to the system, stuff starts leaking and failing (personal experience confirms this as well). As far as oil goes, VW has a list of rating approved oils, but those can be had outside of the dealership as long as you follow the API/quality standards approved by the make/model. I tend to not question the manufactures recommendations for their engines, YMMV.

Oh, and yes, Raisors should have your P/S fluid, Jeff can get you hooked up with the right stuff.

[blue70beetle]

And in GM's defense, that must be an incredibly difficult application to design for, when you consider the directions everything moves as it expands. The set on our old Suburban made it to nearly 150k before it was leaking bad enough that it had to be changed (but once it heated up, it didn't leak a drop!), and the Fel-Pro gasket set I put in was starting to leak again a year later. That was about the time we sold it - I wasn't interested in doing nine hours of work to replace them again, and we were planning to replace it with something else anyway.

Granted, all the "big three" have been designing for this application for decades, with good success overall, but it would be easy to get it wrong too. Because of the angles involved, you have to design gaskets that can accommodate some sliding motion between the intake and head surfaces as the engine heats up, and the use of aluminum and cast iron together will only exacerbate the problem.

[heysuperman]

anyone have any recommendations on affordable double din gps/bluetooth set ups? i'm looking at pioneer avic x920bt

[quimorg]

is anybody here in the chemistry profession?

[Foxtrot]

anyone have any recommendations on affordable double din gps/bluetooth set ups? i'm looking at pioneer avic x920bt

Nope .. I use my phone for GPS...

and no Chemistry for me... I just draw stuff

[heysuperman]

Nope .. I use my phone for GPS...

doesn't everyone's phone have gps these days? :p
i just want a nice double din touchscreen with bluetooth. the gps is icing on the cake.

[quimorg]

doesn't everyone's phone have gps these days? :p
i just want a nice double din touchscreen with bluetooth. the gps is icing on the cake.

Probably, i bought a gps like 2 weeks later i bought a phone with gps and never used the gps i bought again.

not sure where it is

[heysuperman]

i think bill's convinced me...found a single din sony w/bluetooth for $140 shipped. of course everytime i look at that empty space i'll remember...it was bill's idea well, sorta

[blue70beetle]

doesn't everyone's phone have gps these days? :p
i just want a nice double din touchscreen with bluetooth. the gps is icing on the cake.

My phone doesn't have GPS, and if I get too far from my house, it just stops working.

FWIW, the GPS features on the iPhone suck so bad we bought a TomTom. Aimee's phone has put us in the wrong place more times than it has put us in the right place, and if you don't know off the top of your head which direction you're going, you're screwed, especially if you're in a city and can't just turn around.

[heysuperman]

My phone doesn't have GPS, and if I get too far from my house, it just stops working.

FWIW, the GPS features on the iPhone suck so bad we bought a TomTom. Aimee's phone has put us in the wrong place more times than it has put us in the right place, and if you don't know off the top of your head which direction you're going, you're screwed, especially if you're in a city and can't just turn around.

havent had to many issues with my iphone gps. i find it to be very accurate. love the iphone 4. i use it daily for work. we do have a magellan for the car. i dont really like using my iphone gps while driving so ab in car gps is nice.

[Foxtrot]

I didn't say you couldn't get a double din setup.. just couldn't help you with the GPS part Put a nice pocket in the empty space and deal with it

Android uses Google Maps for the GPS so it's as accurate as Google Maps are. Which is to say it usually gets me with in 2-3 houses of where I'm trying to get. For instance if I put in home its off by about 2 houses... *shrug*...

[blue70beetle]

AFAIK, iPhone uses Google maps too, but the interface is horrid. It will do handy things like drop the house number from an address and give you directions to a random place on the same road, but completely on the opposite side of the city it's in. Or if you're in the middle of a city, it will say stupid crap like, "head east on _______ street" and not tell you what direction east is relative to where you are going. IDK if they have added voice directions to the iPhone 4, but the previous models don't have it unless you buy an app, and at that point, I'd just rather have a TomTom, because then we can both use it when we need to.

It's awesome, BTW - if you pull off the route into a parking lot, it shows directions on the screen for how to get back onto the route, even though you're not on roads. In the middle of a trip, it will tell you it has found a route that will cut off x minutes, do you want to take it?

[heysuperman]

i dont use it for directions. it's all based on google maps. i use it to found out where i am and where things are around me. i can also use it to find structures in hybrid mode. the aerial view is perfect for this. i use the magellan for directions. there is a tom tom app and magellan app i thought about buying. the reviews aren't bad for it.

[OstTrefftWest]

Yeah, Google Navigation on Android works well for me, both for accurately detecting location and giving generally-good directions. (It's ignorant about closures and detours, but it'll re-route you in real time, so if you just turn off the route in order to explore a way around a problem, it'll eventually work you around it.)

Not as nice as what Aaron's describing, but danged useful....

And for John's original question, there was in recent memory a double-DIN Eclipse receiver that included a Tom-Tom or something that snapped into the face and served as the head unit's display as well as navigation. Not the prettiest thing, but not bad -- and gives you both "built-in" nav plus a portable GPS....

[pballpromasta]

And for John's original question, there was in recent memory a double-DIN Eclipse receiver that included a Tom-Tom or something that snapped into the face and served as the head unit's display as well as navigation. Not the prettiest thing, but not bad -- and gives you both "built-in" nav plus a portable GPS....

You mean this:
http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...clipse-AVN4430

BTW, someone is about to purchase my clarion single din. Im still thinking about molding a double din into the center cup holder console (i do have a spare) and that eclipse was an option but im just not sure. Any thoughts on the matter or any recommendations? the other option is still that JVC KD-AVX77 http://mobile.jvc.com/product.jsp?mo...hId=133&page=3 single din. so im not sure. any thoughts?