GM marketing finally does something right

[GRB]

"Acura strongly recommends"....As usual the car makers trying to put everybody else out of business. Greedy bastards. Where do they get the gall to say crap like that. The average tire dealer's tire jockey knows more about tires than anybody at the average Acura dealer. After market retailers spend tens of thousands of dollars on equipment to keep up with the changing times. How the Hell do they think po-dunk dealers have changed tires on vettes with PMS all these years???

More evidence you shouldn't believe ANYTHING a dealer tells you. Lexus dealers and Lexus Corp. are telling us GX-470 owners that a vibration at 55-65 MPH is normal after 10,000 miles or so. That's a nice feature on road trips. They also said a shaking steering wheel on sweeping turns was normal on my wife's last LS400. Another dealer, Hennesy, finally changed the PS pump and resolved the problem. My next car will not be a Lexus.

[William]

The reason given for them doing the tires were the sensors in the wheels. I asked a Bridgestone dealer about that at cruise nite and he about gagged. He said those are common these days and that they had done many with no problem. The last time I shopped tires ['01 Accord] I priced the Honda dealer. They were about 30% higher than everyone else.

Funny you should mention 'Vettes. One of our customers had a new one about 10 years ago and the tires quickly cracked. The Goodyear dealer handed him 4 new ones but could not mount them because they could not get the car on their rack. Same thing happened to me a few years ago at Sam's Club with our '89 Camaro convert-would not fit their rack.

[nuch_ss396]

HEY! How did we go from GM doing something right, to the
Acura TL? Oh yeah, it was me - sorry......

Steve

[70 copo]

It is official. "Transformers" has smashed all existing box office records.

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/entertain...t=entertainment

[ANDY M]

For a Tuesday, Phil.
See ya Saturday.

[70 copo]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood's box office record books have been transformed. The sci-fi adventure "Transformers" had an unprecedented Tuesday haul of $27.4 million in its official debut, beating a record of $15.7 million set last year by "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."

Am I missing something here??

[427TJ]

If I want to watch a movie I put in a DVD of either "Bullitt," "Dirty Harry," "Magnum Force," "Battle of Britain," "Tora Tora Tora," "Animal House," "American Graffiti," etc.

Can't think of anything worth going out to see nowadays. Oh yeah, I'll go see "Sicko."

[Chevy454]

Bill, don't forget "Outlaw Josey Wales", "Tombstone", "Dazed & Confused", or even the rarely talked about and Belushi cult favorite "1942"...

[427TJ]

I loved it in "1942" when the P-40 landed on the highway. Yep, "Dazed and Confused" is another classic. Wooderson's '70 Chevelle SS was the perfect car for that role. Having graduated HS in 1980, that movie speaks to me.

Now I think I'll put on some Van Halen and crank it up.