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Old 09-11-2011, 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Leprechaun93
My car is nice to commute in they're roomy and pretty comfy but still sporty enough when you want them to be. The temperature guage, i have the same thing on my monte it'll get maybe to 1/4 of the way up driving and usually no higher unless i'm in traffic, seems strange to me.

Keane, thanks for the reassurance, with that I may take it to work tomorrow? I was just a little concerned because I drive the PA turnpike, but that shouldn't matter to much. My commute to work is only about 12 miles.
 
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Old 09-11-2011, 10:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Teacher
Afternoon all, decided to have walmart swap the rims on the monte, they charged me 10.00 so not bad. Thanks to Keith I have new tires now which I desperately needed. Here are the before and after, now to sell the old rims.

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Hi Todd; I like both sets of wheels. I am glad you were able to get Walmart to do the work for you. Every time I deal with the Walmarts here it is a major hassle. If the car is not 100 percent stock they can't do this or they can't do that. I've gotten to the point that I want to get my own tire changer and balancer. I never knew getting minor work done on a car could be so complicated. I had to argue with them to mount a dam tire because the tire size I either had on it or wanted to put on it wasn't the size their tire book said should be on it. Another time they wouldn't mount tires on the car because it had mag wheels that were not factory. Another time I had a tire that had a broken belt. It was on one of the mag wheels on my Monte. Money was tight and I had replaced one tire a week because that was what I could afford. I was dealing with a Walmart near Disney and they had changed the first three tires without a problem. The fourth tire I was getting done near home in Lakeland. Because the last tire was different they wouldn't work on the car. I had to go into the parking lot and remove the tire and wheel from the car in the rain for them to change the tire. If I had any other choice I would not have done it.
 
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Old 09-11-2011, 10:55 PM
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Todd, when you get a chance, please take a few up-close pics of your wheels. I might be interested, are they 17 inch? Thanks
 
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Old 09-11-2011, 11:21 PM
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Originally Posted by monte carlo 3831
Keane, thanks for the reassurance, with that I may take it to work tomorrow? I was just a little concerned because I drive the PA turnpike, but that shouldn't matter to much. My commute to work is only about 12 miles.
I us mine to get to school, 120 mile round trip it is so I spend some quality time with the monte lol. My commute to work is only 6 miles each way.
 
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Old 09-11-2011, 11:31 PM
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i havent drove a car to work for almost a year. that is my my monte gets to spend alot of time in the garage out of the elements
 
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Old 09-11-2011, 11:47 PM
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Tomorrow I will be taking the Z34 to work, I got it all sorted out for now, so it's a GO....
 
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Old 09-12-2011, 12:02 AM
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Good luck on driving the car to work chris
 
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Old 09-12-2011, 08:12 AM
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Originally Posted by monte carlo 3831
Todd, when you get a chance, please take a few up-close pics of your wheels. I might be interested, are they 17 inch? Thanks
Chris both sets are 16 inch
 
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