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  3. underglow

    in Appearance, Cleaning, & Detailing

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    Duh. Get a kit that does all the colors (from www.plasmaglow.com or similar), and choose the one you like and keep it. I have plasmaglow's 2.1 million color kit... Haven't installed it yet... It's LED so I'm a little scared of how the bright the light output is going to be, so I'm waiting until I buy a second kit and I'm going to rig them all together...

  6. Got in an accident

    in Off-Topic/General

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    Well, here's the recent news:

     

    I told my insurance company that I wanted to be there when the adjuster came to look at me truck, but of course that didn't happen... I had the truck moved down to a shop called the Diamond Collision Center (in Pocasset, MA). A couple of my friends are tow truck drivers and auto body specialists and they said that this place is the best bet in a couple hundred miles. I called them and within 5 minutes of being on the phone with them they had dispatched a flatbed to go get my baby... I went down to visit them (about a 40 minute drive), and got to talk to them about have nice Ram Air hood installed (I love the twin-scoop Good Hood, but am absolutely not going with a fiberglass hood, so I'm looking for a good steel one...), a nice billet grille, some stripes (blue ones, I've yet to decide on shade or style though), and a nicer headlight setup (see my other post about projectors)... Best of all of this is that my insurance company is going to end up paying for it... I haven't received my copy of the appraisal yet, so I don't know exactly how much damage was done, but at least the truck wasn't declared totaled.

     

    Moral of the story: I should be back on the road in about a month or so...

  9. Projector Halo HIDs

    in Appearance, Cleaning, & Detailing

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    While my truck is in the body shop from my accident (which, btw, the state is pressing charges against the drunk driver for , go taxachusetts :thumbs: ), I'm having the body shop hook me up with a ram air hood, chrome grille, and new headlights... I remember reading somewhere that Projectors and HID kits don't mix because somehow the halos get screwed up... I searched the site but I couldn't find anything definative... Does anyone have a Projector Halo setup (like JDM's) mated with nice HID kit?

  10. New Jet boat and SSS

    in Off-Topic/General

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    Beautiful boat you got there... I'd kill myself in something like that...

     

    Hopefully within two or three years I'll be trading in my 2002 22" Bombardier for an early 90's 40" Baja 420ES... Then I'll have to buy another dually to tow it... Can't wait!!

  15. Radar Detectors

    in General SS

    Posted

    I was thinking about that too, but if you get pulled over with one in MA and the cops see it... They're merciless with the ticket... So I want it to be fairly well hidden from view...

     

    Since it's a V1 I could hide it totally from view and get the remote for it... anyone done that?

  16. Radar Detectors

    in General SS

    Posted

    I'm thinking about taking my V1 out of my other truck and putting it in the SS (after I get it back from the body shop from my accident :banghead::banghead: ), and I was curious how everyone mounted it... I know that the V1 needs to be up high and be able to look out both the windshield and the back window... I'm thinking about building it into that little tray up on the headliner (under the courtesy lights)... Anybody have theirs permanently mounted somewhere creative?

     

    Post pics if you've got them please...

  19. Got in an accident

    in Off-Topic/General

    Posted

    bummer man. I hate drunk driver's with a passion. My dad and I were hit by one head on when I was nine, I've had neck and back problems since then.... so it should be 11 years in August.

     

    Its good to know you're not seriously injured, and like FireRescueSS said, the truck can be fixed/replaced alot easier than you can. In my opinion, any vehicle that can hold together in a collision and the driver can walk away from with little or no injuries has done its job, which most vehicles do. i've seen some cars that people should have walked away from, but didnt, because they weren't wearing their seat belts, and I have yet to see an accident where if someone hadn't been wearing their seat belt, they would have survived... it just doesn't happen.

     

    how did the other people come out of the accident?

     

     

    One of the other drivers (the one who was in front of me and got hit by the drunk driver) got a broken nose and some facial burns from the airbag and went to the hospital for it (nothing too serious), and the woman who caused all this I don't really know... We yelled at her at the top of our lungs for a while and then the cops came and moved her to the other side of the scene... The only one that died was the woman's yellow lab, which went from the back seat into the windshield, and then had a heart attack... Out of everyone in the accident I feel the worst for it

     

    Thanks for the support guys... I'm going down to the police station today to file the statement, and then over to the "secured facility" where my truck is ("" <- are there because even though the public can't get in, the employees steal stuff right out of your car and play the "what? that wasn't there" game)... I'll keep you all updated...

  20. Got in an accident

    in Off-Topic/General

    Posted

    It's not as bad as you think... I was not at fault, and I'm fine... Here it goes:

     

     

    I was on my way home from my buddies house, I had just eaten a Mobile hot dog and i'm pretty sure it gave me food poisoning, so I was on my way home to get some sleep before work... I'm about 3 car-lengths behind a '90s Grand Marquis, going about 35mph (in a 40)... and a drunk woman (early 40s) comes around a slow bend at around 80mph... I saw her headlights on the trees and then the accident was in front of me in less than a second (literally). She dove into our lane, not slid/drifted/turned, but DOVE into oncoming traffic, and then quickly tried to correct her action by going back into her lane. At that point the Marquis had already began panic stopping (he hit his brakes so hard that he blew out both his tires and was sliding on the rims at 30mph), and they collided about 60 feet in front of me... I had begun to panic stop before they crashed, but didn't have the option to get out of the way until I was about 20 feet from the crash. I had enough time to get almost a full revolution on the steering wheel to the right, enough to get off the road but not enough to completely miss the tree... Annihilated the front left clip of my truck, I only hit the tree at about 20mph or less)... I got the heat burn from the powder of my air-bag, and almost went deaf from the on-star emergency call (for those of you who don't know, it turns the volume of your stereo ALL THE WAY UP)...

     

    I have some pictures I'll post up later... I was just crying at the crash scene... My vehicles are like children to me... and I've had this one for less than 2 months and it's got less than 4k on it, and some drunk woman goes and ruins it's title... Hopefully insurance will completely cover the cost of the frame-straightening and the cosmetics (fender, grill, headlights, bumper, hood, and most likely all the components attached to the front left tire)...

     

    I'll let you guys know how it turns out...

  21. Proximity Starter

    in General SS

    Posted

    Found this one ebay...not exactly what you are looking for, but pretty cool that you can open it with a series of knocks...however, as soon as someone learns the password, they could steal your car...some people might wonder why you are knocking, figure it out and then...gone...lol.

     

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/car-alarm-r...1QQcmdZViewItem

     

    And this one locks/unlocks the doors as you approach...

     

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/New-LCD-Pag...1QQcmdZViewItem

     

     

    I actually have that second kit in my '88 Dually... it works very well but the battery in the remote dies *VERY* frequently....

  22. Proximity Starter

    in General SS

    Posted

    Also, do any of the SSS's have the GM autostart (Where you put the key in and tap it to start and let the key go and it cranks automatically untill it's started)? My '03 doesn't have it, but my '04 3500 Wrecker had it... I'm just wondering if any of you guys have it...

  23. Proximity Starter

    in General SS

    Posted

    Does anyone know if there's a kit or system to set up a Proximity Car Starter? My friend's Corvette ZR-1 has a proximity sensor so that when you get it near it the doors unlock... And I was wondering how I would set something like that up in my SSS so that if certain conditions are met (I walk away and then come back and open a door / whatever), the truck would start...

     

    Anyone have any ideas? I was thinking I'd shave the handles and set the system up with an RF card so that I never have to carry my keys around, I just get near the truck and it unlocks, get in it and it starts, walk away from it and it locks...

     

    Thanks in advance guys...

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