What did you do to your LX today

I've seen that seller's ads...they sure do make a big deal about being guaranteed, yada yada. Please do post back with your experience on this. I need extra fobs for 2 cars and would like to not get burned.

As far as what I did, yesterday, drove around for 3 hours and 4 places - trying to get wheel locks removed off the 300. It had a mixture of 4 Gorilla spline lugs and 1 Gorilla regular lock on each wheel. No big deal on the splines, I know those use a generic key so I just bought another key for $5. On the regular locks, these were the kind with the long, skinny, completely round end - and the notches for the key deep down at the base of the lug, and they require a unique numbered key. I tried all my tricks (and I'm pretty good with wheel locks) to remove them and failed miserably, so I hit the road seeing who could help. Discount Tire couldn't, two different high end repair shops couldn't, and in the end Tire & Wheel Connection over on FM 1960 (Houston) got them off without much hassle. That's the kind of shop I probably shoulda gone to in the first place. They had a big selection of similar style keys and just tried until they found one closer than the others and hammered it on; it gripped better than hammering on any other kind of socket or key.

Dealer is still "looking" for the keys...yeah right. And I'm holding my breath waiting.

Oh, and leaving the tire shop, at a stoplight - got a really big smile from a fine-lookin' woman driving an Audi Q5. Pretty much made my morning. :mrgreen:

Richard

Installed Hellcat-style (Scat Pack/Dynamics) hyper black OEM takeoffs, not replicas!





Got the new decals on my freshly silver Hellcat 6 piston Brembo calipers...just waiting for better weather (very humid right now) to clear coat over 'em.



Richard

BM_SRT said:

I have had some good results with that, it should be great. The calipers don't get too hot anyways so I wish I went with the Duplicolor. The VHT customer rep told me to apply the base, then clear shortly after, so I could not get the decal under clear as you did. They still came out pretty good and look great a year and a half later.

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Well, I brought the calipers inside last night so they could warm up in the house. They were at 75F when I took them out to the garage. The can of clear was a little warmer than that, as it had been sitting up on a shelf inside, near the duct. Garage was about 60F. Waited for the lowest point of humidity we're likely to see here anytime soon (about 70%) and gave it a try.

First coat of clear started to run and sag almost immediately. Tried blowing the runs away and it didn't help. Wiped 'em and re-tried. Gave the coat enough flash time and hit it again. Started seeing yellow sags that looked like some kind of weird separation? Real bummer. I cleaned them up as best I could and overall, they don't look bad, but I guess I should be thankful that with 20" wheels the caliper will be mostly hidden except for the front of it!! Pretty sure next time around I'll just blast and powdercoat.

Now to let 'em cure up a nice long time since there's so little wiggle room while installing the wheel; don't want to nick up the new paint too much. Might hang a towel or something over them while doing so, but even then, I wouldn't do it until I'm sure the paint/clear has had ample time to cure.



Richard

Got the driver and passenger airbag (recalls R25 / S43 ) done on my '06 300C SRT8. Also had them check for any updates the car might need since it's an early build car and as far I can tell, hasn't been back to the dealer for anything since 2007 at 7600 miles - I bought it just last October with only 9400 miles on it.

Revision #'s of the updates they did just for reference, dunno if it helps anybody out for any reason but I figure information never hurts.

PCM from 05030232AD to 05030232AF , TCM from 04692392AF to 04692392AK , FCM from 04692028AH to 04692028AM

Cost me $159.88 out the door (just for the updates of course) which isn't bad, considering they were trying to hit me for $250. Thanks to my working knowledge of these cars through the forums, as well as some quick help from a forum member that happens to work at a dealer (thanks Jerry!) it didn't turn out that way.

I initially thought I was going to have some less-than-nice things to say about the dealer (Allen Samuels in Katy TX) but overall things went well, especially considering I wanted to wait on the car instead of dropping it off. Hey; I took a book to read and just waited patiently. I also declined all the up-selling the service advisor tried to do; I know it's his job but I also know I didn't need a single bit of it. Got there at 8AM and they had me out of there a little bit after 10. Not bad.

Richard