[s-cars] Isn't there a better way...

[Joseph Pizzimenti]

All-
Why is it that I have become the list
pincushion/comedian as of late?  Not that I mind it,
though.  I need the attention.
Got the car back today with a new control arm, strut
housing, left rear caliper, new alignment and about a
grand missing from my pocket.  Hey, at least I know it
was done right.  I took off the wheel that I bent with
an S-03 with perfectly good tread on it, by the way,
and put back on my stock 16's with Pirelli
SnowSport210's.
Let me emphatically say: "DAMN IT TO HELL!"
Once you taste performance rubber, you can't really go
back.  I thought I was gonna ride out these winters
until the tread was gone and spend some coin on new
rubber/wheels.  WRONG!
I have to get rid of these snows ASAP.  I'm spoiled by
the S-03's, I guess.  Anyone know of a good wheel
straightening shop in the NY area?  Anyone on list
ever use RimPro in Greenwich?
What makes me so impatient, you ask?
Well, I was on an onramp that I had taken a million
times before in the rain, only this time I had the
snows on and lemmetellya, I damn near shit myself.
The car plowed like...well...something that plows real
bad.  :-)  It kinda sucks when you're on a 15mph
onramp understeering right towards a nice 75 year old
Maple way over the limit of the tires.  Don't know how
I made it out, but I did.  Maybe God was watching,
maybe he just don't care enough to teach me a lesson,
but I'll be damned if I'm gonna keep these things on
for more than I have to.

Feel free to talk amongst yourselves about how Hakkas
with diamond tipped studs wouldn't have done that.  Or
how Vredesteins have a cooler tread pattern.  Or maybe
Paul can chime in about how he left his first gear on
the floor of his garage and is now trying to find the
missing teeth.

Driving it like I'm on COPS,
Joe Pizzo
--- Ron Einblau <einblau at einblau.com> wrote:
> I am with Richard, I use Eudora to look for topic
> areas of interest or
> urgent need.  And when I am down and out open up a
> Pizzo mail for
> entertainment.  Although sometimes there are little
> tidbits buried in the
> message - like my 93 S4 L/H steering rack bracket
> that cracked.  I now have
> a project mapped out to get the bracket removed
> (drill out the spot welds)
> and have a local fabricator make a bracket from 1/8"
> steel.  Will remount
> the heavy bracket and have a frame shop weld it back
> into place.    Will
> need to R&R the strut to get all the welding done,
> but should  not need any
> realigment of wheels according to my mechanic..
>
> Cheers,
> Ron
>
> At 01:09 PM 9/26/02 -0400, Richard Beels wrote:
> >I would modify that to say "exceeds the time it
> takes to download the
> >emails" because I can cruise through 100 emails by
> glancing at the subject
> >for the few pearls much quicker in Eudora (offline,
> at my leisure) than I
> >could by clicking through all the forums on any
> website (and only in "real
> >time").
> >
> >For example, I'm reading this now while my DSL is
> down.  If it was
> >web-only, I couldn't read the list at all.  But
> offline, I can read and
> >write all I want.
> >
> >
> >At 09:14 09/26/2002, Shakespearean monkeys danced
> on Kirby Smith's keyboard
> >and said:
> >>Although I'm a fan of the features of vBulletin, a
> forum type of
> >>interface is only needed, in my opinion, if the
> number of emails (or
> >>sections of a digest) exceeds the ability of the
> lister to scan through
> >>them in the time he can allocate to it.  IMO, this
> is not yet the case
> >>with the S-car list.
> >>
> >>kirby
> >
> >
> >Cheers!
> >
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