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HELP!! What do I need for a 400 mile trip?

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Old 02-15-2008, 10:19 PM
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Tools, extra coolant, oil, WTF!!! Do you guys drive POS's? I don't bring anything on the road. That's what cell phones and tow trucks are for. Check the basics and hit the road.
im sorry bernie not all of us have as nice of a car as you[8D]the only thing i bring with me when i go home from school is coolant and a set of screw drivers my rachet set and my plyer set
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Old 02-15-2008, 10:30 PM
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My point, most break downs won't be fixxed on the side of the road. When I was a kid, I used to carry all kinds a crap in the car. The car broke down about 3 hours away from home, had to be towed to a local garage. Toasted a set of points. There's no real way to tell "what" might actually break down unless you know you have an existing problem.

Kyle, it's not that my car is "that" nice. It's just been well maintained!! Only 2 times has my car let me down. Twice w/i 2 weeks of each other. Sorry *** MSD dizzy gave up the module. Needless to say, it went back to Summit and the stocker went back in. No problems since.
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Old 02-15-2008, 10:56 PM
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well ever since i have owned my car it have been very well maintained its the previous owners that didnt maintain it very welll at all and i spent the first year that i owned the car fixing all their mistakes. and i found out in lab a couple weeks ago that there is something wrong with my car internally. to keep the car running the mixture has to be stupid rich it you try to lean it out a little bit the car stumbles and idles like a bag of ***. we are thinking it might be an internal vacuum leak but i ran a vacuum test and its pulled 19in hq at an idle which is very good. the only reason we think there is something wrong is because we put my car on a 5 gas sniffer and the HC and CO are way way way off the charts ever for not having cats
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Old 02-16-2008, 02:00 AM
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Tools, extra coolant, oil, WTF!!! Do you guys drive POS's? I don't bring anything on the road. That's what cell phones and tow trucks are for. Check the basics and hit the road.
haha

the only thing I do is put my spare tire back in and make sure I have basic tools
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