NOR-CAL General Chat.

[Mohit]

Calderon's Tire on Bascom. They are HoneyBadgers.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/calderons-ne...=tire+mounting

Do you think most independent tire shops would do it? I live in Chico so San Jose is like 3 hours away.

[JinormusJ]

Do you think most independent tire shops would do it? I live in Chico so San Jose is like 3 hours away.

Any independent place is more likely to install them than a national or franchised chain.


If you are running 20mm spacers and with that offset on 8" wheels, you will need 205s for clearance depending on low

Next time they try to tell you what to run, you can tell them to shove it

[decay]

I'd rather my plate flex and crack the oil pan than divert the force straight into the frame with no damping at all.

guy who makes the e30motorwerks skidplates is a friend of mine.

he bounces his car off that plate like he's trying to win a prize at the county fair.

no frame damage.

[Thizzelle]

What is there to do in Alabama?

FAP all day

[Mohit]

Any independent place is more likely to install them than a national or franchised chain.


If you are running 20mm spacers and with that offset on 8" wheels, you will need 205s for clearance depending on low

Next time they try to tell you what to run, you can tell them to shove it

I'm going to run 10mm spacers all around. I'm probably just going to order them off tirerack and have some independent shop install them.

[Matt-B]

Race skids skid plate
Kinda
Sucks...

Bolts into the core support; it is maybe 2-3mm thick; has no support ribbing, etc.



The best skid plate I've ever seen originated from E30tech (yes, I know :weak:)

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=265750

THATS what a skid plate should look like

I have the jgee plate, radeskids, and the copies, dont do anything. My plate is tuff as nails

only reason more people dont have it, is because, its 300$ +

[JinormusJ]

NOR-CAL General Chat.

JGee's plate is on my "to buy" list before I go M3 GCs

Only reason more people dont have it, is because, its 300$ +

Yet I find it hilarious how people justify $150 for the cheap plates + $100 for an inevitable smashed pan and another $50 plus $100 in labor welding in a new lower core support when the lesser plates fail

Not to mention down-time and personal labor. And then you need to buy a new plate again

Can't wait to get back from my business trip and pay J a visit when I travel to SoCal again

I'm going to run 10mm spacers all around. I'm probably just going to order them off tirerack and have some independent shop install them.

That would be your best bet. Try to find some hole in the wall place

Or make buddies with a shop guy and use his for free :mrgreen:

[Cabriolet]

my grandpa passed, we buried him today. two of my dad's four siblings had the will rewritten and took everything. his sister's children are getting more than he. and all the rest of us cousins got 0. i didnt even get the WW2 medals i had asked for. my poor dad would have had his house paid off. now he get's ~ what an e30's worth. and his brother the same. while the two younger siblings are walking away with a free 700k house and the other got 100k in cash.

life isn't fair. and people that love money are the worst kinds of people.

[e30vert]

Sorry for your and your fathers loss. Estate disputes can quickly divide families when things do not work out to be equitable.
If the will was rewritten while your grandfather was in a diminished mental capacity there are grounds for legal action to be take to dispute the legitimacy of the will. It seems that the stage to "contest" the will may have already passed. ??

[toddness]

California is a probate state. This means assets slated to be transferred through a will and not part of a trust or other immediately transferable document (life insurance, survivorship) will have to be confirmed by probate law. Nobobdy gets anything until probate is complete - other than those things that are immediately transferable.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-probate-an-overview.html

[decay]

my grandpa passed, we buried him today. two of my dad's four siblings had the will rewritten and took everything. his sister's children are getting more than he. and all the rest of us cousins got 0. i didnt even get the WW2 medals i had asked for. my poor dad would have had his house paid off. now he get's ~ what an e30's worth. and his brother the same. while the two younger siblings are walking away with a free 700k house and the other got 100k in cash.

life isn't fair. and people that love money are the worst kinds of people.

sorry for your loss, eric, and that's a familiar story-

my stepmother rewrote both my father's will in 2006, and my grandfather's will this year.

brother and i got a goose egg both times; and my dad was a VP at a national-level construction firm that built corporate campuses... he was pretty wealthy.

stepmother now has lymphoma, which is just as well, because otherwise i'd have half a mind to find someone who'll put a bullet in her head. karma, god, or whatever you believe in will take care of people who go through life acquiring ill-gotten gains.

[Pantless Spency]

Some people are shitty sorry to hear that Eric.

[2mAn]

I work in banking and it never ceases to amaze me the things families do to each other in the name of monetary gains.. sorry for your loss Eric

[Vivek]

my grandpa passed, we buried him today. two of my dad's four siblings had the will rewritten and took everything. his sister's children are getting more than he. and all the rest of us cousins got 0. i didnt even get the WW2 medals i had asked for. my poor dad would have had his house paid off. now he get's ~ what an e30's worth. and his brother the same. while the two younger siblings are walking away with a free 700k house and the other got 100k in cash.

life isn't fair. and people that love money are the worst kinds of people.

Damn man I'm really really sorry to hear that. Dealing with a loss is tough enough without this kinda bullshit surrounding it. I hope it all works out for you and your dad.

[decay]

I work in banking and it never ceases to amaze me the things families do to each other in the name of monetary gains.. sorry for your loss Eric

AFAICT it pretty much happens when anyone dies.

grandma on mom's side passed a few years ago, and dividing the estate up between her four kids led to a schism that still exists now- my cousins from that aunt won't speak to me or my brother anymore, and we had zero to do with it; didn't even stand to inherit anything.

but, "my mom says your mom's a bitch so i'm not talking to you anymore" is apparently more important than 30+ years of growing up together...

brother and i have both told my mom to enjoy the rest of her life and not worry about saving more than she needs to live; i don't want to find out if we're both really mature enough to deal with it (in addition to the stress of losing the last parent we have).