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Well after about 5-6 mos I finally got my Tour back and it is running better than ever! Well duh since everything in it is brandnew but still I'm just glad I got it back! No more no heater having Plymouth Sundance for me, or at least until summer since it is a turbo.
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Happy to have her working again I'm sure!  No more lawn art! You got a new computer I see. What is it?
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How did I know you were gonning to be the first one to reply to my post! Yeah I finally got around to ditching that 200MMX I was holding on to. I got a 1.3Ghz Compaq with a 19" Monitor with a CD-RW and all the goodies for $649. It actually turned out to be cheaper than building one my self in this case but it is still a Crapaq though. The first mod I'm going to do to this is to pull the 1.3Ghz Duron and replace it with a 1.3Ghz Atholon and add another 128MB RAM to it but this thing is still very fast compared to my old one. Plus this 19" Monitor is like a big screen TV compared to the pitful little 14" I was using on my old one. And WHEN the thing stops working I can actually fit a normal motherboard in it! Amazing for a prebuilt computer nowadays!
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But again I am very happy to finally have my Tour back and working! I put about 1000 miles on it yeterday just driving around aimlessly basking in all of its glory. They were even nice enough to fix some of the stuff I broke for free too, plus they replaced my dash becuase of the recall and now the color don't match perfectly but that's only if you sit there and stare at it. They also found a cleaner way to wire my side markers for me too. I guess they wanted to get back on my good side since we just bought a $25,000 car from them a couple months ago. And these wheels suck.... it's after market time for me! Even though it's probably not really the wheels but the front racing slicks you gave to me with them! I saw an ad in the ad-pack thingy for all four tires mounted and balanced and stuff for $99 for those particular tires so I might go do that tommorow.
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Hey, Remy, I wasn't aware we had a Zetec MIA, but glad to hear you got it back 
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Welcome back (not like you went anywhere)  Beware of $99 tire deals- they are seldom $99 and worth even less... 
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Yeah I know the tires probably suck since all for of them are $99 installed but for 14" rims and the pizza duty this car is serving currently they should be alright, hopefully.
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Originally posted by Remy The Rice Slayer:
And these wheels suck.... it's after market time for me! Even though it's probably not really the wheels but the front racing slicks you gave to me with them! LOL! Racing slicks are what I had started calling them too! I just got new tires myself, ended up with Yokohama Avid H4's. They're great, haven't slipped on dry pavement yet. 
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Where did you get the H4s at and how much? IIRC they were around 40 a piece for the 14"s from the tire rack. What do you think of those as those are the ones I'm thinking about if I decide against the 99 dollar deal.
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I got them from Hughes Bros. on Market Street. The total cost including balancing, mounting, and tax was $249.55. The tires were 57.50 apiece.
I really like them. They look good (well, I need to wash them never got around to it) and handle better. Like I said before, they haven't slipped on dry pavement at all (the old ones did, btw) and only have once on wet.
Oh, and I went size 205/60/R15.
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