Tip for making a long drive pleasant, two words |
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Tip for making a long drive pleasant, two words |
Demick |
Apr 26 2005, 11:20 AM
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Ernie made me do it! Group: Benefactors Posts: 2,312 Joined: 6-February 03 From: Pleasanton, CA Member No.: 257 |
Two words: Ear Plugs - or maybe it's just one word, earplugs. Who knows.
Having just returned from the WCC, my journey home was only about 325 miles (small in comparison to others). The wind noise, road noise, engine noise etc can get so tiresome on a long trip. Put in a set of earplugs and you will swear that you just got into a modern car. The transformation is unbeliveable. And I guarantee that after an hour or two when you remove them you won't believe the racket that your car makes. You will think there is something wrong with the car because it is so noisy! Earplugs made my 5.5 hour trip home a breeze. Even after spending a whole day at the track. Without them it would have been a very fatiguing drive home. Demick |
Rand |
Apr 26 2005, 12:31 PM
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Cross Member Group: Members Posts: 7,409 Joined: 8-February 05 From: OR Member No.: 3,573 Region Association: None |
I don't think I'll ever use earplugs in my 914... or any other older car. I like to hear it if something starts to go wrong. Guess it's because I had a bad experience... I took a Suzuki Sidekick on a long drive with headphones in one time, and by the time I heard the rattling noise it was very loud and immediately threw a rod out the side of the block. We tore it down to see what happened... turned out a rod bolt came loose... we found it laying in the bottom. Must not have been torqued properly at the factory or something. Anyway, if I had heard it sooner I would have stopped in time to save the engine.
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