Posts by wjfyfe

  • Aftermarket Seats, Seat covers, and Seat recipes

    Quote from dangerdarrell

    My wife has the quilted seats. They do allow more water to enter because there are many more holes from the stitching. However, You can decrease the amount of water entering if you use seam sealer for tents, flip the seats forward, put on seat covers, or just sit in them with your rain suit on while riding. Then seats absorbing water are the least of your problems. :D

    Thanks dangerdarrell, (scratch quilted seats!)


    Bill

  • Kinda sad

    Quote from Stairgod

    Hey wjfyfe why don't you look for a 2001 VW that was granny driven and only has less miles on it.

    Possibly, but you are still buying a 20 some year old vehicle, though, that just may be what we will be forced to do. The Chevy diesel Cruze was the closest contender, but now that they can no longer be purchased with a manual transmission that option has now also passed. So, if we want another vehicle that does what our 20 year old TDI Jetta does, a new vehicle is no longer an option, it will have to be used.


    Bill

  • Kinda sad

    Point being, in 19 years wouldn't ya think that somebody would have come up with something better, well, at least equal? 55 MPG plus on the highway, 35 MPG pulling a 1200 pound trailer, and still able to pass most vehicles on the hills, things have actually gone backward where there is nothing out there today that even comes close, at least in this country. :(


    Bill

  • Kinda sad

    Though the SlingShot is in a whole different class of vehicles, but it literally screamed "Buy me! Buy me! where we simply had no choice to do just that! :thumbsup:


    Sorta related to the SlingShot is with our 2001 VW Jetta TDI, which is sneaking up on 400,000 miles and since it is getting so long in the tooth we have been considering "upgrading" to a newer vehicle. The problem has become that we have yet to find any vehicle today that would do us a better job than our Jetta. There has been simply nothing out there screaming to us, "Buy me! Buy me!" We are choosing to put more money into our 18 year old jalopy rather than buying something new, now, ain't that sad?




    Bill

  • 1320 exhaust fumes.

    Quote from Ruptured Duck

    The way to manage air flow is to redirect it from below, from the side or even from above the hoop area or a combination of all. Been looking into a number of ideas but making them look good is the hardest part.

    Precisely, plus you need to keep in mind how to keep it economical! :thumbsup:


    Bill

  • 1320 exhaust fumes.

    I am just curious if anybody has any thoughts or ideas on how to break that vacuum being produced by the rear of the SlingShot where a related issue is the coating of everything in the back by wet roads?


    Bill

  • COOLANT TANK ISSUES?

    Quote from FunCycle

    Oh! and heat was/is not the problem with the tank. If it was everyone of them would be bad.

    Oh really? Then why did the problem mostly go away after Polaris started installing the heat shields, just coincidence I suppose? :POKESS:


    Bill

  • 2015-2016 Polaris Slingshot Recall (Taillight Wiring Problem)

    Quote from edwardaneal

    so, in theory if one just wanted to avoid going to the dealer you could just order the $115 camera and swap it out yourself?


    114 without the mount is a bit much, but for some who are a long way from the dealer or those who have dealers they dont like it might be something to consider - - after all time is money and if you have to waste a day __________

    You read our mind where we were just going to purchase a camera and change it out ourselves, then I looked up the cost! 8|8|8|=O8|=O8|


    We just disconnected our camera until such time we get into the vicinity of a dealer.....................


    Bill

  • COOLANT TANK ISSUES?

    Coolant tank issues were oh so very common back in the early days of the 2015-2016, primarily thought to be caused by being exposed to excessive heat and rectified with the installation of muffler/exhaust manifold shields. Hopefully those days are not coming back to haunt us?


    Bill