Got back from an equipment shopping trip to Seattle with 12 chairs from IKEA, a bunch of other fun IKEA goodies, assorted equipment for dispensing ice cream syrups, my suitcase, a folding camping mattress, blankets, and room for my sister. It was sweet!!! And I still had room to look around and see out all the windows. Yep, I LOOOOOOOVVVVE my xB!!!

 

I'm always impressed by the work people have done to their cars.

 

Well Kekai;

Yesterdays road trip consisted of hitting up my insurance company for info on my car, another stereo shop and the bank. Then my daughter and I took a road trip out to Sweethome (the backroads again), stopped at a rock museum (not a music deal, more like... out of the earth rocks). Then we swung back through Lebanon to see my sister for a few then back to home.

Nothing to outrageous. But driving through Sweethome was like driving through a time warp. That town, for the most part is like 10 years behind the norm. It was like the day I bought the car, lots of finger pointing, gaping mouths and confused looks.

Sweethome rests right at the base of the Cascade mountains and is one of the remaining big logging towns. So needless to say, it's 4X4 country. A safe town if your a guy and sporting a 6 month old beard and a flanel shirt or if you are a girl, missing a few teeth, sporting the "auqa-net" do and and a beer belly to match your mans.

Up early this morning getting ready for the Portland trip. My nephew (5 years old) has a wrestling tourney just a couple miles from Gresham show, so I'm going to shoot up there and watch him wrestle and then head over to the Toyota dealership.

 

Well Kekai;

Yesterdays road trip consisted of hitting up my insurance company for info on my car, another stereo shop and the bank. Then my daughter and I took a road trip out to Sweethome (the backroads again), stopped at a rock museum (not a music deal, more like... out of the earth rocks). Then we swung back through Lebanon to see my sister for a few then back to home.

Nothing to outrageous. But driving through Sweethome was like driving through a time warp. That town, for the most part is like 10 years behind the norm. It was like the day I bought the car, lots of finger pointing, gaping mouths and confused looks.

Sweethome rests right at the base of the Cascade mountains and is one of the remaining big logging towns. So needless to say, it's 4X4 country. A safe town if your a guy and sporting a 6 month old beard and a flanel shirt or if you are a girl, missing a few teeth, sporting the "aqua-net" do and and a beer belly to match your mans.

Up early this morning getting ready for the Portland trip. My nephew (5 years old) has a wrestling tourney just a couple miles from Gresham show, so I'm going to shoot up there and watch him wrestle and then head over to the Toyota dealership.

 

I am sure that what ever it is that you ahve done is really cool. Heck it has been gone long enough that it should be pretty nice. I look forward to seeing it.

 

updated the withdrawl thread

 

Cleaned the interior of the box today, figured I might as well as long as I had the instrument cluster, center dash, and glovebox ripped out. Got my little "mod" done - no big deal, but it makes me a lot happier.

I have a kinda bad shoulder so reaching backwards around the driver's seatback to turn on the dome light is a real pain - literally!

So what I did is put in two of the Gardner-Bender GSW-45 switches that pop right into the dash center console, and wired the drivers side one up to the door lock controller harness where it runs the dome light. Now when I want to turn the dome light on I just hit the switch on the dash. (The dome light still works normally, too, of course.)

What did I hook the other switch up to? Nothing. I'll think of something it needs to do, though.

Tom

 

oh i drove my xb to a nissan meet loved showing it off!