Thread: What did you do to your Car today?

It broke the freezing mark so I hosed off both cars. Drove both quite a bit today. A couple good 2nd gear pulls is always handy to put a big smile on your face.

Vacuumed the interior and used the meguiar's leather sealer system on the leather seats, door panels and steering wheel.

Finished my CS144 swap, hardwired my old phone with Torque, and put brighter LEDs in the overhead console:



LED Interior, no flash is used at all:

Holy chit is that bright!!!!

Put my volt booster in..made interior brighter...04 needles in later today I hope!

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Still debating on getting one of those

I debated 2 years finally gotnone and definite difference..for 15 bucks its worth it. I had to order other parts for zzp so figured just get it...going to do the big 3 mod when it warms up as well.

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The alternator booster caused a lot of problems for me, I'm happy it's gone. My ABS\TCS lights came on at random, lights dimmed MORE, erratic idle, etc. Ever since my CS144 went in (2 days ago, lol) all has been well without a single issue. You guys gotta remember, the alternator booster does nothing for amperage, it only raises the voltage, so the alternator can't take anymore load, it just overpowers everything.

^ where did you get those leds? Im not happy with the ones I got and would replace them if I could find ones like yours.

I bought them from a place up in Springfield, MO for $4 each on the 194s, and $7 on the 42mm. The 194s are 1.5w and the 42mms are 2w. I have 8 194s and 2 42mms, I'm not sure where they get them or if they can ship, if you want, I can look into it for ya?

If you would look into it, that would be awesome! Thank you

Originally Posted by Booba5185

The alternator booster caused a lot of problems for me, I'm happy it's gone. My ABS\TCS lights came on at random, lights dimmed MORE, erratic idle, etc. Ever since my CS144 went in (2 days ago, lol) all has been well without a single issue. You guys gotta remember, the alternator booster does nothing for amperage, it only raises the voltage, so the alternator can't take anymore load, it just overpowers everything.

Ditto.

My battery was dead one morning. Checked the voltage after installing a new battery..... 15.2v. Not cool. Removed voltage booster, back down to 14.2v (13.8-14.2v). I never noticed a difference in brighter lights or anything like that, just the cost of replacing a perfectly good battery.

Personally, I would stay clear of these boosters.

I was going off of my Torque Pro reading, which with the boost was 14.6-14.7 sometimes 14.8v. With my CS144 Torque it says around 13.6-13.7, I thought it was low so I went and checked it at the alt, post, and battery and it was all 14.1v. That makes me wonder what the alt, post, and battery would have said if I checked the voltage with a multimeter when I had the booster installed!

My ABS and TCS Off lights have not been on since the booster is gone as well. I can't say for sure that it is fixed yet because it was a random light before, but has stayed off 100x longer than before. Example, Friday they were on all day, except for one quarter mile stretch. It hasn't been on at ALL since the alternator was installed on Saturday. So it LOOKS like the alternator was my issue. Of course now that I have actually said that the lights will turn on the next time I drive the car...

13.2 MPGS lol, oh boy, thought my 16.0 was bad

my avg is always in the 12 to 14 range, driving all local does suck.

Well I walked out to this yesterday. Small-ish tree limb (about 5-6in in diameter) fell on my car. No other damage, I'm just pissed the paint is chipping/flaking.

im not sure how easy it is to fix the pillar,I'm really not familiar with body work at all. Although my cousin works in the body shop where I bought the car(Lexus dealer) and I can get the employee discount on having it fixed.

My buddy at work came up to me today with a box and said want a set of hid's? I said sure and he gave them to me. They are brand New threw them in and I'll see how they look later

Wish I had buddies like that lol