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The spot mirrors do a good job of showing things in the blind spot but I never could get use to it being on the top corner. Today I remove it and put the mirror that is intended to be on the passenger side on the bottom. It fits the contour of the mirror really well. Now I can use the top portion of the mirror as usual and still see the blind spot by looking at the bottom when needed. I drove about 100 miles today and I think the new location works better for me. Old location: New location:

Reading what I posted above brings back some old memories for me. My mother died when I was young. In the summer when Dad was at work I stayed with an old widow woman who lived on a limited income. She didn't have a refrigerator. She still had an ice box. I remember the ice man would come around every so often and bring her a big block of ice to go in her ice box. I still have a vision in my head of him putting a leather cape over his back, going into his ice truck and grabbing a big block of ice with tongs, and slinging it onto his back. He would carry it in her house and put it in the ice box for her. His ice truck didn't have a refrigeration unit to keep the ice cool. It had dry ice inside the truck in bins along the sides. That kept the blocks of ice from melting so fast as he delivered it. Before he would leave he would throw me a few chunks of dry ice in the yard so I could play with it. I liked to put it a jar of water and watch it boil, or throw it on the sloping concrete sidewalk and watch it squirm and slide around as it melted. The milk man would bring glass bottles of milk and set them on the porch. You had to leave you empty milk bottles on the porch for him to pickup. His truck was also kept cool with dry ice but he wouldn't give me any. That was the good old days... wasn't it??

Completely agree. I set mine up the same way… thanks for sharing.

Dorman's fits perfectly bu on my pump it is off 4 gallons. Which means when it show empty I still have 4 gallons left.

and the passenger side air bag warning on my CTS (left the on/off visible though).

Black tape fix… That’s what I do for the ABS light on my Reatta.

and milk bottles had a bubble area at the top for the cream to rise...

Went over to Bob's today and we installed an after market muffler to replace the aftermarket one that had a split seem and was getting loud. The complete exhaust system was also aftermarket so it did get involved a bit. But we got it done and the car is much quieter and my wife is happier.

My daughter fusses at me for not recycling plastid water bottles and cardboard. She says if my generation had done more to keep the environment clean it wouldn't be in such bad shape now., implying that my generation did nothing to stop pollution of the environment Later on I found the following and emailed it to her. She hasn't mentioned recycling to me since. The older people here will understand the moral of the story. --------------------------------------------------- This Green Thing Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment, The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." The older lady said that she was right our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day. Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation.

Just saying, how many tan tops on red convertibles have you seen.......bunches. How many black tops on red convertibles have you seen...........not many. The tan top says "I am a cool car" whereas the black top says "I am a hot car."

Ditto on all of the above...it's worth the price being asked for.

The wheel speed sensors are a one year Reatt/Riv only. Windshield good? Side mirrors good? Instrument cluster and all the silver boxes make the car work with no warnings? Yeah I'd buy it...

Does he have a clean title ? In Florida that is worth about $300. Since you have a 91, having a same year parts car would be worth it. ps if it has a nice front end and hood, that alone would be worth it IMNSHO.

Gas gauge is hit or miss on my GMC pickup. It works when it wants to. Always reads empty when full and turns on the low fuel light. Black tape cured that. It randomly starts working from time to time but I don't look at it. I just reset the trip meter each time I fill up and repeat when it hits 400 miles. It holds 26 gallons so I still have a good way to go before it's empty.