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Old Feb 1, 2014 | 09:42 AM
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Anyone know of a good place to get an alignment after lowering car in the Clarkston/Auburn Hills area (within 30 min or so)?

Appreciate any input.
It may be a little far, but Guardian Car Care in Woodhaven is awesome. They digitally measure your alignment and show you before and after numbers. They have done several alignments for my lowered vehicles, and they always turn out perfect. The price should be right around $100.
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Old Feb 2, 2014 | 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by ICEMAN99TURBO
Thumb Area... Car is in storage, so the big blue Ram is out. Anyone thinking about boycotting the NAIAS again this year?
Why would you boycott the most important show in town? If you're in the industry or not, it cannot remain the biggest show in NA if attendance numbers drop. We have to keep it in Detroit, plain and simple. Unfortunately, the reality is that it is a one industry town. And this year it was better than the last 4 years, except I missed Lambo and Ferrari

Besides, what else you do you have to do in Jan?
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Old Feb 3, 2014 | 05:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Activ8
Why would you boycott the most important show in town? If you're in the industry or not, it cannot remain the biggest show in NA if attendance numbers drop. We have to keep it in Detroit, plain and simple. Unfortunately, the reality is that it is a one industry town. And this year it was better than the last 4 years, except I missed Lambo and Ferrari

Besides, what else you do you have to do in Jan?

only reason i went is i got free tix...
however...they did get my $3 for a bottle of water before i found a drinking fountain...
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Old Feb 3, 2014 | 11:57 AM
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I went to the industry showing of the car show. If you missed it, you can look in my sig. please like it too
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Old Feb 4, 2014 | 05:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Activ8
Why would you boycott the most important show in town? If you're in the industry or not, it cannot remain the biggest show in NA if attendance numbers drop. We have to keep it in Detroit, plain and simple. Unfortunately, the reality is that it is a one industry town. And this year it was better than the last 4 years, except I missed Lambo and Ferrari

Besides, what else you do you have to do in Jan?
My guess is the same reason the whole car club I belong to didn't go. No Mitsu showing. I only went because my daughter wanted to see all the rally related imports.
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Old Feb 4, 2014 | 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by UberDalum

My guess is the same reason the whole car club I belong to didn't go. No Mitsu showing. I only went because my daughter wanted to see all the rally related imports.
they did not have mitsubishi twice in a row since last year to my dismay. my first visit to cobo hall was when the 2003 Evo first came out! it was a red 2003 Evo VIII.
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Old Feb 6, 2014 | 02:07 PM
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spotted a grey x at 3:02pm on US-23 south getting off at 8 Mile
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Old Feb 11, 2014 | 08:23 AM
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Spotted a few Evo's yesterday in Ypsilanti area around 5:30pm, a gray X at Advanced AutoParts and a 9 heading down Washtenaw Avenue near the giant Asian market.

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Old Feb 14, 2014 | 03:46 PM
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Spotted a silver 8 mr headed south on 75 by big beaver around 5pm yesterday. Looked to be sporting a large fmic.
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Old Feb 16, 2014 | 04:25 PM
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spotted a CLEAN black IX cruising 696 around southfield w/ a blue WRX at 1am last night.... i was the crazy dude in the gold silverado giving you the thumbs UP.... lol.
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Old Feb 16, 2014 | 06:36 PM
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^ That was me. Thanks for the compliments. That Blue WRX was trying to get me to race the whole time to 275.
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Old Feb 16, 2014 | 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by abazaba410
^ That was me. Thanks for the compliments. That Blue WRX was trying to get me to race the whole time to 275.
I was shocked to see a EVO, i was wishing i was in my TB VIII because i was like this dude probably thinks im crazy lol it will be up here next month i hope. i saw him tryna provoke you lol. silly WRX
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Old Feb 24, 2014 | 08:58 PM
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Detroit evo x from Rochester hills

Fellas, hi
I have a grey Evo which is my year round daily driver. I add up a lot of miles, but it's just so much fun to drive this car.
I have seen a white evox with two orange wheels and two blue wheels in the Rochester area. I do spot Evo now and then.
I am also in the mievo forum, but then it's got tones of Evo 8 and 9. Hardly any x.
I need to check out speed factory, but I have visited puretuning in Toledo. It's an hour drive from detroit. Aaron in there is a very friendly guy and they seem to know what they were doing.
It would be great for the Evo x guys to have a meet sometime. Let's plan something and roll out the Evo convoy !!!
hey does anyone here come to coffee and cars at kart2kart?
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Old Feb 25, 2014 | 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by BruteEVO
Fellas, hi
I have a grey Evo which is my year round daily driver. I add up a lot of miles, but it's just so much fun to drive this car.
I have seen a white evox with two orange wheels and two blue wheels in the Rochester area. I do spot Evo now and then.
I am also in the mievo forum, but then it's got tones of Evo 8 and 9. Hardly any x.
I need to check out speed factory, but I have visited puretuning in Toledo. It's an hour drive from detroit. Aaron in there is a very friendly guy and they seem to know what they were doing.
It would be great for the Evo x guys to have a meet sometime. Let's plan something and roll out the Evo convoy !!!
hey does anyone here come to coffee and cars at kart2kart?
My Evo doesn't arrive up here until the end of next month, i would love to do cars & coffee @ kart2kart,

Does any one here live in the Brighton/hartland/howell area, i have a unique problem and need help in that area PM me for details.
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Old Feb 25, 2014 | 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Activ8
Why would you boycott the most important show in town? If you're in the industry or not, it cannot remain the biggest show in NA if attendance numbers drop. We have to keep it in Detroit, plain and simple. Unfortunately, the reality is that it is a one industry town. And this year it was better than the last 4 years, except I missed Lambo and Ferrari

Besides, what else you do you have to do in Jan?
Ok, most important show??? The NAIAS is suppose to be just that correct, the North American International Auto Show... I have been to the Detroit show every year since 2005, with various friends (bleeding over into Canada after), and with my Car Club ever since (also ending up over in Canada) until 2 years after my 3G was hosted at the 2010 Chicago Auto Show. Every year the show has been leaning more and more toward the "Big 3", which for sure of course, it is Detroit after all.. Each year from the time I started to the final straw got worse, the displays were smaller and smaller each year to then fading out certain companies (Nissan, The Big Ones Lambo, Ferrari, Porsche, and the one the majority of us in the club who came to see.. Mitsubishi! along with a few others I can't remember) With the down turn of the funds and the lack of interest I noticed with the show, from using nice glass hand rails to actually the one year using "Club Seatbelt Strap" barriers, I just figured it was time to move to a little better show...

but this year they decided to bring them back..... why take them away!?!?

So I figured until Detroit moves to bring back some of the companies (and have them there every year again like the mid/late 90s) that everyone who comes (to the show) to see, doesn't put all their emphasis on GM (which I could mostly give 2 sh*ts about, focking company being bailed out by the government then the next year turning the biggest profit they ever seen), Ford (not bad but can see any any local towns dealer in MI), and Chrysler (if I wanted to see, I could go out in my shed and look at my Ram), and just plan lives up to the "show's" title, then you will find me booking train tickets and heading to Chicago.

Not to mention, I can walk all over Chicago and try some of the best food in the world, see all I want to see at the show, and take in a beautiful city, to where I take a walk a block off the main strip in Detroit, I am in Ghetto. Maybe I might have to come back though to a broke city though to see the new RoboCop statue that the city "says" they needed.....

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