What Did You Do With Your Kizashi Today?

SamirD · Sat Jun 07, 2014 4:57 pm

Had the sunroof open waiting for the wife at work, and a bird pooped on the car in such as way that it splattered into the interior.

Luckily, I still had the leather wipes in the car so I quickly wiped down the places where it splattered.

Caught up on the forum and started thinking about all the things I still need to finish on the car.

SamirD · Mon Jun 09, 2014 12:11 pm

On Friday I was admiring the car from a distance and noticed an odd reflection in the side of the front fender arch--there's a dent there like someone hit it with a car door, but no impact. I went to check the other side and it had the opposite bend, actually being pulled out a bit.

I suspect this is damage from the chassis twisting from when I went off road in the winter entering my wife's work parking lot.

Or it could have been existing damage, but I think the previous owner would have showed me as he knew every ding on the car.

SamirD · Mon Jun 09, 2014 12:11 pm

I inspected the engine noise with my stethoscope as well.

redmed · Mon Jun 09, 2014 5:40 pm

I was arraigning stuff in my garage and found a air horn. Got me to thinking it would be neat putting it on the Kiz. It is a plastic aftermarket horn about six inches long with a separate small electric air pump. Where on the Kizashi is the horn and is there room nearby to put another horn? I would put a switch inside the car to switch between the OEM horn and the air horn so I can choose between a slight annoyance and someone I want to jump out of their skin.

Mon Jun 09, 2014 5:52 pm

redmed wrote:I was arraigning stuff in my garage and found a air horn. Got me to thinking it would be neat putting it on the Kiz. It is a plastic aftermarket horn about six inches long with a separate small electric air pump. Where on the Kizashi is the horn and is there room nearby to put another horn? I would put a switch inside the car to switch between the OEM horn and the air horn so I can choose between a slight annoyance and someone I want to jump out of their skin.

The Kizashi has two horns. They are directly behind the bumper next to the fog lights/air dams. If you look carefully, you will see a number of slits there. The horns are directly behind those slits on each side.

You can see the horns in my thread here:
http://www.kizashiclub.com/forum/viewto ... =32&t=2329

redmed · Tue Jun 10, 2014 2:44 am

KuroNekko wrote: The Kizashi has two horns. They are directly behind the bumper next to the fog lights/air dams. If you look carefully, you will see a number of slits there. The horns are directly behind those slits on each side.

You can see the horns in my thread here:
http://www.kizashiclub.com/forum/viewto ... =32&t=2329

Thanks I'll have to check out if I can fit the horn in there.

paininthenuts · Wed Jun 11, 2014 5:31 pm

redmed wrote:I was arraigning stuff in my garage and found a air horn. Got me to thinking it would be neat putting it on the Kiz. It is a plastic aftermarket horn about six inches long with a separate small electric air pump. Where on the Kizashi is the horn and is there room nearby to put another horn? I would put a switch inside the car to switch between the OEM horn and the air horn so I can choose between a slight annoyance and someone I want to jump out of their skin.

That sounds like brilliant fun. When I was young I had my windscreen jets facing outwards, and would stop at as many Zebra crossing as I could, so I could squirt the pedestrians.

Wed Jun 11, 2014 6:00 pm

paininthenuts wrote:
redmed wrote:I was arraigning stuff in my garage and found a air horn. Got me to thinking it would be neat putting it on the Kiz. It is a plastic aftermarket horn about six inches long with a separate small electric air pump. Where on the Kizashi is the horn and is there room nearby to put another horn? I would put a switch inside the car to switch between the OEM horn and the air horn so I can choose between a slight annoyance and someone I want to jump out of their skin.
That sounds like brilliant fun. When I was young I had my windscreen jets facing outwards, and would stop at as many Zebra crossing as I could, so I could squirt the pedestrians.

I did something similar with the rear jet on my GTI to spray tailgaters

redmed · Thu Jun 12, 2014 1:27 am

paininthenuts wrote: That sounds like brilliant fun. When I was young I had my windscreen jets facing outwards, and would stop at as many Zebra crossing as I could, so I could squirt the pedestrians.

That sounds like fun also.
I had read of guys getting a Mattel Hot Wheels toy radar gun to record the speed of other cars and cause radar detectors nearby to go off, causing them to slow down. I almost got one but thought why would I want the cars around me to slow down?

SamirD · Thu Jun 12, 2014 2:02 am

redmed wrote:I had read of guys getting a Mattel Hot Wheels toy radar gun to record the speed of other cars and cause radar detectors nearby to go off, causing them to slow down. I almost got one but thought why would I want the cars around me to slow down?

I actually found one of these on sale many, many years back at a toy store for $12. I should have picked it up. I just wanted to test my radar detectors.

Sprayed down the hubs and rear sway bar links with pbblaster. I think the passenger side wheel is now wobbling a bit because the rust is no longer holding it as taught.