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I'm sure a few of you are going to be offended, but I don't care.

First on the list (chronological order) is Sirius, all I need is a new power cable because the insulation is coming apart. Well I got it for Christmas and had to get my friends info before I could even talk to them. So I get the info and pretend to be him... turns out its on backorder and they want mine back first otherwise they'll charge the account (my friend) for a full car kit since they only sell the cable with a kit or a new radio. No thanks I'll just wire it to the car and buy another one if I ever want to move it to another car, the little things to get your money.

Second on the list is corbeau, I finally bought the side mounts and generic sliders they sell since their idea of an adapter doesn't work worth a damn. http://www.vilipend.com/~frrax/view_album....bumName=album45 Well the sliders will only work if I put a spacer on top or cut apart the side mount since the locking mechanism gets in the way. I figure I'll deal with that later and bolt together the 1000 pieces of the side mount. Well it looks like there is plenty of adjustability but there really isn't. Most of the holes are unusable since the opening for the lap belt gets in the way. I put it together getting more disgusted because the side mounts will not sit flat on a table after being bolted to the seat, the whole seat rocks back and forth. I loosened ALL of the hardware hoping it will settle, with no luck. If I press down the two high corners the whole seat bends and you can see the 'shoulders' move compared to each other. Then I noticed the front of the mounts are almost half an inch wider than the rear due to the shape of the seat. That'll make locating the holes real fun, if you have to adjust it forward or backward it will never line up with those holes again! After a best guess at tossing it together I get it in the car. The left rear stud in the floor lines up with one of the holes in the mount, but the stud is too short since the bracket is 3/16" thick. The seat is too high, and too far forward. So I sit there and think for a while, decided to start the car up for a while since it hasn't run for a while. Brings me to the third on my list...

Hawker/Genesis battery. For all of you who recommend it, go lick the terminals. Not even enough juice to turn on the check engine light. The winter must have killed it since it started fine in the beginning of December. I bought the battery in October and drove it 2 or 3 times since, that works out to almost $30 per day of actual use. I even disconnected the constant power for the radio. It’s so dead I doubt it will hold a charge again. I was going to get the battery tender but it charges at the wrong rate.

Back to the seat. I sat there quietly thinking for another minute or two. As I'm getting out held the seat down and lifted myself out. Well my luck just got better, my thumbnail got caught on my jeans and bent up about a quarter inch from the tip. Now I'm sitting there struggling to get out of the car with a seat that is too close to the wheel and a pain in the ass to get out of in the first place… with a slightly bleeding thumb threatening to drip on the seat. Once I stoped the bleeding I got the seat out of the car and try to lower it some more. Well thanks to corbeau's brilliant thinking the back of the seat can't go any lower since the nuts won’t fit between the bottom of the seat and the side mount. Now I'm thoroughly disgusted with the seat, it will sit there collect dust and never get used. I doubt they'll take it back since it does have a few minor scratches, I can only guess at their restocking fee. The mount is scratched where the sharp edges of the washers dug in. That brings me to their hardware… it sucks. The bolts are too short and just barely touch the nylon in the lock nuts. You can tell the washers are cheap since they're full of sharp edges. Nice way to build a seat corbeau, and the 'bolt in' adapter, I really appreciate it. I'll make sure to send all my friends.

Hey Kevin, how 'bout a ranting forum so we can let off some steam?