Kmrumedy
Enthusiast
Spring is finally here and decided to do some much needed maintenance and upgrades to my 97 B/W GTS (28,000 miles). I did the following:
1. New tires - upgraded Pilot Sports to new PS2's - It's been said a lot....check your tire codes and dates. The tires that were currently on my car were purchased end of 2004 so I thought I was ok and never bothered to check the dates. The tires looked new and felt sticky. Based on some accidents blamed on bad tires on this forum I checked the dates.....my tires were made in 1999!! The original owner was sold 5 year old tires as new. It pays to check.
2. Changed plugs and wires - AB's wires!!! Qualitywires.com !! OEM plugs. I can't say enough about the quality of this product or the customer service you receive from Adam. Instructions are simple, just change one wire at a time and take your time.
Question – The little plastic mounts that hold the wires are pretty baked by the heat and quite brittle now. I broke one removing a wire (see pic). What are you guys using to secure the wires? Are you simply replacing the parts with new or some other solution?
3. Changed engine and tranny mounts - Based on threads from this forum I saw all the twisted oem mounts that looked fine until removed and checked. My car was babied by the original owner and I don't drive my car hard. Still I decided to change them as a precaution. You can see by the pictures that they were starting to tear. Not nearly as bad as many others I have seen but I am glad I did it. You can't really tell until you get them off. I decided to replace the old mounts with OEM mounts for now. I researched the Woodhouse mounts which have great reviews, but I don't track or drag my car and didn't want the extra vibration. Now I’ve been driving it for a few days, I think I should have gone with Woodhouse. OEM is fine for now. If you have 96-99 car and haven’t changed your mounts I would really look into it.
1. New tires - upgraded Pilot Sports to new PS2's - It's been said a lot....check your tire codes and dates. The tires that were currently on my car were purchased end of 2004 so I thought I was ok and never bothered to check the dates. The tires looked new and felt sticky. Based on some accidents blamed on bad tires on this forum I checked the dates.....my tires were made in 1999!! The original owner was sold 5 year old tires as new. It pays to check.
2. Changed plugs and wires - AB's wires!!! Qualitywires.com !! OEM plugs. I can't say enough about the quality of this product or the customer service you receive from Adam. Instructions are simple, just change one wire at a time and take your time.
Question – The little plastic mounts that hold the wires are pretty baked by the heat and quite brittle now. I broke one removing a wire (see pic). What are you guys using to secure the wires? Are you simply replacing the parts with new or some other solution?
3. Changed engine and tranny mounts - Based on threads from this forum I saw all the twisted oem mounts that looked fine until removed and checked. My car was babied by the original owner and I don't drive my car hard. Still I decided to change them as a precaution. You can see by the pictures that they were starting to tear. Not nearly as bad as many others I have seen but I am glad I did it. You can't really tell until you get them off. I decided to replace the old mounts with OEM mounts for now. I researched the Woodhouse mounts which have great reviews, but I don't track or drag my car and didn't want the extra vibration. Now I’ve been driving it for a few days, I think I should have gone with Woodhouse. OEM is fine for now. If you have 96-99 car and haven’t changed your mounts I would really look into it.
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