Blake Noble

Looking over the specs, a Seagull actually doesn't seem too bad. North American-made, solid wood construction, cherry back and sides, cedar top ... I'd have to have some fret time to know if it would be a guitar I would recommend to anyone, but it looks really nice on paper for that price.

Fender makes decent acoustic guitars and they've really come a long way in terms of tone and construction. Like I said earlier, the Malibu is a great, inexpensive Fender acoustic that I would recommend. However, Fender has always primarily been about electric guitars from the very beginning. After all, they made the first mass-produced solidbody electric guitar ever (Fender Telecaster) and they make the most recognized, most imitated electric guitar ever (the Stratocaster). Fender only started making acoustic guitars during the 60s when CBS (yep, that CBS) bought them out and took over. So the downside here is that Fender doesn't have the utmost experience in building acoustic guitars that, say, Epiphone (which is really Gibson) does. I have never played a Seagull, but it sounds like a name I would personally avoid.

Here are few suggestions. Let me also say to never go with a cheap, low-end guitar. You want to buy something decent so that if you continue to play guitar, you won't wind up buying guitar after guitar after guitar trying to buy the best inexpensive guitar you can find soon afterward (my mistake). I play my Epiphone Les Paul Standard more so than I did my Fender Gemini II (a discontinued model from the 1980s) that I had that was starting to get really worn out beyond inexpensive repair (the neck was also starting to warp so the action was getting terrible), and I started looking around for a cheap replacement. I went with a Ibanez PF, but here are the guitars you should try to hunt down and check out. Ibanez PF6: The price tag on mine was $200 (I paid $100 for mine because I offered my old Gemini II as a trade), good tone, decent action, good quality. For the price, I can't beat mine. It doesn't offer so much of a high clear tone as it does a deep, rich tone. Fender Malibu: Fender no longer makes horrible acoustic models. An acoustic-electric Malibu CE model will run about $249 from Musicians Friend. I've played a few at a local guitar shop. It offers nice tone that moves to the opposite end of the spectrum versus my Ibanez. Epiphone Hummingbird Artist Limited Edition: I originally set out to buy an Epiphone Hummingbird when I was looking to replace my Gemini II. The Hummingbird, however, was $349 at the time, so it was just a few bucks out of my price range. Epiphone recently released a $249 version that has a few of the more expensive features of the standard Hummingbird deleted for a cheaper price (detailing mostly, like the pickguard inlay). This guitar offers a tone that is a little more neutral than the other two, not as deep and "bassy" as the Ibanez and not as high and "trebley" as the Fender. I would also suggest you check out a few Alvarez guitars as well. If you spend about $250, you can buy a good guitar with a sold top, back, and sides. Anything around $150 bucks isn't of the best quality you can buy on the entry-level end of the spectrum. Avoid names like Johnson, Cort, etc. Nothing but junk. If you don't mind to buy used, buy a Sigma acoustic guitar. These are made by C.F. Martin guitars and offer the same, traditional, amazing tone of a Martin at a lot less money. You can score one at a flea market or pawn shop around $250.

A better question is what is this? It burns ... it burns ...

This further assures the fact I will never set foot in MO (so there's a huge load off of your mind Satty). Besides the fact that MO is basically Bullitt County on a massive scale, the winters there sound about as reliable as a Toyota accelerator pedal. (Yes, a meth joke, KY/MO joke, and a Toyota joke all in the same sentence. Put a ribbon around me.) At least winter here has been winter for once: cold, wet, miserable, and mostly gray, gray, fucking gray. In fact, there should be almost a half-foot of snow on the ground by the time I wake up tomorrow and I've already went drifting in an empty parking lot in my friend's Silverado to welcome this new round of snow.

This is now a troll thread. You all are posting in it.

It's 80 bucks at Jack Burford Chevrolet to run diagnostics. No refunds if they can't repair the problem, no refunds if they do repair the problem. There's no way I would drive this car to a dealership in the Lexington area. The car is running so bad right now, I wouldn't trust it on a trip down the street.

[Cue worst redneck accent:] "It makes me feel like I'm in a jet cockpit when I'm drivin'!" :facepalm: Almost everyone in interviewed in this video is full of fail and is a walking stereotype. Things aren't going rosy red with my Camaro, as I've made vocal elsewhere, and this video now makes me feel ashamed in addition to being already irritated.

I own the Pandora's Box that led to this ... iTampon, the iPod touch. To clarify, yes you can listen to music while browsing the web, and yes it will play 99% of the videos on YouTube. It will also play any Quicktime compatible videos, so in theory, yeah if there was a "mobile pr0n" site that had its videobase Quicktime compatible, you could watch pr0n on the iMaxiPad/iPod touch/iPhone. Then again, my iPod touch is the 2nd generation model that doesn't have the latest iPhone OS (3.0), so who knows what Apple de-contented just so assholes can copy and paste text and use the Bluetooth functionality that was there before Apple even released 3.0. Microsoft may have really tried with the Zune HD, but there's something about its aesthetics that doesn't impress me. And if hackers finally get around to making the 2nd-gen touch able to be totally jailbroken, well, I wouldn't think once about a Zune HD.

What I would like to see Microsoft do is make a media player better than that thing they call the Zune. Some serious competition for the iPod that doesn't look like it was made by some off-brand company in China in 1999 ...

From what I understand Denso sensors are the replacement to buy that has the least amount of issues and are better than stock. Note: Remember how I mentioned the exhaust smelled like the air/fuel ratio was a little lean? Well, now the smell is becoming more and more noticeable ...

Cheapest O2 sensor for my car is sixty-something bucks. That's a Bosch with OEM style plugs vs. universal plugs. A Denso will run around the price you mentioned.

Finally found my reference materials and regarding the dual cats, LT/LS cars had them, not the V6 cars. Ditto my incorrect O2 sensor count. :facepalm:

I believe my car has either 3 or 4 O2 sensors. I want to say 3 because my car does not have dual catalytic converters, oddly enough, because it is my understanding that 1996+ had them. I'll have to reference that to make sure. EDIT: Couldn't reference it, but I think there are 4 total; one on each manifold, one before and one after the cat. I think.

So far, the dudes at Camaro5 forums have only suggested the possibilities of the O2 sensors and the fuel filter. Yep, it's a common problem. Usually it stems from the fact that the 3800 V6 F-Bodies do not have adequate air flowing to the back of the engine to cool the coil packs and plug wires. There was even a recall regarding the plug wires that upgraded all affected ones to AC Delco pieces that had better heat shielding. Replacing and occasionally upgrading these parts will correct the problem more times often than not ... except in the case of my car. Right when I need a luxury like that, I don't have it. So I'm on my own. GM service department prices ... ewwwww. It cost $125 to have a muffler shop replace the cat. Jack Burford's price? Close to a thousand dollars. Yeah, I'm not exactly loaded. Maybe I'm a horrible miser and I don't realize it, but c'mon ... $125 versus $1,000?

Well, I bought what was needed to run a fuel psi test and it's returning somewhere in the neighborhood of 43 to 48 psi. Factory specs are 48 to 55 psi. It's on the low-end of the spectrum but nothing that would really suggest a dead injector. The state the car comes from is honestly a moot point. Really, where's the solid, unquestionable proof that if this car came from New York it wouldn't be doing the same thing? There isn't any. As it turns out this car was originally purchased in Indiana as stated on the original window sticker, it wasn't bought brand new in Kentucky and it's first owner obviously wasn't from Kentucky. I guess the car found its way to Richmond, Kentucky where it was bought by its second owner at Jack Burford Chevrolet, a local preacher (my mother recognized the guy when I found a photo of him and his wife jammed in behind the glovebox door along with a Valvoline instant oil change receipt) because the original owner moved down here or Burford Chevrolet found it at an auction on the IN/KY border. So there you go. Most used cars are not indigenous to the state you buy them in. Who's to say that if I bought the same exact car in California it didn't originally come from Kentucky? I'll say it again: moot point. The fact it is also an F-Body is a moot point as well. Sure, I know some owners aren't exactly bright and "rag" them out to extreme levels. I've seen that first hand. But who's to say that if I bought a turd J-Body in just as good of shape as my Camaro it wouldn't do the same thing. It wasn't just people here telling me to buy a later model car. It was everyone I knew because they thumbed their noses up when they found out what I went through with the Monte, Regal, and Cutlass to some extent (getting screwed on the paint job). I suppose I'm bad to cave in under massive pressure. Usually I'm more hard-headed.

Replaced the cat, still not a single improvement. Gave it a dose of injector cleaner, still nothing. I'm starting to reach wits and end with this stupid car and it's clearly becoming a money pit. I'm close to getting rid of it. I won't get a single dime of my money back on it and there's not a soul who would want to trade for it. Awesome. I've managed to get fucked on another damn car. Lmfao "A new car will be better than the old ones you like to drive. It's the smart thing to buy." Sure.

These are, of course, obligatory.

What were you going to pick up in addition to the G8, cruiser? Provided it's alright that I ask ...

Uh. Yeah. Why is this thread back from the crypt?

Fail. This thread is full of it.

I think we've only now gotten to the main chunk of the iceberg; we still have a little bit further to go. Call it a hunch, but I think there's something else Toyota is keeping from North American buyers that will only double the damage done from today once it is exposed.

OK, here's the band fellas:

Bah. I liked them for their advantages in recording music, that was it.

I'm seriously about an inch away from stepping over the line and joining the "I HATE APPLE!" club. This is essentially what this man has done: