Winter: Nokian (formerly Nokia) Hakkapeliitta
Summer: Dunlop SP8000

This spring time for new summer rims and tires. Probably SP9000 on 16 or 17" Enkei or similar open rims. And when winter rolls around (again), time for new Hakkas which I'll put onto 14 or 15" steel rims (my current ones are on my stock 15" aluminum rims)

On an Acura Integra 2dr GSR (195mm in the winter, 205mm in the summer)

Bruno

Taking the stock rims off of my car is a nice idea, but not one I'd actually but into practice in NYC, for a few reasons. If the potholes don't mess them up, it will just attract theives. I want to keep the car completely stock on the exterior. Hell, I'm amazed I've owned the same set of little VW valve stem caps for 3 years. (as was everyone who watched me take them off the jetta when I traded it in).

That's what we call it, or some variation thereof. The sad thing is that Cary used to not be a suburb, just a little farming cummunity out in the county. Now both Raleigh and Cary have expanded so much due to the remarkable influx of non-Raleigh-ites that they do actually run into one another. In several places. It's like there's one big shopping mall out there as a border.

I'm afraid you've lost me with the 3x5 reference, though.

Thy are now calling them SP Sport A2's. I think you may be able to purchased them with the moniker of D60 A2 though.


micman2b "and I don't even work in a tyre store..."

Apex is running into the same situation.. Travel down Ten-Ten road and you'll see about 50 new sub-devisions popping up.. I visited my Cousin's new house down there and each subdevision looks the same..

Yang in Raleigh..

3x5?
National Geographic profiled Cary, NC a few months back on the last page where they profile a new Zip code every month. They referred to 3x5s as the look-alike Colonial houses going up each with the same 3 rows of 5 windows each, or some thing like that. I'll have to dig it up...

Sorry, don't mean to offend any one; here in the office SJ and RTP jabs each other all the time. They, of course, laugh at our 3'x5' backyards here in SJ.
--Andrew

And here I was thinking that "3" was refering to the total amount of wheels on the SUV's that were off the road when passing you on the right (out of five, including the spare)

I didn't take any offense. Cary's a nasty little fascist town these days that no one can (or should) reasonably defend. Case in point: A chain restaurant called Houlihan's opened up a location in Cary a few years back. They had an awning that happened to be striped. Wide stripes, like 3 feet wide, and something innocuous, green and brown, IIRC. It was kinda nice -- certainly not ugly. The Cary city council, or whatever, made them replace the awning with a solid colored one. Apparently, stripes are against the building code or something.... Of course, a year or so later, someone was going to open a tin diner right near there. The city council heard about it and made her change her plans so that it wasn't tin (or steel -- whatever -- you know what I'm talking about -- the kind that looks like an Airstream caravan). Then she built it in metal anyway -- thumbed her nose at the city. Got away with it, too. The downside is that it's since turned into what every other restaurant in Cary is like -- too expensive, mediocre, closes whenever it feels like it, and staffed by debutantes who have no interest in actually providing service.

[smoking crack] forget what I said about 3x5's; here's the actual quote:

“five, four, and a door”—a two-story colonial with five windows across the top and two windows on either side of the entrance.

The complete story at:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0106/feature7/index.html

Hey, ya! You were right about the billboards and neon signs. - verbotten in Cary, NC. See article at the bottom of URL.
--Andrew

Chapel Hill did that too.. Only Red Roof Inn that I know of that has a brown roof.. (15-501 and I-40 intersection).. And then a couple years later, Yarnell Hoffer Hardware opens up a new building with a bright orange roof..

How in the hell do people deal with living in places with such f***ed up down ordinances? I never could. I'm reminded of a friend of mine in college who's father received a substantial fine for painting his flower boxes a color not approved by some town board. I'd go berzerk.

Most of the people that live there (these days) are families with 2.6 children who never venture beyond the confines of their homes and offices except, possibly, for an approved trip to the Starbucks or The Gap (The Gap Baby, more likely). It's what they want -- a horrible place that looks like every planned community you've ever seen, except for downtown Cary, which still looks like a quaint small town from the 60s, and is quite pleasant, or as much so as 5 square blocks can be.

Yeah. There's been a bizarre obsession with colonial architecture in the greater Raleigh area for at least 50 years. Probably 70% of all single-family dwellings are colonials of some nature. Higher than that if you just count Cary. I think it must have to do with everyone wanting to look like everyone else. Or maybe conservativism on the part of home builders, which either makes a lot of sense or no sense at all, considering the remarkably high real estate prices here.

The fishing is pretty darn good. When I'm in town, my friend takes me out to a different lake every time.
--Andrew

My dad was a member of a fishing club when I was a kid. But even the regular everyday lakes are pretty good.

Hmmm. An M3 owner near Raleigh. Do you know Dana Bxxxxr? Edit: Thought again about putting his full name on a board w/o his knowledge.

No sir, don't know em. I live in SF, work in SJ. The M3 doesn't do so well in all the snow you guys get. (just getting us back to the original thread...) Sheeesh!! My company has offices in RTP, so I travel there occasionally.
Cheers,
--Andrew