Recent content by rfh928

Great! I've since moved out east to Bowmanville so even further removed from Richmond Hill. But being out of warranty our local indie garage does a great job servicing all of our vehicles at very modest prices. Take care.

Funny enough I bought my C7 at Wilson Niblett...great dealership all around, but as we lived at the very eastern Scarborough city limits I wound up taking it to Boyer in Pickering for service while it was under warranty. When I first asked the service advisor (who'd been there for decades...

Not sure if it's similar but I had the same with my C7 early on. The dealer initially couldn't figure it out, so I did some research myself online and found that there was an 'afterblow' feature which sounds weird but essentially it runs the blower motor after the engine is shut off...to get...

2nd one...black...looks cool

Not sure what 'tag system' is but we've been with Co-operators for a few years now after they gave my wife a corporate rate on home & car insurance (now retired but they still honour it). I've been paying less than $1,000/year for my 2019 C7 since it was new.

Great! I haven't had a chance to go there since they moved it to Uxbridge from Oshawa a couple of years ago.

There are a number of shows in the next month that are all really good - 2 are generally focused on classic cars of all types, including some Corvettes and the other is the largest British car show in North America. I went there for the first time last year & plan to go back in September. My...

I haven't been to that one yet but Jon and I used to go to the same event when it was at the lakefront in Oshawa. They moved it a couple of years ago after decades as they apparently ran out of space in the park there.

There are a couple of cool auto shows coming up in the next couple of weeks: https://ontariovisited.ca/kars-on-king-oshawa-2026/ https://autofestnationals.com/

I won't be giving up my 2019 M7 ... even if future Corvettes offered a manual again, I doubt whether I could afford one with the base price having gone up by $25K in the past 7 years since I bought mine.

Very nice Murray...really sorry again that Jon & I had to miss it this year. Jon & his wife Erin's baby shower that afternoon went really well - hopefully we'll see you next year!

It's been many years since I had my C3, but both for it and my later C5 I was able to source out a new rad @ Canadian Tire at the time. Never had any issues with either of them after they were installed (the labour I had done at my trusted mechanic's).

Retired and semi-rural...well Bowmanville with 40,000 residents is a LOT smaller than when we lived in Toronto anyway :cool:

Only 21,000 on my 2019, and it's a (more or less...) daily driver other than the winter months :canada:

I have an excellent indie body shop in Pickering, but that's a bit far from you. They've worked on my C3, C5 and C7 along with other vehicles of ours, for the past 30 years. Do a terrific job for half the price of larger shops. If you don't mind travelling that far, happy to provide details.