What did VEX put in your cars?
Educated guess motylgear 75w90. I haven't noticed much of the cold notchyness with my tranny running the fluid, but my fozzy stays in the heated parking garage.
This. It was provided in the "fluid change" special VEX put on around this time last year. Something about how the shifter feels when it's cold is.... not right. When I get to the stop sign at the end of my street right after leaving my house, its pretty tough to get the car into first gear. Even tougher than the >300,000km 5 speed trans in the wagon. It feels great as the car gets closer to operating temp though. This fluid probably just doesn't like to be cold.
I bought one of these so that I didn't have to use an aux cord anymore
http://www.amazon.ca/Kinivo-BTC450-Bluetooth-Hands-Free-Input/dp/B009NLTW60
Thats a pretty cool idea, and I have considered options like that, but shortly down the road I would like to retrofit a full touch-screen unit to use that will allow me to do all kinds of things apart from just adding bluetooth such as changing songs from the screen, utilixing steering wheel controls, improving sound quality, adding a sub, etc... For now, the aux cable is just fine.
Car looked really good when I saw it yesterday. I'm not sure how to describe it, but driving off, it was smooth and sleek. I'd avoid high speeds if it shakes that bad though... I'll get the Wagon back to you as soon as I can!
(late) Thanks for the compliment Johnny. It doesn't look too bad from a distance, but there is room for improvement. I say it is a 10ft to 15ft car
I paraphrased poorly - start at around 5:50 for shifty talk. The whole video is pretty entertaining.
https://youtu.be/nCVA7_6uzZ0?t=5m50s
This is my favorite part of that video
https://youtu.be/nCVA7_6uzZ0?t=10m55s(and the subaru nearly eats itshay)