IceDigger indirectly referred me here from another forum we are both active members at. Just got a 04 CTS 3.6. Unfortunatley a V was not in the budget and we ended up getting the 04 for right at 14K with 60K miles. It's a Black/Tan 1 owner garage kept local non-smokers car. I think we did ok on the price and I'm very happy with the car so far. Looks to be tons of great information and helpful members here. Long term I am planning on some updates on the car such as HID, chrome tips and possibly (tasteful as I dont want it to sound stupid) mufflers with a throatier sound, window tint, and maybe a new grille. Not sure what else yet but anything that's reasonably priced that might offer slight improvements in HP and/or economy.
This weekend - my first with the car at home I did do a couple of minor things. I will say this - whatever engineer came up with the process to change headlight bulbs on this car is one sick and twisted mofo who needs to suffer major pain and suffering.
Until I do go for HID I decided I'll go ahead and change out the bulbs to Silverstar Ultra's for now. Much improved over the factory bulbs but good god what a freaking pain in the ass to change. Another apparent engineering blunder was the retarded Onstar antenna. Would it have been that much more diffucult and expensive to simply use a slightly different rooftop antenna with an additional connector for models with Onstar instead of the stupid looking 90's glass mount thing? So I removed that, stuck it back together, wrapped it in a few paper towels so it would not rattle or buzz and tucked it up into the headliner. I'm not terribly worried if it will have slighly poorer reception as I have no plans on activating Onstar anyhow...
I've only taken one decent photo so far so far so here she is.
