Alero In Europe

[RoninKouga]

Hi!!!

me's from germany. I have a 2002 3.4 alero (its called chevrolet alero here) it's a sedan and i luv her ^--^

http://www.darkbring.de/alero01m.jpg

i just removed the speed governor which limited at 125 mph via dhp reprogram, but i want to do some more modifications in the future. i think i will install a k&n cold air intake next stage and then may be a bigger throttle body.

its fun driving this car, i had a mercedes E290 turbodiesel before but the motor went down @ 40k mls so i was quite disappointed and had not much money, so i saw her and got her w/o knowing anything about it. but it was really a lucky shot. since this car is quite rare here many ppl look when they see it ^--^

i hope i can gather informations here and have phun.. and i am apologizing in advance for my worse english will post here :lol:

ronin

[Vtolds]

Welcome to the site, you should debadge the car and maby put the Oldsmobile Emblems on.

[Youngblood77]

Originally posted by VTOLDS@May 14 2005, 05:46 PM
Welcome to the site, you should debadge the car and maby put the Oldsmobile Emblems on.
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Are you on crack, Danny? The Chevrolet emblems give that car character.....

Welcome to the boards, Ron ! :thumb:

[Redog]

Welcome

Cool a red Alero in Germany :thumb:

[johny_boy32]

Aleromod has gone global...welcome to the site

[jackal2000]

welcome to the site

[smlzalero]

Welcome!! Don't worry about your English... so far you speak better than half the people on here! :thumb:

:lol:

[RoninKouga]

*loL* thanks so far ^-^
it is hard to find parts for the car here. do you know some good online shops that send international?

[smlzalero]

Have you tried any of the site sponsors? They're on the FRONT PAGE (http://invision.aleromod.com/index.php?act=portal) of the site...

[Oldsmopimp]

Welcome to the site!! Ur english sounds fine... errr... 'looks' fine, lol. The car is cool, you should give us some pix of the front, sides, and interiors...Id like to see the diffrences

[Kurt Zee]

welcom ronin!! its good to have ya on the site...i hope you find all the answers you are looking for!

[aLeRogrL21]

Wow Germany! Welcome to the site and maybe I'll see you around the board. Cool ride!

[Wild Country]

My ex-wife is in Germany. If you see her, run her off the road for me.

BTW... welcome!

[eag182]

not that were neglecting croalero

[Crolero]

Hey RoninKouga, welcome to the site. We gonna have to have an international section to the board soon. :lol: that makes 2 Croats, 3 Germans, and 2 Sweeds here! (i dont think im forgeting someone)

RoninKouga there are a lot of companies that will ship internationaly, but also there are a lot of products that are made in germany/italy/UK that GM uses in the states. its just the searching for companies is a pain. gl :thumb:

what part of germany are you in?

[RoninKouga]

WOW as much answers ^---^ :beerchug:
Originally posted by smlzalero@May 15 2005, 03:21 AM
Have you tried any of the site sponsors? They're on the FRONT PAGE (http://invision.aleromod.com/index.php?act=portal) of the site...
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Hey nice collection ! thx.
My ex-wife is in Germany. If you see her, run her off the road for me.

if she drives a Fiat or somethin' this even wont'make scratches to the alero :grin:
you should give us some pix of the front, sides, and interiors...Id like to see the diffrences
i believe there are not much differences, but i'll make some Photos today. shes a lil dirty today, but its sunday and all the wash-boxes are closed here. Another thing is that i still ride w/ my winter tires so don't roll over for laughing when you see the small 195-wide tires :lol:
what part of germany are you in?
my home town is near Hannover in Niedersachsen. It is called Goslar. But due work i had to move to the Swiss Border, 5 minutes away from Basel (suiss) so i gotta drive home often .. ist approx. 400 mls :wacko:

[Crolero]

then your not to far from me at all. im in Zagreb Croatia, thats about a 4 hour ride from Basel.

[RoninKouga]

WOW!

i's gotta be hot there now i think... you lucky man!

[Crolero]

not yet :lol: its still a bit chily but if its anything like last year....take vacation and hit the beach!

have you been down here on the Adriatic befor?

[RoninKouga]

two times yet. but from the italian site :)
nowadays i drive to the "garda lake" in italy if i want to have a funny weekend or recreation coz it's not as far. this year i even do not have too much hollydays left, since i went on a trip in april. but i think i gotta check 'your' adrian site some time ^-^ must be nice.

[Crolero]

if your ever passing through definatly hit me up. it be great to see another Alero in europe. and im always up for a road trip. :lol:

[RoninKouga]

man you can bet. i'll do :) ill take my tent in the trunk and some german beer and then we make the "first overseas" alero meeting XD

by the way, how much is gas in croacia?

[Crolero]

that would be the second meet :lol:
check out this post
http://invision.aleromod.com/index.php?showtopic=11898

I was in duisburg a few months ago and drank Pilsner all day, good stuff :thumb:

gas here is about 1.02 euros/liter for EuroSuper Plus 98. i dont put anything else but 98 in, the 95 is half water and dirty.

whats gas in DL?

[RoninKouga]

*lol* nice shots.

as you described, when you opendes the container as you got her... i felt absolutely the same when i got my key from the car import company and started her engine for the first time. and yeah, it does cost arm and lag for paying taxes for a 3400 ccm car in europe. its about 480 €uros a year. but i had a 2900 ccm diesel car before, it was way more expensive, but diesel gas is cheaper then real gas here. so its a calculation matter (for guys wo buy a car just to drive - not for loving it ;)

gasoline is about 1.20 € / liter i think - i do not ofen go to german gas stations coz in suiss i'ts about 1.00€. i do only fuel with normal (95 octane) gas coz as fewer the octane you can drive your car without having your engine on "knock retard timing" as more power it has.

as for the pictures of the car. i'm currently uploading them and having it done in about half an hour.

ah.. ure absolutely right alero is unstealable in europe. i saw 6 only the last 3 years, but it happens to be a fact that one alero owner lives in the same town then me. its a black 3.4 one. i did not stopped by to him, coz he is the owner of a large company and i think he has few time and other things to do but everytime we see us on the street w/ the aleros we are greeting :grin: its something special to drive alero here.

[Crolero]

Originally posted by RoninKouga@May 15 2005, 06:57 PM
:grin: its something special to drive alero here.
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aint that the truth!!!


the best part is when people take pictures of your car at a stop light. especially when there is a BMW, Audi or MB next to you. makes them jelous as hell. i'd love to see more pics. ive noticed that Aleros in europe dont have the spoiler on them. from the few that i've seen im still the only one that has a wing.

[RoninKouga]

finally ... the pictures.

i am sorry - but i'm not good with tumbnail scripts - so i just posted the pics in full size, 5 per site on 4 sites. ill get a script next days, as for now its recommended to open the site only w/ highspeed connections (DSL+) every page aproximately contains 2 mb

the link is here:

Ronin's Page (http://www.darkbring.de/alero/)

sorry for the inconviences.

[Crolero]

nice, i see that they took off the Olds emblems in the front and the back. you thinking of getting the Oldsmobile badges to put on there? what year is that?

[RoninKouga]

its first registred in 12/2001 but according to the VIN its a late 2000 alero. must have been in the container for a long time ;)

i'm won't badge it with olds badges, i think about debadgeing it completely since they have stolen my front badge as you may have seen on page 4.

they have started to sell crappy "kia" or "daewo" cars or something like that from korea or somewhere under the name chevrolet in germany this year (its really crap of cars) so allmost every GM owner here is absolutely upset about this. the whole gm group has been teared into mud by this here i think. maybe im seeing that a littele to strict ;)

[Crolero]

i feel you on that Chevy Daewo thing. they have all these GM flags at the dealerships but they are only selling crap cars. I actually pulled into one just too mess with them a bit. I told them i needed my oil changed. they looked at me funny. then i asked if this is where GM's where sold. the guy said yes. i agian asked them to change my oil the guy was shocked. He's got no clue what a real chevy is let alone what a GM car looks like. i told them id do it myself then. :lol:

[RoninKouga]

*LOL!*

i think i would have fallen over of laughing in this situation.

just when i think about that - i remember something alike when in had her new and the tire warning signal came up. the car was new so i didnt want to mace any experiments.

i drove to a garage which was called "US - Car specialists" in germany. actually it was an old thick but nice german guy who even didnt speak english. he took my user manual and was gone for sorta half of an hour or 45 minutes. then he came back and pressed the reset button, laughed and sent me away with taking no money for it.

i think he read the whole manual (which is written in german) hehehe.

[Oldsmopimp]

Thats hilarious how they just leave the front fascia blank of an emblem..... Looks good tho man!

[RoninKouga]

it has been stolen thats the reason why its empty :P

the original badge was this

http://www.darkbring.de/logo.jpg

i have the gm part# of the blue bowtie so i ordered one, but i cant find the oval plate at all.

[StockAlero00]

Welcome to the site. Nice to see more people from around the world join aleromod. You know I wonder if other car sites are global too?

[RoninKouga]

Originally posted by StockAlero00@May 15 2005, 10:45 PM
You know I wonder if other car sites are global too?
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hmm i dunno, only thing i can say that i sorta accidently sipped over from grandamgt site to this place. and it seems to be a lucky coincidence that the site was down for some hours, else i think i wouldnt have found this place.

[Crolero]

its a good thing that you did :lol:

the only pontiac in europe sold i belive is the ugly pontiac spaceship looking minivan. whats it called....?

[RoninKouga]

uh i dunno. but i do know a lot of old pontiac firebirds here, it was pretty often sold in the 90's here. but i dont like the design :)

by the way, have you made any performance mods on your aleros?

[Cliff8928]

Looks nice... It's neat to see all the tweaks that they make to the euro-spec cars versus the regular US ones. I really would like a set of the genuine euro headlights. Does the owners manual go over the euro specific options (like the headlight levelers and the rear fog light?)

[AleroBloke]

:popc1: So interesting, I wish i lived in europe....

[Crolero]

Originally posted by RoninKouga@May 15 2005, 09:13 PM
uh i dunno. but i do know a lot of old pontiac firebirds here, it was pretty often sold in the 90's here. but i dont like the design :)

by the way, have you made any performance mods on your aleros?
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not yet, im gonna get a WAI from Naich and thats about it. nothing really amaizing, i just like to keep her clean. id like to get some tint and maybe lower her sometime. but we'll see what happens.

[RoninKouga]

Originally posted by Cliff8928@May 16 2005, 04:35 AM
Looks nice... It's neat to see all the tweaks that they make to the euro-spec cars versus the regular US ones. I really would like a set of the genuine euro headlights. Does the owners manual go over the euro specific options (like the headlight levelers and the rear fog light?)
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hi cliff. i took some photos of the lights and scans of the user's manual for you. you can find it
here. (http://www.darkbring.de/alero/index5.htm) :)

i am thinking about installing a k+n CAI because i like the sound given to the engine by this tool. but i do search an international shipping online shop that can provide a cai tube w/o too much plastic flanges, i mean a system that can be assembled directly to the throttle body.

[Daytona]

Welcome aboard, Ronin. Looks like you're fast making friends.

[Crolero]

Originally posted by RoninKouga@May 16 2005, 09:04 AM
i am thinking about installing a k+n CAI because i like the sound given to the engine by this tool. but i do search an international shipping online shop that can provide a cai tube w/o too much plastic flanges, i mean a system that can be assembled directly to the throttle body.
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get the one that Naich makes, its made to fit perfectly to our engie and its not that cheap plastic stuff, its great. take a look at this post to see more. Naich also quoted me shipping around 35 USD for 3-5 day shipping. So its not a bad deal. And you get a custom made CAI for the 3400.

http://invision.aleromod.com/index.php?sho...6&hl=naichspeed (http://invision.aleromod.com/index.php?showtopic=11336&hl=naichspeed)

[RoninKouga]

yea, i discovered it right after your last post where you mentioned it, and i wrote an inquiry to naich XD.

i saw a pic of his cai and i believe that its really done well, coz he didnt use this flexible fluff accordion blah flangues(i donno how to describe them XD my english isnt very well after all :) i'm sorry) that cause air turbulences.

i'm lookin forward to get an answer from him.

[cannaert]

Thats is so cool seeing an alero in DL. By the way i want you headlights they look so cool.

[alero440]

Totally dig the red (mines red too) Sweet to see Aleros globally. As for the chevy thing.. Maybe I'll do that to mine, lol. Anyway welcome to the site!!

[RoninKouga]

since they label POS cars from korea (former daewoo) "chevrolet" here i think about assembling a "grand am" badge but i still wonder if this is ok...

i's a shame that they are using this label for such trashy cars..

[Crolero]

Ronin, just get the Oldsmobile ones, getting the GA ones would hurt the Alero's feelings :)

[j-work]

Welcome to the site!!