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Man, I came across this old scene from the movie “Five Easy Pieces.” Jack really sticks it to this waitress:

I want you to hold it between your knees!

Man now I GOT to see this movie!  Looks perdy good, here is the trailer:

I had ordered these Lund “In-Channel Window Vents” from Amazon here (Lund 183573). I hate the ones that sit over the window weather stripping but these “in-channels” were the e-ticket baby. I was really apprehensive about getting them because there were no damn pictures of it on a 4 door Nissan Frontier 2007. The 2007 Nissan Frontier has two separate windows (one fixed and one you can roll up) in the rear door. I was afraid it would look stupid, but I took the chance and ordered them anyway thinking at the very least I could keep the front ones. Luckily they really set the truck off.

They were super simple to put on, no drilling and no cutting. You gotta first prime the inner channels where the window rolls up between two pieces of rubber at the top. You need to use the included alcohol pads and the abrasive sponge to make a point of contact for the 3M adhesive strips on the vents.

The front ones go on without a hitch and are relatively straight forward. You remove the red covering tape to expose the adhesive strips on the very front of the vent and the very back. Then you roll back about 2 inches at the two ends of the top strip. You push it up into the window channel and once its snug, you pull the red tape out and that makes the adhesive tape come on evenly. Then roll up the window which holds it against the rubber weather strip.

The back ones were a little strange. Everything is exactly the same as the above, but there is a very thin tab at the rear of the vents. The rest of it goes into the window channel as the front ones, but this little end tab needs to go between the metal pillar and the rubber weather stripping against it. So the sandwich on this tab is metal pillar, rubber weather stripping, window channel, window, rubber weather stripping. Kinda weird but it works and makes for a very good water tight seal that way. You’ll want to leave the windows up for like 24-48 hours so that the 3M adhesive has adequate time to set.

And THATS IT! Yeaup took me maybe 30-45 minutes cause I was being super OCD about it. Here are the results. A closeup from the front:

and here is a picture closeup of the rear:

I am all about conservative and stock look. Hate the gaudy, but these fit the lines of the truck just perfect I think. If you have a truck or SUV these are a must. They let you roll down the window about 1.5 inches without having to worry about the rain while driving. You can even leave em open to keep the car cool when parked. This is a damn necessity now that its starting to be summer here in Texas and those 110 degree temperatures start up.

Go pick yourself up a set, and again, if you have a 2007 Nissan Frontier SE Crew Cab (4 door), you’ll want Lund Model: 183573 “In-Channel Window Vent - 4 Piece” window vents.

I have had Sirius Satellite Radio for almost 2 years, and have honestly only been using it in my apartment. I love it though and listen to it every day in my place. Oddly enough, I get great reception inside my apartment. The last car I had, the RX-8 woulda been a serious pain to put in, so now that I had the truck, I thought it was about time to start using it on the road.

The only thing I had to really do to install this was to put an FM modulator between my factory radio and the FM antennae. This way, while using the FM modulator, I wouldn’t have any interference and the sound would be clear. No big deal, this is a MAYBE a 30 minute job. Well you know shit like this would never go easy for me right.

I opened the truck and removed the top panel on the dash. Then removed the front dash panel easily with my new multi-trim pry tool set which made the whole thing really simple. It also kept me from making any scratches. No problem, I thought now that I see the radio exposed, its a matter of unscrewing 4 bolts and putting the FM modulator. Welp, I bust out my cordless drill to remove those bolts, and get the first one out then …

CLUNK CLINK CLINK CLINK CLUNK TINK TINK

WTF I thought, I looked and the bit at the end of the drill fell off along with the screw into the air conditioning. SON OF A BITCH!

Well its about 8:30, and its getting dark now, all I got is this tiny little flash light to see with:

Of course, before I had started this whole affair, I had unplugged the battery in the truck to not set off the airbags etc so this is the only source of light I have in the dark parking lot. I proceed for the next 3.5 hours to take the whole MOTHER F’ing dash apart in the dark. Managed by luck to get the phillips bit and screw out of the AC and then finish the modulator install. Got it all done at about 11:30 at night in the parking lot. What a freaking pain in the ass, 4 total hours in the dark for a stupid simple install.

Good news is, it worked, and holy crap if it didn’t, I woulda been pissed. The FM modulator works awesome! Now I can finally listen to this thing in the truck. Yeah I know, look at the above, the wires are still laying out, its because I am still deciding where to place the satellite antennae permanently. I am running an experiment for a few weeks to see if the dash will give any big issues. I don’t want to put it on the roof because it will ruin the paint, and I think it looks seriously shitty to have this rat tail running on the body of your vehicle. I wish they would sell the shark fin type that the OEM installs have and BMW uses, but oh well for now, on the dash hopefully it will look okay when I clean it up. I was actually happily surprised too that the suction cup mount proved useful and actually fits inside this slot on the truck’s dash:

KICK ASS!

Man it is so great to have Sirius in the truck. No commercials, no interruptions, and good clean great sounding music. If you have ever been to San Antonio, you will know that this place only has 3 freaking English speaking radio stations! The rest are a hodge podge of Mexican salsa, Mexican organ music, Mexican rap, and mariachi music. Of the 3 English ones, there is only the college radio station and the rock station that is actually semi passable. The problem with the rock station though is that they play the SAME FREAKING 4 songs every day. Literally, I will go to work hearing one song, and go home that day hearing the SAME FREAKING SONG!!! OMG you have no idea how crappy that is and stuck in traffic will want to make you tear your face off. Not to mention sitting through lame advertisements every other song! Satellite radio is a MUST and worth it!

Man I love creativity, especially when it goes along with my sick sense of humor. The following are 3 of the top movie trailer remixes I have found.

Sleepless In Seattle:

A remix of the trailer “Sleepless In Seattle”, cut together to be a horror film:

Honestly when I actually saw the real movie, I thought it was scary enough as it was, but the one above takes the cake.

The Shining:

A remix of the trailer for “The Shining” cut together as a “coming of age, romantic comedy”:

Man doesn’t that just warm your heart?

Titanic 2: “Two The Surface”:

A remix of the trailer for “Titanic” with a bunch of other clips to make this very unique sci fi action adventure.

Man you know if that was a real movie, I might actually go see it. Kinda “Encino Man” meets “Catch Me If You Can” meets “Pay Check”!