Jump to content
CaddyInfo Cadillac Forum

Texas Jim

CaddyInfo.com Staff
  • Posts

    6,020
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    19

Texas Jim last won the day on August 12 2016

Texas Jim had the most liked content!

About Texas Jim

  • Birthday 12/04/1944

Previous Fields

  • Car Model and Year
    2011 DTS Platinum
  • Engine
    Northstar 4.6L V8 (LD8/L37)

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Ft. Worth Tx

Recent Profile Visitors

53,269 profile views

Texas Jim's Achievements

Newbie

Newbie (1/14)

34

Reputation

  1. You've offered good advice in the past, Jim, so here' s another plea for wisdom. My '98 DeVille has recently starred displaying erroneous or inaccurate data. The gas gauge claims I'm low when there's still six or seven gallons in the tank. I've proved this by topping out and watching it hit Full with ten or twelve gallons added.And my AC wants to blow through the defrost ducts instead of the finned dash ducts as it should. This is intermittent...one day it works fine, then the next time I start the car it come through the heating/defrost ducts. If I continue to drive it will sometimes return to blowing through the proper ducts, but I can't control where it come out.

    Any suggestions are welcome, and I'm always grateful for your experience and wisdom. Still enjoying my older Caddy, obviously. Still a fine automobile, despite its age.

  2. If it were only that easy....LOL At least on MY car it isn't and evidently on JohnnyG's car also. I just went to the garage and pulled up one side of the rear seat... it was easier than in my 2006 but I would not classify it as EASY by any stretch of the imagination... it took both hands and a lot of GRUNT to pull it up. Hope I didn't pull a muscle in my left shoulder.
  3. LOL... that may be what the owners manual says... but it isn't that easy. Especially the first time the seat comes out... LOL
  4. Both of my 2006's were really hard to get the back seat cushion up the first time... After that it was a lot easier. And you are right... the lower lip of the seat has to be pushed IN and then the cushion lifted up. I haven't removed the back seat cushion on the 2011 yet.
  5. The picture with the BIG logo is one of the front floor mats... not a trunk mat. I was just trying to show the nice detail in the logo. My trunk mat is the factory original, black carpeted mat... and has DTS Platinum printed on it in silver.
  6. A friend of mine (Brian Stanley) works for Ecklers Corvette in Florida... They are Lloyd Mats... I ordered them thru him... Call him at 1-800-284-3906 The ones I got are the LUXE type... They are a lot thicker and more luxurious then the ULTIMAT. I highly recommend the LUXE if you want real nice mats. I think they are really nice mats. They are NOT cheap, but I don't regret it a bit... they look good.... LOL
  7. I was in London KY last week during the trip. Have a friend that lives there.
  8. I also put Weathertech shades/air deflectors on it. I have always hated how if the window is down even a half inch, rain still comes in. Now I need dark tint on the windows. . . . . . . .
  9. I debated getting the script... kinda wish I had. Heck... I may get another set and rotate them monthly... LOL
  10. Someone had taken the original floor mats out of the car and replaced them with some crappy, cheap, Auto Zone or Wal-Mart specials. I ordered some nicer ones... , , . . . .
  11. Very nice El Dorado.... Thanks for the pictures.
  12. You also need one of those little flat topped caps... like they wore back in the 20's and 30's... http://www.hatsinthebelfry.com/product/belfry-mcdowell.html
  13. The same thing happened to me and it was the radio. With the car off, the driver's door opened, the radio display would shut off; however, it would still be playing. You couldn't hear it via the speakers but if you opened the trunk and listened very closely you could hear it playing. There was some sort of an issue within the computer that didn't allow it to completely shut off. Battery would drain over night. The only fix was to buy another radio. $400 plus bucks later that issue is fix.....for now.....until another "electrical" issue arises. Cadillac has gone to hell in a hand basket. Everyone that I know that has a Cadillac in recent years has had some sort of "electrical" problem. Heated windshield wiper fluid over heating and causing a fire, headlamps flickering on and off up to simply going out, interior lights coming on for no reason and not going off....the list goes on and on and Cadillac doesn't care. I'm switching to Lincoln after this (my third Cadillac). Good luck with your Lincoln... You may want to join a few Lincoln forums and do some serious reading before getting one, but that's up to you. I just traded my 2006 DTS Performance with 140,000 miles on it for a 2011 DTS Platinum. I bought the 2006 DTS new and it was pretty much trouble free for 8 years and 140,000 miles. I never had a radio problem,. I had heated windshield washer fluid and used it a lot... never a problem. I never had a flickering light problem. I never had the interior light come on and not go out. Maybe if the "Everyone I know that owned a Cadillac" would occasionally take them in and have the latest GM updates applied to all the computers and have various TSB's performed, they wouldn't be having all the problems. That's what I did with mine.... IT IS CALLED MAINTENANCE.... Do it and you will have lots less trouble.
×
×
  • Create New...