# GM. Not Real Actors **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** chevrolet\ **Created:** [May 13, 2017, 12:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859 "2017-05-13T00:50:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/21 "2017-05-14T19:03:41Z")
In my neck of the woods tivo is kind of a generic term not hardware specific, like a xerox could mean any kind of copier, or really stretching to keep it car related a ford could also be a Lincoln or mercury. ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/22 "2017-05-14T19:43:36Z")
Well, in my neck of the woods, the term tivo is definitely not a generic term the term dvr is a generic term in my neck of the woods, and would include tivo In fact, tivos aren’t very popular in my area, and most of my colleagues have never even heard of the company However, to keep it car-related, when I lived in europe, many people would refer to ANY off-road type 2 door body on frame 4wd vehicles as “Jeeps” . . . I always winced when I heard them doing this. ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/23 "2017-05-14T20:51:10Z")
Definition of TiVo transitive verb : to record (something, such as a television program) with a TiVo device or other DVR I have even said I wish I had tivo for my car radio, and people know what I mean. > **[Definition of TIVO](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/TiVo)** > > to record (something, such as a television program) with a TiVo device or other DVR… See the full definition ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/24 "2017-05-14T22:57:40Z")
Yeah well, I’m just holding off until it becomes obsolete, which sounds like might be now. What’s wrong with a VCR anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/25 "2017-05-15T00:05:44Z")
The problem with a vcr is it is always blinking 12:00, besides as Jay Leno once said his parents keep the remote in a drawer, afraid if they miss they might blow up a vase. ---
**Author:** ![sgtrock21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/sgtrock21/32/246_2.png) [@sgtrock21](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sgtrock21)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/26 "2017-05-15T00:33:27Z")
I still have my original VCR a Sony Beta Max Hi Fi with a couple dozen tapes. Two VHS VCRs with many tapes. I can’t remember when I last used them. My DVR is used pretty much daily. My first vehicle tape player was a 4 track. I had two 8 track recorders! My Kia has USB. I have converted nearly all audio to mp3. ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/27 "2017-05-15T02:56:06Z")
Gotta be right, eh? I’ll say one more thing, and then I’m done with this . . . there is that weird r after the name TiVO, which makes it clear the name is a registered trademark ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/28 "2017-05-15T19:06:23Z")
Not to change the subject when we are talking TIVO, but I’ve got a 2017 Malibu as a loaner from the body shop. I’ve only put a few miles on it but my first impression is boring. I just don’t like it. Sure it’s smooth and once I shut the window, quiet, but just kind of lumbering, like the old Chevy Impalas of the 70s and 80s. I thought the Malibus were supposed to be sportier like back in the 60s? Maybe i’ll change my mind, but I think this one is off my list, even though it is rated very high. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/29 "2017-05-15T21:30:25Z")
> [@bing](#): > > I thought the Malibus were supposed to be sportier like back in the 60s? Maybe i’ll change my mind, but I think this one is off my list, even though it is rated very high. So, can we assume that–unlike the supposedly “real” people" in those incredibly annoying Chevy ads-- you are not sitting in the driver’s seat exclaiming, “Wow!”, over and over again? However, in all seriousness, before totally dismissing that model’s handling ability, I think that it would be a good idea to check the tire pressure. I can recall when we (mother, father, me, and brother) took a test drive in a new '66 Galaxie. I found the handling to be really terrible, but then I found that the tires were inflated to only 16 psi. I increased the pressure to 26 psi, and found that it handled as well as any other American sedan of that era. (Translation=not great handling, but light-years better than it had been with only 16 psi in the tires.) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/30 "2017-05-15T23:06:49Z")
It’s meant to be a family car, in competition with the Camry. I don’t think “good handling” goes with the Camry either, unless it is the sport model with the V6. ---
**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/31 "2017-05-15T23:28:48Z")
Don’t the 2017 Malibu’s have TPMS? Tester ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/32 "2017-05-16T00:35:52Z")
I thought it was the current Impala that “all” the auto magazines were raving about . . . ? I also read some reviews about the current Malibu, and I didn’t sense a lot of excitement ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/33 "2017-05-16T01:28:09Z")
I dunno. The one I read (don’t remember which one) rated it 1 out of 17. I was just trying to figure out what engine it had since I couldn’t even find the spark plugs to see if it was a four or a six. Took me 5 minutes to try and get to AM radio instead of FM. Buzzer goes off backing out of the garage, going into the garage so must have the avoidance system and then if you try and leave the fob in the car with the window down so you don’t lose it, the car honks at you and wakes everyone up. Nothing wrong with it, I just think it’s even bigger than my old Olds 88 diesel was. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/34 "2017-05-16T03:10:48Z")
> [@Tester](#): > > Don’t the 2017 Malibu’s have TPMS? The Firestone recall in the late 1990s (which was linked to more than 100 deaths from rollovers following tire tread-separation), pushed the United States Congress to legislate the TREAD Act. The Act mandated the use of a suitable TPMS technology in all light motor vehicles (under 10,000 pounds), to help alert drivers of under-inflation events. This act affects all light motor vehicles sold after September 1, 2007. ---
**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/35 "2017-05-16T03:15:09Z")
> [@VDCdriver](#): > > However, in all seriousness, before totally dismissing that model’s handling ability, I think that it would be a good idea to check the tire pressure. I can recall when we (mother, father, me, and brother) took a test drive in a new '66 Galaxie. I found the handling to be really terrible, but then I found that the tires were inflated to only 16 psi. Shouldn’t you be directing your comment here? Tester ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/36 "2017-05-16T12:24:00Z")
Of course it has a TPMS system. However, it is entirely possible that somebody who is borrowing/temporarily driving a loaner car might not be familiar enough with the warning lights, gauges, and controls to have noticed a TPMS light. 😔 ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/37 "2017-05-16T18:45:28Z")
Tires are fine. Its only got 500 miles on it so nothing is out of whack. Usually I rent small cars so just not used to the waddle of a boat. Still wondering why the collision avoidance system dings when I’m backing out of the garage. Nothing there except an open door unless it sees the side of the garage. No owners manual in the glove box either to look at. Surprisingly to me anyway is that that 4 cyl turbo with a 6 or 8 speed transmission does seem to have fairly decent acceleration. I’d prefer a plain V6 but they are becoming rare in the last few years. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859/38 "2017-05-16T19:53:13Z")
The owner’s manual is often in the trunk of a rental car. Look under the floor where the spare tire used to be. The collision avoidance system sees either the side of the garage or the driveway. If your real driveway slopes up coming out of the garage, that might be it. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gm-not-real-actors/103859.md?page=1)