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And two minutes later, there was keys 👏 Ran down the street, had the emergency blanks cut Added key condoms to prevent expensive remote loss again Dealer that sold them the thing wanted $650 for 1 new key 😒 Put it all back together (better than the last guy?) They broke so many clips 😔 Swapped...

Friend dropped off his wife's 2023 Outlander for a broken off piece of door trim That's it, remember this ✍️ I get in it, and catch my boat anchors for feet on something hanging from under the dash Interesting 🤔 I look up under the dash, can't see where this goes, but I see my old friend...

You can't be the proprietor of an Italian restaurant on SI without a branded Fiat 500 It's some kind of unwritten law This one looks like it was on its way to flavor town, but they ran out of paint 😭 Found this really clean '71 P1800 somewhere in Queens Much smaller IRL than in pictures I...

Signs about as tired as we are 🙄

Son to the clown cars Civic nearly crashed it (like said clown car) and decided then was the time to tell me the brakes are loud 🤔 Mhm... Yeah... They were allegedly quiet till the grinding started Ironic it was an outer pad (no AWI) The inner pads on the Civic carry the AWI, except the last...

More remedial work on the neighbors '04 Highlander Upper & lower hose, thermostat, coolant, hatch lift supports Dorman 1.75" constant tension clamps are the closest local approximation to OE Toyota clamps I'm gonna experiment with Wurth brand clamps in the near future He was alerted to the...

Assuming it's an '89 sedan with a 2.0 3S-FE Here's your ATF service instructions (which you've been doing right) https://lemon-manuals.la/Toyota/1989/Camry%20Sedan%202WD%20L4-2.0L%20%283S-FE%29/Repair%20and%20Diagnosis/Maintenance/Fluids/Fluid%20-%20A%2FT/Service%20and%20Repair/ Here's the...

Neighbor crashed his clown car, I was invoked to get it back on the road in a hurry It damaged the core support, drivers side headlight, smashed the cooling fan into the cat, wiring damage, etc Warning: this is a temporary measure Professional body men look away 😒 Got medieval on it with...

Co workers son got a different (take 3?) 2006 Ridgeline Which lasted all of a month, before breaking down and overheating '06 RTL with 144k, I believe I pulled the factory radiator In the parking lot, of the job... 🙄 Due to corrosion and time/tool limitations, I bypassed/eliminated the radiator...

One corner of brakes on the Fusion Good thing I haven't been driving it much lately ...it was time 🤔 Clean enough 👀 After the panic when I used Fluid Film on the hub last brake job, this time I went back to my traditional method of Nickel Anti Seize stick smeared around

Another day's work at the vastly improved LGA Fun to watch the planes coming and going Fumes less choking than JFK for some reason 🤔 Enterprise has a major complex at JFK, chock full of broken new cars and a small army of ADAS/Body/Transport/Maintenance crews running around trying to fix it...

This better be a sick joke/prank...

...7 months was all she could muster in the Fusion (10/25) In a rare moment of Walmart clarity, they no charge swapped me and I was on my way ...with a battery ONE MONTH NEWER (11/25) 🙄 Because it's all they had I let it fully charge before going into service I also gave the iDataLink...