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Looking to upgrade from my aging LG G6 at the end of August. It's starting to struggle in some apps and the fingerprint reader/power button is beginning to randomly fail to read my fingerprint. I'm slightly intrigued by the new iPhone SE. The A13 cpu looks to be surprisingly powerful and the 3gb...

CCleaner has a history of packing malware in with its main software. Generally the manufacturer of the SSD you purchased will have an app that will do what you're looking for.

My brother has one. He was using one of those cheap Chinese bluetooth adapters with the Torque app. The cheap OBD2 adapter would sometimes fail during driving and the numbers it spat back were hard to believe. The MX+ doesn't seem to autoconnect to his 2008 Sonata as it should be, being that he...

Picked up a free older 26 inch Mastercraft 8hp snowblower earlier tonight. It was advertised as not running but as soon as I got it home I tried it and it will start and run for about 5 seconds then stall out. I'm guessing what happened since we had a mild winter this past season, the machine...

Usually a part bottle of ATF and some leftover oil from my last oil change

So the '08 Kia Rondo 2.4 I've been driving has an annoying shift flare between 2nd and 3rd but only when it's cold. After the drivetrain is warmed up there is no more shift flare evident to me. To avoid this, when the vehicle is cold I'll let it idle 2 to 3 minutes to get some heat into it then...

Many many years ago, well over 10 IIRC, I had a username that an admin here thought was offensive (it was a [censored] joke!) so I had to change it. I was driving a 93 Geo Metro at the time and since I'm terribly uncreative I chose the SAE rated horsepower for that car as my username. Years...

I picked up a 16 dollar '1080p' dash camera on eBay and installed it into my '08 Kia Rondo. The quality is about what I expected for the cost of 2 McDonald's meals; terribly confusing instruction manual, grainy overzoomed video, flimsy as [censored] build quality..my main issue is that it picks...

Backstory: My dad is gifting me his old 2008 Kia Rondo EX. He 'upgraded' to a 2014 Honda Odyssey and the used car dealership he bought the van at was only willing to give him $1000 on a trade in so I guess he figured he'd just give it to me. It has just a hair under 240,000 kms (149129 miles)...

Another no-data GPS for Android phones is Sygic. I've had it for years. Not ad supported, but there is an option to buy a lifetime license for something like 70 dollars although they have sales a few times per year. I think the entire continental US and Canada maps are around 6-7gb, and the app...

I still have a 4 year old Garmin in my car, and since I have a limited data cap and I'm on a network with very poor rural coverage, I use my 'old fashioned' GPS unit most of the time. Plus I'd rather not have give my data regarding my travels to Google anyway

So yeah, haven't posted here in a long while. My dad just got himself a 2006 Equinox (only 117kms/72700 miles) with Versatrak AWD which works a treat but makes a slightly uncomfortable groaning sound when activated such as when in deep snow. At no other time does the AWD system exhibit any...

I learned the basics of clutch operation, and later clutchless speed shifting, on a beater 250cc Honda Rebel motorcycle. Later on my dad had a 5 speed 85 4 cylinder Cherokee that I cut my teeth on, so to speak. My first manual transmission car was an 88 Tempo

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An old Honda 250 Rebel motorcycle, but the first manual tranny in a car I drove was either the 84 2.5 Cherokee with a 5 speed or the 85 2.2 5 speed Voyager my dad had. My proper first car with a stick was my old 87 Tempo GL

Synthetic can be used in anything old or new, the main issue with synthetics is the upfront cost. Synthetic oil can generally be used in a properly running engine for much longer than conventional oil so if you're keen on keeping up maintenance you would probably save money in the long run with...

I've always wondered, should you shut your AC off first before shutting your car off? I always do whenever I drive someone's car (my AC doesn't work) but I never see anyone else do it. Am I just being nitpicky?

My brother's 2009 Cobalt SS has a really terrible lower right control arm bushing that needs replacing ASAP. Will he need to replace the entire control arm or can the bad bushing be pressed out? His Cobalt has the FE5 sport/performance suspension with aluminum control arms. I know this isn't a...

Eww, McAfee. Even John McAfee himself doesn't like it lol. I use Malwarebytes and if I get a nasty infection I use Roguekiller

My old Lawnboy mower I got for free almost 4 years ago has been sitting shoved underneath a porch for over a year since something in the recoil mechanism fell apart. I'd like to be able to get it running again, although I don't have any real need for a mower, so I can annoy my PITA neighbours...