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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...

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...

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...

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)...

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'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...

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...

So a few weeks ago I did a fuel mileage 'test' in my 2000 Corolla. My dad is always doing these tests where he'll run a car out of fuel on the highway, put a gallon of fuel in the tank and drive til it runs out again. I know, stupid way to measure mpg's but this is the test I did, just to see...

My dad has a 2005 Saturn Relay with the 3500 V6. 125000 miles and runs great except it appears to have a charging problem. It seems any time the engine hits around 3000 rpm the headlights and the dash lights start flickering. The charging voltage also seems a bit high at around 14.5 volts...

Well, not entirely. For many years, I pretty much drank nothing but cheap store brand soda/pop, often times 2 liters or even more a day. A few weeks ago, I just decided to cut back. Not out of any particular reason, more like a spur of the moment thing. I've switched now to bottled water from...

Ok, get yer laughs out first. My brother's 2009 Cobalt SS turbo runs around 197 F in normal driving and his cooling fans always seem to be running. He says he's got a 180 F thermostat in it and he swears, sometimes profanity-laced, that the engine should never get hotter than what the thermostat...

I changed the oil on my 280000 mile 2000 Corolla a few weeks ago. Just today while cleaning out my car junk bin, I realized I put 5w20 Valvoline white bottle in my engine, while it calls for a 5w30. Can I safely let it go or should I change it out?

So my brother won a 50 dollar gift certificate to some quickie lube place in town. He took his 2009 Cobalt SS turbo in for the oil change and picked Valvoline Synpower which was an extra 35 bucks on top of the 50 dollar gift certificate. The 'tech' told him to come back again in 5000 miles which...

So yeah, a few nights ago I had a weird dream about a person on Youtube whose videos I occasionally watch. I don't usually remember any dreams in detail like this but this one really got stuck in my head. It's actually been weighing on my mind since it happened. MY dream, summed up in bullet...

My 2000 Corolla just rolled over to 450000 kilometers. Of course these aren't all my kilometers though. Still getting 34 mpg city/highway combined and not even using any oil. I'll put up a video of the momentous occasion later today

So I've noticed my 2000 Corolla with 442800 kms doesn't burn or use any oil if I'm careful to keep the rpms below 3500 but if I start playing with the upper end of the tach then my oil usage goes up quite noticeably. Is that normal? Anything I can look at to see if I can lower my high rpm oil usage?

So a few days ago just as I was parking my 2000 Corolla in my yard, my brake pedal dropped to the floor. I didn't see any fluid leaks nor did the brake warning light come on. With the help of my dad I checked the brake system earlier today. No visible fluid leaks anywhere. We tried bleeding each...

My brother bought himself a Autel X-Star premium about 2 weeks ago and promptly upgraded to the 1.2.8 firmware. He uses my old Galaxy Tab S for the Starlink app control. He's had a fair bit of trouble with losing video sync and some weird range problems. He's still learning and is still a bit...