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This is for my 2002 Suburban. Here's a bit of history: 5/17/2012, 117,250 miles - Purchased vehicle. 5/5/2014, 135,814 miles - Rear brake pads replaced by a local brake and alignment specialty shop due to cracking of friction material even though there was plenty of material left. New pads were...

About three months ago I moved to Kanab, a small town in southern Utah with a population of 4,500. Much of the town's economy is supported by tourism as the town is a jumping off point for several national and state parks. As a result, we have 18 hotels/motels, a few B&B's, a surprising amount...

This is the Fram Tough Guard air filter I changed out of the Suburban this afternoon. It had been in for just over 40,000 miles and 3 1/2 years and the filter minder showed that it was still good. I was going to take it out to 50k miles but decided to change it while changing the oil and fuel...

The rear struts on the Grand Prix are likely the originals and now have 170k+ miles on them. I am guessing they are shot because I get some bouncing/shaking that I feel mostly in my seat, particularly when accelerating, and when I got the tires rotated last week I was told there was just the...

While driving to the airport on Monday in 110F+ heat, the Grand Prix's cooling system wasn't working too well. My ODBII scanner told me the coolant was sitting at about 212F while cruising at a steady 65 mph. I got back last night and checked the radiator this evening to find: I don't know...

The Suburban has the stock CD/radio/tape deck head unit, a DVD player (flip-down from the ceiling with the player under the second row seats - not sure if it is OEM or aftermarket), an aftermarket amp, and aftermarket speakers. I am wanting to replace the head unit with a CD/DVD/Bluetooth unit...

A few weeks back the Suburban starting making a droning noise from the front end. The sound usually starts when I hit 40 mph, intensifies when I let off the gas and the car begins to slow, and intensifies when turning slightly to the right while traveling at speed, such as when changing lanes...

The thermostat housing on my friend's Explorer is cracked so it will not hold coolant. On this particular vehicle, the housing is integrated in the upper intake manifold, which neither he nor I are confident in our skills to replace. So he will be taking it to a mechanic. The nearest shop I...

I am in Montana this week for work and have an Impala Limited (old body style) for a rental car. As I was leaving town this afternoon I decided to stop by an O'Reilly's Auto Parts. As I was browsing I discovered that Gumout AIO was on sale for $5. As the Impala has just under 22k miles on it and...

I just had a set of Cooper CS5 Ultra Touring tires put on the GP yesterday morning at America's Tire (Discount Tire outside of CA). In the evening I took a closer look and noticed how many stick-on wheel weights were used to balance them. Two had 17 weights each, for 4.25 ounces each, one had...

I will be taking the Grand Prix in to America's Tire on Monday to see about getting the cracking tires currently on it replaced under warranty/certificate (http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/3672117/Tire_cracking_bad_enough_to_be). If they will warranty them then I will...

While changing the oil on the Grand Prix last weekend I noticed some cracking at the base of the outer tread blocks. It looks to me to be more than cosmetic cracking and I am wondering if it is bad enough to take them back to America's Tire to try to get them replaced under warranty or the...

I bled the brakes on the GP tonight and all went well...until I tried to close the last (front driver's side) bleeder screw. It was stuck open, I ended up stripping the head while trying to close it (rookie mistake of using a 12 point box wrench), and I could not get it closed with pliers or...

On right now. There is even a helicopter taking overhead video. Is it a slow news day?

This is the second time I have run G-Oil in the Burb and the first UOA I have run on it and I like what I see. This is the non-Flex Fuel 5.3L V8 and the interval was following the OLM. I ran a Napa Gold 1522 oil filter. The air filter is a Fram ToughGuard (oiled cellulose) with about 23k miles...

I ordered a pair of struts for the GP on Amazon. They arrived while I was out of town this week so I was not able to open them to inspect them until today. Upon removing the product boxes from the shipping box, the first item of concern was that one of the boxes was banged up. I opened that one...

I noticed the pictured wear on one tire of the Burb today. It was only on about an 8 to 10 inch strip on the top section of this tire only. The tire has been on the passenger rear corner for 7 months and 6,500 miles and was last rotated by America (Discount) Tire, so I assume it was on the...

I will be replacing the front struts and strut mounts (KYB), tie rod ends (Moog), front wheel bearing/hub assemblies (SKF), and rear stabilizer bar links (Moog) on the GP next weekend. All of that is a parts investment of about $550. I am thinking of springing another $150 to replace the front...

I will be replacing the front wheel bearing/hub assemblies, outer tie rod ends, and struts on the GP in the coming weeks. My plan was to do the work on a Sunday afternoon and have the alignment done at a local shop that Monday morning. However, I just found out that I have to travel for work on...

My 2006 Grand Prix seems to like snacking on front wheel bearing/hub assemblies. Per the Carfax report I got before buying it, one or both front wheel bearing/hub assemblies were replaced at about 62k miles, the front passenger side was replaced with a Duralast unit the day before I bought it...