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It was a light weekend It's oppressively humid and I'm in oppressive pain Friend brought his '16 Fusion by for a hectic rear clunk I snugged the rear shock to upper mount nut, seemed to resolve it At 105k, it's probably gonna need rear shocks and upper mounts soon Topped off the coolant...

I'm getting old Soon I'll be like @dishdude or @GON 😔 @AutoMechanic must keep our youthful spirit 🫡 And our attitude towards the Chinese buffet 🥡 Maybe I need the high zinc formula, I got hella joint pain 😤

Didn't realize how much bigger the new one is

A friend's gas n go leased VW came by for its mid lease healing session 🙄 21 months and 7,000 miles into its life 😲 It's a '25 Jetta SE Auto, with the new 1.5T They missed the free 10k service, VW gives 1 month/1k mile grace period on the Carefree maintenance Standard neglect 😔 Cowls, clogged...

South Shore Nissan out in the Island doesn't surprise me one bit Honda of Manhasset, typical scummy Honda dealer Route 46 Group in Totowa, NJ doesn't surprise me either Route 23, I've also heard stories 🙄 Northstar Kia is full of con artists, they gave me the heavy sales pitch, and I was just...

First OCI on the neighbors '25 Kicks, with the prehistoric 2.0 MR20 engine with ~7,000 miles It's from when Nissan was offering two years free maintenance, but they couldn't be bothered to bring it in More business for me 🤷‍♂️ 13 bolts and 5 clips to remove the splash shield 🤔🤨😒🙄 An electric...

We're at only ~200 AQI this morning, and it's supposed to improve throughout the day Nowhere near as bad as 2023, but you can still feel it in the throat/eyes We got some rain coming Saturday, that should help rinse it clean Elders, is this what smog looked like in the 70s? Except brown...

It's getting worse here in the city as night falls Can smell it pretty bad now (not that it's unpleasant, just irritating) The brief heavy rain probably helped, tomorrow will probably be more visible

Front pads & rotors on a '13 Avalon XLE About 90k on it, his complaint was a brake pulsation in the steering wheel So the 6 year old (but 8mm remaining) front pads had to go Forcing screws got the rotors off easily, 3M hub cleaner got the hubs clean Bosch Quietcast pad & rotor combo, ACDelco...

Cabin filter clean? Condenser unobstructed/fans working on all speeds? Ambient air temp reading on dash within realm of reality? Compressor short cycling? Rear A/C functional? If simple checks get you no where, time to either get a gauge set or have someone with an appropriate machine...

Wanna put that on the home page? It's the forums official platform 😄 Good to hear of a competent transmission shop, and a decent part out of the salvage yard I've had a few misses with both Drive on 👍

More popular in Aus? Not used to seeing many Castrol non oil fluids in the US Good to hear of another good brake fluid

*deep exhale* 😒 I got dragged to another disappointment Hyundai club's better than your average Hyundai service department tbf You couldn't give me this Palisade They gave away free towels, which was good because it began to rain Foods alright 🤷‍♂️ Lo mein wasn't up to @AutoMechanic...

We just hit $239 per hr at the local Nissan dealer in the borough I don't know what the Benz/BMW dealer is up to, but closer to $300/hr wouldn't surprise me in the slightest

Every time I say that, it turns out to be very difficult 😭 I keep my mouth shut now

Back on the neighbors '04 Highlander Front active engine mount succumbed to the oxide a while back Finally got a new one in, now it's active again I'm usually sensitive to idle vibration, but it seemed smooth even while broken 🤷‍♂️

At those prices, I'd be inclined to fix it properly 👍