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I put raybestos E3 pads and rotors last year end of fall while swapping on winter tires. This year while swapping tires the front rotors looked like this. I logged down the mileage when I put them on. The car is garaged and it accumulated 3k km since first installed. It's rusting faster than...

Any recent experience with powerstop, centric or raybestos reman calipers? How long have they work for you say in the last 3 years? Has any of the ones you installed lasted over 2-3 years and generally which brand has higher QC?

2001 RX300 close to 300k km Was told that car shakes while braking at high speed(just replace pads/rotor 2 months ago) Found excessive brake dust on driver side, rotor has a yellow reflection tint on it. Suspected the caliper not releasing fully and now pad deposits on rotor. That's easy to...

I got 6 x IK20TT spark plugs from RA, came in two 4 pack boxes (with one missing 2 inner boxes). I believe the specs says they are pre gapped to 1mm or 0.04inch. With a coin gap gauge, only 1 is reaching 0.04, they are in the range 0.036 x2 0.037 x1 0.038 x2 0.039 x1 The 1MZFE engine specifies...

Developed a squeak while depressing on the clutch pedal. Never tried applying lubrication before so I wanted some pointers. I am hoping to not need to disassemble anything. I believe I can get access from under the car. 1. Where the slave cylinder pushes the fork, can I push the slave cylinder...

I am trying to decide between e-coating like centric premium/wagner vs Raybestos element3(FZN/RPT) rotors. We use a lot of spray liquid de-icer here and the previous centric premium is rusted even onto the brake pad scrape area. Anyone use Raybestos element3 rotors for more than 2 winters in...

Decided to replace the parking brake shoes as full maintenance on the rear brake system along with new pads and rotors. One corner had basically no friction material on the top portion of the brake shoe, I thought maybe it was just lubrication issue or my dad forgot to release the parking brake...

Old RX300 recently hearing more exhaust noise from the rear. Found out today that it's broken at the inlet, not sure if it's something my father back into that caused it. I want to keep the OEM muffler as there is nothing wrong with it, previously already welded aftermarket resonator on at a...

Time to do another valve adjustment(every 160k) and spark plug change on K20 with 320k+ km. PP 0W20(winter), 5W30(summer) and sometimes a mix of the two(left over oil from unused jugs) + Fram Ultra(every other oil change) MM usually indicates 10% oil life left around 10-12k km of driving...

2010 Forester I don't drive it all that much unless I have to do maintenance on it. The other day, I was doing a complete lock on the steering wheel to make a turn and the steering wheel felt like it went into this notch. Normal car if I hit the steering bump stop and then let go while...

2001 RX300 with 280k km. 1MZ-FE engine. Drained and filled steering reservoir with Mobil 1 ATF. Drained and filled ATF every 20-30km interval Transfer case + rear diff changed Redline 75W90 at 210k km. Sometimes when starting the car after sitting for a long while, there is this almost...

Bought 6 plugs for a Lexus V6. PITA to finally take out the rear 3 plugs. Now I want to install new Denso plugs, which came in a 4pack and 2 individual packs. All gapped around the same and iridium tips look same colour and laser welds on all 6. The only thing I noticed is the DENSO word is...

Helping out my father who has a Hyster electric pallet jack, I think it's w60z model. He wanted me to help with adding distilled water to the 4 batteries, which are 6v GC2 model typically used in golf carts as far as my research goes. After swinging the first battery on its own arm mechanism...

The manual calls for Denso Iridium Long Life plugs to be changed at 160k km. Cars at 320k so second swap and I noticed Denso has new TT plugs with smaller 0.4mm center electrode as opposed to 0.7mm in long life. Previously 0.4mm center electrode is for the "performance" plugs and generally...

Driver side window is struggling to go up the first 20% of the way. Cleaned the window channel and want to apply a good silicone lubricant. Saw that 3M has 2 types, the wet one probably has more silicone solids? 08877(wet) and 08897(dry)...

Got a Lexus RX300 One tire in the rear that is wearing on the outer shoulder and car is used to carry some heavy load for work. After putting it on the alignment machine, it was not a toe issue, but a positive camber. Factory preference is -0.6, it's at 0.2 right now. So about 0.8 positive...

Today's pretty cold here around -15C+ with snowstorm and on top of that windchill. I was on the highway trying to beat the after work traffic and tried to get ahead of a snowplow like all the other cars. Dropped into 4th and accelerated while trying to avoid all the rock salt spray. At this...

"The Blizzak WS-tires' Multicell tread compound comprises the top 55 percent of the tires' tread depth with a standard winter tread compound comprising the remaining 45 percent. When Blizzaks are approximately 50 percent worn, their "snow platform" tread depth indicators "connect" selected...

I just bought some 2 year old tires with 9/32nds for a bargain and that comes at a consequence that the steel rims aren't looking good aesthetically. Since they will be going through winter + salt anyways, I want to get some advice on some quick and easy method to get them back into relatively...

98 civic with 150k km on it. There is a leak due to rust coming from the stamped seams of the fuel tank. Replacing tank may result in gas lines also being damaged in the process. Mechanic mentioned that to me. He also said I can try tackling it via sealing that part with standard JB weld...