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I'm going to be in the market for some metric combination wrenches very shortly. I've been looking at a few different sets and I'm pretty much settled for why could be considered 'mid tier' I suppose. I've looked at Wright, Armstrong, SK, and Williams; they're all almost identical in price at...

I normally don't touch AC systems, but long story short, shop wanted $1000 to replace compressor and condenser when the only part that had failed was the compressor clutch. I replaced it myself and it's working great. My wife's cousin was over today as I was working on my wife's car and said her...

Not sure if this should be here or in the off topic section. My wife and I are moving from Oregon to California in a couple weeks, I'm not going to be taking my ranger with me as it doesn't have air conditioning and the city we are moving to gets quite hot. We'd prefer to buy a vehicle in Oregon...

It's about time for a good spring cleaning. I'm going to do a good thorough wash, including the undercarriage; shampoo the interior; and degrease the engine bay.. Not that it's too bad in the first place. The cavalier is no spring chicken but it's in really good shape for it's age, no scratches...

I was doing a pick up in the 9,000 pound van I drive for work in downtown Portland, I had a nice string of green lights ahead and was cruising along at the posted speed limit of 30mph. Some guy on foot decided he was far too important to wait for the light to change so he could cross and decided...

Long story short, the company I work for took over a smaller one and some of the employees from the previous owners remained at the site. There was some hostility and tension from one of them particularly, her immaturity resulted in her termination. Fast forward a couple weeks and one of my...

A coworker of mine got an outrageous quote for a brake job on her Focus and asked if I could do it for her. I've done brake jobs on coworkers cars in the past and told them to pay me what they thought was fair, it's usually been between $80 and $100 for all 4 wheels and around $50 for the front...

I put on some moog strut assemblies on the front of the cavalier a couple weeks ago. It feels a lot better to drive but about a week after installation and alignment, the mount on the passenger side has started sounding like it's bad. Honestly it sounds like a creaky barn door when I turn at low...

I take care of a fellow in a wheelchair for a living. Today I brought my tools to work to fix some things around his house. While I was at it, he asked for me to tighten up his brakes for him. While I was working on that, he asked if I could help him make his wheelchair faster for the special...

I just got some Moog strut assemblies today to go on the Cavalier as the old ones are pretty much toast. I'm taking the old ones off as an assembly, meaning the coil spring will still be under tension. How should I dispose of the old ones? I'm a little apprehensive to just stick them in the...

Anyone else in the pnw loving this 'winter'? We haven't really had one to speak of. A few weeks of rain around October November and December but that was it. It's a balmy 72 degrees and winter still has 2 weeks left!

A little old lady driving a Honda odyssey with a body kit, smoked lights, and black rims.... still a grocery getter kid hauler at the end of the day. All it was missing was a huge wing on the back and some ricer stickers.

I made another post last night about possibly trading my Cavalier for something a little less.... bland I gave it a good thorough clean and polish today and it really isn't a bad car, plus it's mechanically a known quantity. My primary gripes are how noisy the cabin can be on the freeway, part...

I've been contemplating ditching my cavalier because it's boring and I miss having a truck. It's in great shape overall and I've found a number of craigslist folks wanting to trade compact pickups for small cars. My cavalier inspection was pretty minimal since it was dark out, I needed a car...

Not sure how common this is everywhere but I'd imagine since I've only ever seen it at Kroger stores it's not completely foreign to many of you. I lived in Utah for a short while and the Kroger owned chain branded as Smith's had a number of gas stations near their stores where you could use...

I'm about to do a simple drain and fill on the Cavalier's transmission. It's been a bit whiny when starting cold so I figured replacing the fluid and filter would be a good place to start. I've already got a couple gallons of Maxlife and I've been looking at filters. O'reilly has Wix filters for...

I got a cheapie I ordered off of Amazon the other day. Hooked it up to the Mazda in my Sig and it worked ok for a brief drive, enough to diagnose a lazy o2 sensor. Then on a second drive all the vehicle gauges went to zero and the warning lights came on. Pulled it out and restarted the car and...

My girlfriend has started having me do her oil changes for her after she realized it is in fact cheaper than quicky lube places. I went to take the filter off and it was an exercise in futility to try and do it by hand, I've never had a problem getting them off by hand before then. I swear the...

Here's a couple pictures I took today while doing some service on the Cavalier. Drain & fill with Maxlife full synth, added an oversized wix filter so I could feel a little better about putting 5 qts in instead of the spec'd 4.5. Of course replaced the valve cover gasket(it was a little leaky)...

I was a little skeptical about it at first but it appeared to be of good quality, I wanted to give it a shot a while back and couldn't find it anywhere! Did valvoline discontinue it?