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  1. unbeliever

    What is a reliable newer car with decent MPG?

    Recently was thinking similarly, and ended up with a Scion tC. I'm a long-time Toyota guy, but I'm not impressed with the tc. The manual transmission is very clunky, for one thing. The whole car rattles and bangs and clunks. I'm not a fashion princess... but... seriously? I like Mazdas of...
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    Seeing dead stock high mileage cars...

    Oh yeah. Those are the ones I am willing to pay more for on ebay. At the moment I have "too many" (aka 6) vehicles. One I have seriously chopped up (to be a rock crawler). And yet even I step back with the perspective of time and reconsider what I did. Leave it stock. If you modify it, modify...
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    Anybody else prefer professional tools for DIY ?

    Know what you are buying. There's "cheap" price, and there's "cheap" quality. It's important to notice that they're not the same. That's where we get screwed, and that's where they make their bucks. Once upon a time, I bought a small Craftman drill press at Sears, on a huge sale, for $99. I...
  4. unbeliever

    First time with leather seats, school me

    As others have said, before you do anything else, ensure it is clean. Wash it gently (plain water, water + gentle soap, Murphy's oil soap, etc). Once the leather is clean and soft, Lexol is good to maintain it. But if you want to bring some leather back from the brink, Leather Honey borders on...
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