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I'm currently driving a 2008 Cobalt with 228,760 miles. Acquired at 207K. I've done three oil changes myself on it, 7K each, at or around 33% on the oil life monitor. Previous owner claimed he was an ASE certified mechanic. Did all his own work, he said. Ball joints and control arms, brakes...

I've been using the same jump pack for five years. It is a Frankenstein creation with an ES2500 case, ES5000 replacement batteries, 0 gauge cables (but they're only about two feet long), and I think there is about a pound of electrical tape on the handle since the ears broke off a LONG time ago...

I'll give two examples of vehicles that don't make any sense to buy but served my family well. 2008 I bought a 2000 Dodge Durango 2WD with 172K miles and a blown 318 motor for $1700 from a seller in Oklahoma on eBay. Had a 120K mile used engine installed for about $900. Drove the truck four...

I just found out the OEM 28 and 16 inch wipers on my Corolla are simply Trico hybrids. I've been spending $23 a pair to replace the inserts so I could keep the same stock appearing aero style, when I could've been purchasing whole blades for about 2/3 of that online. This is great news because...

Last time I took a car I didn't trust on an 800 mile round trip it was when I was 18 back in Wyoming in 1996. I had bought a rusty and worn 1980 Caprice sedan with an air pump choked 267 small block for $300 from the local Ford dealer. But I had to get somewhere and it would've been a $180 bus...

Originally Posted by Skippy722 I get motion sick if I'm not driving and do literally anything except look forward. This is my problem. It's worse if I try to look at something on my phone while in the front passenger seat. My wife gets annoyed when I ask one of the kids to sit up front and I...

Thank you to all for your contributions to this thread. After running a 1992 7.3 IDI truck with a 5-speed, 1994 5-speed and 1999 6-speed Powerstrokes, 1997 and 2002 DT466/Allison IH trucks, and finally a 2006 IH with the DT466/Allison that bankrupted the company, I'm about ready to start over...

I believe 2004-2005 were the only years for these. I have yet to see a 5-speed one anywhere for sale but they are rumored to exist...

Valet attendants can't drive standards, either. Except me. I seem to be the go-to guy for the Infiniti coupes, the Jeep Wranglers, Mustangs, Camaros, and Focus ST's. I hate sports cars actually, but when I see one of the other village idiots stalling a car repeatedly with the customer turning to...

We have the half ton, 5.3 liter, four years older model of that. Still has the tow package, but 3.73 gears and 265/75R16 tires. Can't complain at 240,000 miles. It's seen one transmission, one fuel pump, and the next major repair will be front hub assemblies and pads/rotors. I hit the mother of...

I have three and seven year old Acer laptops. Each is fine driving a 1920x1080 display. My newer laptop is 1600x900 and one of the screen options for other models using the same case is 1920x1080. If my screen ever cracks I can simply remove it, plug in the 1920x1080, and it'll work as if it...

This is the modern equivalent of my laptop: http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-VN7-791G-76Z8-17-3-Inch-Gaming/dp/B00WJSQREY/ref=sr_1_1? It has a 17 inch screen, quad core Intel Core i7 processor, plenty of RAM, a huge slow hard drive, good discrete graphics, and a DVD burner. The only...

I had a recent need for a rental car. Merchandising project required me to visit 100 stores in a four state area, 3/4 of these stores were 90 to 150 miles away. I routed them for the shortest possible mileage and determined I didn't want to put 1900 miles on my Suburban. Renting a Corolla from...

My wife doesn't like non-American cars. Sometimes she comes and valets cars with me when it gets busy. She comments on the different cars she parks and retrieves and it helps me help her when she is thinking about cars to be able to remind her what she did and didn't like. She LOVES the Toyota...

My comparison is against a $3100 2000 Chevy Suburban averaging 14mpg we've had for about three years. We've put about 20,000 miles a year on it. I'm now working two jobs and driving a LOT more, probably looking at 30K per year. So yes, if I pick out a $3000 car (thinking 05-07, Cobalt, Focus...

Originally Posted By: A_Harman Get a diesel. I had a TBI 454 in a 3/4-ton '88 Suburban with 4.10 gears. It got 10 mpg in regular usage and 8 mpg while towing 5000 pounds. If you're going to average 7000 miles a month and if you get 8 mpg (which is optimistic, considering that truck is heavier...

I'd love to see BITOG's opinion on oils to use in a particular application. I haven't bought a truck yet but I'm pretty set on what I want. It'll be an 80s C30 rollback with a TBI 454 and a 4-speed manual, and then it'll get swapped out for an NV4500 5-speed manual. Gears I'll be shooting for...

Keep it simple, only buy/sell cars that are too old to need smogged. Poor you in California... Laws are different in different states so make sure you find your loopholes before the state ties one around your financial neck. For example in Texas, you can only sell four vehicles per year before...

GM Top End Cleaner Mopar Combustion Chamber Cleaner Mazda Zoom Zoom Cleaner What other makes have a specific cleaner for this? Is there a Ford equivalent? The GM one I have heard plenty of good things about on GM-centered forums and it's almost always recommended over Seafoam. I plan to use it...

I agree with Hyundai quality being subpar until about 1999 or so. Just looking at cars for sale on Craigslist, you can tell the difference between 90s and 00s models of each. You see HUNDREDS of those 92-96 Camrys and 94-97 Accords. You see ONE 93-98 Sonata. You see hundreds of 97-01 and 02-06...