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We have been experiencing the roller coaster temperatures of spring, but we have had very little snow this winter, so our roads have had almost no salt. Since it had been a long time since any salt was applied and since the temperature hit 70 on Sunday, like some other people itching for car season ...

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Yesterday, I put handles on the cabinets in the garage. When we moved in, some of these cheap old kitchen cabinets were mounted on the walls of the garage and some were mounted in the basement. I decided to move them all to the garage. I rolled gray paint on the ...

The Jaguar is no longer my highest mileage car. The VW surpassed it today.

Were you paid to do this ad for Swisstrax?


Yeah, they should pay me, but I was just documenting the reasons I bought into this significantly different and expensive flooring paradigm. As MostMint requested, I will be updating the good and bad. It will be interesting to see what I think in a ...

I probably should have started a thread for my garage(s) when I bought the place. Our work and storage locations are almost as important as our cars. My main garage is a really nice size, 24X24. This provides plenty of room in front, behind, alongside, and between two cars to do just about any type ...

The Honda had its first service yesterday with 8792 on the odometer. The first oil change and tire rotation was free. They talked me into doing the first differential fluid change which was $180. While the Passport's AWD system is perhaps the best available from any brand for offroad use, it comes ...

It was over 60 degrees today and sunny, so I decided to cruise my favorite high-speed one-hour loop on Christmas Eve. That took the car over the 49,000 mile mark. The car has no immediate problems, so I haven't worked on it in any meaningful way since fixing that squeaky brake pad. I thought I had ...

Yowza, that's an analog beast. There's no way I would ever turn traction/stability control off in a car like that, but I am not even sure yours has such features. Congrats on fulfilling a dream.

48,172 miles
35.2 mpg average

Today I put the snow tires back on. I wasn't in a hurry this year as it hadn't snowed until last week. That did have me working with cold tools, but at least the garage warmed up quickly with the heater on. All four snow tires were still holding air. With each wheel ...

The cricket has been squashed. It was a squeaky brake pad.

I kept contemplating how to pinpoint the precise source of the sound. Last night, I even experimented with driving at a walking pace in the longest local parking lot, trying to imagine my instructions to my wife on how to drive slowly ...

Random questions on the brake noise:

Since the brake noise is when moving slowly, will it do it at walking speed? Just wondering if hearing it from the outside might help you isolate where its coming from.

Is it any different when you turn?

Are you certain this is not a wheel bearing issue ...

Today was the first time I did any work on the car in over two months. The car has been driven regularly and mostly is running great. The squeaky brake problem still hasn’t gone away. With music in the car now, the squeak is almost not an issue, but I don’t always want loud music in the car, and it ...

Awesome!

If I understand the data correctly, it looks like he qualified 5th for the final 32 bracket race. I can't find the results of the bracket race yet. It looks like he had a good week with reasonably consistent numbers.

I bought a cheap accessory for the Jaguar, a Bluetooth cassette tape adapter that allows me to play music from my phone through the car stereo. It works surprisingly well. I wouldn’t describe the sound quality as great, but I don’t think the phone delivers great sound quality to my other cars ...