Thread: What did you do to your Car today?

Got another motor Top Swapped it. Put my car back together

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Thought I'd purchased a ZZP GXP downpipe. They declined me for using a different billing addy. The payment is already pending on my Credit account. Spending the morning emailing zzp...

Originally Posted by SDGTP99

Thought I'd purchased a ZZP GXP downpipe. They declined me for using a different billing addy. The payment is already pending on my Credit account. Spending the morning emailing zzp...

Go check the Black Friday rules..I thought you could do that, it'd just take longer for shipping..

I found a new one of these black trim pieces.



I stapled the rear one back on.

Originally Posted by The Guz

I took this a couple months ago when I drove it for a few days.

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Wow nice work. That red paint looks like new.

Washed it.

The Prius is faced with the incredible shrinking gas tank problem. From the gas light to the first click nets me only 6.5 gallons. Fighting with it, I can get to 7 gallons. That's enough gas for all week, but still, that's irritating. One of these days I'll rip out the rubber bladder and install a proper gas tank.

Got some new tires from discount tire. Michelin Defenders.




They cost $124 each. I got a $50 discount for purchasing 4 tires(Black Friday sale), $24.80 discount for having AAA, and I'm doing a mail-in rebate for michelin to get $70 off for buying 4 michelin tires. That's a total of $144.80 saved. Not bad at all, but you have to ask for the first 2 discounts mentioned or you don't get them. That's how discount tire operates.

Also I better not get a rim leak after, I watched them swap tires (they're not careful btw, I've changed many tires before) and I personally cleaned my front two rims that leaked and the corrosion was pretty bad. The rears started leaking later for the same reason, and they claim the rims were already very clean, thats why they didn't clean them. I bet they were just as bad as the fronts, they've been on the car just as long without being touched.

Thats a good deal on those tires. I have a slow rim leak that I should have taken care of.

My passenger door didn't unlock. I could hear it trying to but it actually wouldn't. So, I took off the door panel, and replaced the linkage with one I picked up from the junkyard, and it works now. I lubed it up too and it works a whole lot better now.

This part is hard to replace.

Yeah not a bad deal at all. They're good tires too. My rim leak was just from corrosion on the surface where the bead seals on. I use steel wool on the front two and it fixed the leak. I swear the back two have to be just as bad, I can almost guarantee I'm going to get a rim leak, discount tire is famous for letting rims leave corroded and leaking.

My locks get hard to move manually in the winter, when I lubed my window track on the door I replaced, I oiled the lock arm too and it moves a lot better.

Who does manufacture the carbon fiber hoods for the GP's? I know the fiberglass hoods are mostly American Sports Car Designs. Any ideas??

Finally got around to changing the oil

Figured out why my left headlight was bouncinh the projector wasnt tight enough. So i tightened it and now the beam is slanted and the shroud came off the projector

Went n bought these from home depot for 100 bucks since I dont have any drills!
10.7-12v max..impact driver and drill kit, cant complain for the price. They have an 18v kit for 200 bucks in every brand too, but dont need that much out of em.

Get them on sale for Black Friday?

Just a sale thats limited supply (but they had a nice pile of them) haha.
11/28-12-02 or 12/04 I forget..just go on theyre website or check em out in store..seem decent

Originally Posted by GrandPrix06GT

Went n bought these from home depot for 100 bucks since I dont have any drills!
10.7-12v max..impact driver and drill kit, cant complain for the price. They have an 18v kit for 200 bucks in every brand too, but dont need that much out of em.

I have a craftsman 19.2 volt tools and their quite a bit more powerful than the 12v sets.

Originally Posted by DirtDog

I have a craftsman 19.2 volt tools and their quite a bit more powerful than the 12v sets.

Yeah, we use the 18v set at work n they're really nice, but for $100 more I didn't wanna spend that. I don't think I'll be using them too much so well see how they hold up