Thread: What did you do to your car today? Vol 2.0

Yeah, and they are soldered in place.

I swapped out that bulb in my 2000 GTP. The bulb comes out with the tiny housing unit that keeps it in place. No soldering involved, it was pretty easy. There is a spot to place a flat-head screwdriver and turn. Needle nose pliers help as well. I got the bulb from this place in the link below, $20.

http://www.corvetteradios.com/corvetteradios_013.htm

I dropped it off at the collison repair shop, I'll have it back next week with a new bumper. Then it'll sit for 2 months. Lol

Raised the idle rpm in Park/Neutral so it warms up faster using my remote start. It already only gets 9-10mpg so it really doesn't matter lol.

I'm tired of seeing Facebook posts of tree huggers saying don't warm your car up in the morning, it's bad for it because the fuel washes the oil off the cylinders. Really?
Like I want to drive a car with an icy/foggy windshield, as well as being cold and uncomfortable while trying to concentrate on where all these ice patches are.
Besides, getting into the throttle when cold dumps even more fuel. That will wash off all the oil right?..

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where id never just fire it up and drive, not summer or winter, always let it idle a minute or two, but back to the warming up the car.

back in the day we had a carb and a choke, car would not run till warmed up some. today we have fuel injection, the engine will run and drive. may as well save the gas and just drive it cold. heat comes up rather fast, like i feel warm air after 3 -4 minutes. if you want heat and frost free glass, you only wasting the gas you paid for, its your right, no harm will come from it. like washing the cylinders down, thats so dumb lol

so pretty much do what ever you feel like doing ....

With regular gas in the 02, I give no cares about costs. I want to be comfortable lol.
Premium in the 06 is a bit more costly but screw it. I don't need all the options it has either, what's one more luxury with remote start. It does take about 4 minutes for me to feel any heat, but with a 17 minute ride to work that's a lot.
Better than standing in the below 0 wind chill scraping a thin layer of ice off the windshield.

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my ride to work was less then 5 miles, id have heat 1/2 way there lol then i got to fire up a ice cold truck.....

Ha, thermostat probably doesn't even think about opening lol. I used to do that in the short time I was in college and had no job, 5 mins there and 5 back. All that short tripping caused a ton of moisture in the engine

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If I truely just jumped in my truck waited 1 min and then drove to work, my coolant temp would never reach over 140-150º. It's another reason I let it warm up, one so I can see what the **** I'm doing and the other so it can actually hit operating temp atleast for a tiny bit.

I remember back when I had my grand prix, I'd leave work when it was at or below zero and reach home with a coolant temp of 120-130. These damn cars are so cold blooded sometimes.

Yeah when it's cold and you have the heat on full blast, it does take a while. My friend's focus st literally doesn't warm up in that scenario. I'm serious, it won't go past the second line on the gauge unless you turn the heat off. We let it run in the quarter car wash, it ran a half hour and still was at the second line. I turned the heat off just to see, a minute later it starts going up lol.

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Yesterday I hit 194k miles. Today I am pretty sure I lost the forward band.

Originally Posted by stealthee

Yesterday I hit 194k miles. Today I am pretty sure I lost the forward band.

i feel your pain.

Yeah, nothing went right at all today.

I had two grinder pumps that just needed the leads to be hooked up, filled with transformer oil, tested and painted. Everything else was assembled. Project should have taken 2-3 hours tops. One thing going wrong after the other made it take all day, and one of those pumps had to be disassembled to fix a previously undiscovered bent shaft.

Then the car does its crap. Then I get home and I hear a humming noise. I thought, hmm that sounds like the sump pump. I go down to the basement and the bucket (hole in the ground) is full, but the pump isn't pumping it out. I grabbed the pipe coming out of the pump and I jarred it lose and water shot straight up in the air. Unplugged the pump and went out to the outlet to see it plugged full of ice.

And oh yeah, after that I found that the cold water line to my washer froze too.

yup. bad day all around.

I watched/helped my wife change the oil in her 200C... I have a love/hate relationship with that damn car.

The entire underside of the car is "covered" with plastic shielding, except for directly under the engine/trans, which has a fabric covered aluminum/composite cover, with a little trap door for the oil drain plug. I learned today that her trans doesn't have a pan on the bottom, just a drain plug on the bottom of the housing... and no transmission heater. More for me to do, I guess...

But she pretty much did all of it, she only needed my help to loosen the drain plug and oil filter cap. Small oversight on my part, her car takes 5 1/2 quarts instead of the 5 I originally thought, but it's above the minimum line. I'll put that last 1/2 quart in later today. She's getting better at doing maintenance on her own, and it looks like she'll be able to help me with the GP and all of the love it needs, once I get around to actually doing something to it. lol

Again, it got Royal Purple full synthetic, just because the 5 qt jug was on sale (50% off) and she likes the color purple.