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Probably the Hyundai and Equus
Chrysler is
Caddys are decent but again it’s a luxury so comes with luxury maintenance, you’d have to take it the stealership
If I Google my car's tank capacity it says 20 gallons yet 7.5 fills it up from half and 12.5 fills it up from a quarter tank. Why is this?
Is there anything that can improve my gas mileage in the slightest because I commute to work and use a quarter tank a day.
Is there anything that can improve my gas mileage in the slightest because I commute to work and use a quarter tank a day.
Are you using Top Tier gas like Shell,Exxon/Mobil,BP, Chevron, etc. ?Those brands use more additives in their gasoline as opposed to grocery store gas or some off name garbage. Gas is not the same, i notice my MPG and power goes down when I don’t use shell or BP
Secondly, is your car over 4 years old or over 60k Miles? If so I’d probably do a tuneup, replace the spark plugs fuel filter air filter wires PCV valve and clean your Idle air control valve real good. If your tires are worn get some new ones.
Last, ease up on the accelerator, I burn through gas when I’m on some lead foot shyt
earlier this year i had a problem where my car was telling me low oil, i thought the sensor was fukked because that shyt only came up when i drove fast and then slow. like if i took streets shyt is cool but if i drove freeway and got off shyt is popping up at every stop. anyway i replaced the sensor and shyt still happened. when i replaced it though there was a bunch of oil so there was a leak, but it looked like that shyt stopped. got an oil change and the shyt went away.
last week though the shyt comes back and it's leaking. i haven't been able to catch it while it's leaking, but i think i found the source.
that hose i think. I'm tired of doing shyt with this car. would that be a cheap fix?
last week though the shyt comes back and it's leaking. i haven't been able to catch it while it's leaking, but i think i found the source.
that hose i think. I'm tired of doing shyt with this car. would that be a cheap fix?
Judging by the pic, Ima guess that’s a power steering line, which very could be the source of the leak(power steering fluid). You might be dealing with another headache brehearlier this year i had a problem where my car was telling me low oil, i thought the sensor was fukked because that shyt only came up when i drove fast and then slow. like if i took streets shyt is cool but if i drove freeway and got off shyt is popping up at every stop. anyway i replaced the sensor and shyt still happened. when i replaced it though there was a bunch of oil so there was a leak, but it looked like that shyt stopped. got an oil change and the shyt went away.
last week though the shyt comes back and it's leaking. i haven't been able to catch it while it's leaking, but i think i found the source.
that hose i think. I'm tired of doing shyt with this car. would that be a cheap fix?
Some Oil leaks are real hard to diagnose, id take it to a shop,just pray it’s not a valve cover leak cuz that could be hundreds of dollars
Do you buy and flip cars? Or nah?
My uncle do,he buy a $1200-1600 car from auctions. Fix only immediate things up and sells them for $1800-2400
He sold a 03’ Accord to some white kid for$2700 a few weeks back,he spent a total of $2100 on it
Ive been turning wrenches for a long time and i have done so much from bodywork,sound,video,engine ,tranny swaps [pause] and rebuilds ,ECU ,Tuning,Hybrid battery rebuilds.Pretty much everything but replacing windshields
Ive been trained both in the old school way using ears ,stethoscopes and a vacuum guage and in the new ways with OBDII scanners ,CAN bus ,Inspection cameras and software
Im now offering TSR the benefit of my experience...so fire away
My car has been sitting in a garage for 2 months not driven. It's a 14. What do i need to do when I start driving it again?
Nothing breh, my current car(a 92’) sat for 4 months while I did the necessary repairs and got plates for it. Soon as I turned the key started right up.
Plus this was in the middle of winter, around this time actually
Just let it run for 10 mins or so and u should be straight
yeah you were right. power steering was empty as shyt. would that cause a "low oil" warning though?
can't catch a break with this fukking car. fukking motor to one of the windows just died and shyt. 
we had a good run.
What car you got breh? Whats the mileage looking like ?yeah you were right. power steering was empty as shyt. would that cause a "low oil" warning though?
Might be time to hang it up
07 h3. like 120,000. shyt really been been falling apart the since that 8th year. had to replace the transmission in both 2015 and 16. copped a new whip a few months ago and I'm tryna make this shyt my secondary car but i can't catch a break with this shyt at all.
Car squeaks driving down the road. Stops when i press the brake. Brake squeaks too.
Could be your front end suspension such as shocks/struts,ball joints, suspension bushings
How many miles and what type of whip? If it’s over 150k might be time to replace some front suspension