Recent content by ruturaj1989

LOL. I am paranoid as well. Once I replaced all struts on car since it was making noise (after consulting 2-3 mechanics), and during change they found that stabilizer link was the issue.

Do you trust the shop? 2 places told me I needed new brakes. First one in November and the second one in last month and 4,000 miles later. The second one told me I needed them immediately. Both gave me a quote I did not like. Decided to buy parts and do the job myself, found out I did not need...

I live in NY and surprisingly my front ones are in very good condition from outside. I hate I have to change them. Rear ones are completely rusty (probably will replace them too if the bleeding valve is not working). I will get the pads. I went to a local shop once for break inspection, told...

I don't care much about aesthetics. I was just curious if any brand puts some coating to protect from corrosion. I will lubricate all this time. Why change pads?

The sliding pin on my cars driver side front caliper is stuck, Should I get it fixed (with help of someone whom I would have to pay maybe 30-50 bucks) or get new one from either autozone or rockauto From rockout my options are (all rebuilt, costing between 33-46) POWER STOP CARDONE ACDELCO...

Thanks. I am planning to get them done, just to be on safe side from a local mechanic. I think he won't charge much.

I did not do all work myself. I did most at the local repair shop. That's Honda they make awesome engines. The engine on my car was not very advanced at the time it was launched in 2003. My car has a 4G6-MIVEC engine. Previous owner newer bothered to anything besides oil change (I guess that...

My 2009 Mitsubishi Galant has 110,000 miles on it. It sounds little rough but can not hear weird noises that I heard on before valve clearance adjustment videos on youtube. What's the recommended time? When did you do it? Just sharing, I bought car at 86,400 miles and since then changed At...

Thank you for replying. I hate going to dealers, they charge a lot. Last time I went to a local one for timing belt he gave an estimate of $700-1000 for timing belt depending on the quality of parts they use. I decided to go with Goodyear since they were charging $90, my car takes around 8...

What I am planning is go to local lube change shop, check what kind of machine they have. It appears that some machines like below let's car spit out the fluid. If they have one like this I am going to do it. Also, did you have a chance to look at the attached manual? https://youtu.be/nQ3m16LS1VI

The car's manual doesn't have anything related to dropping pan. Please have a look (If you want to have look I can give you link to all pages). http://imgur.com/a/acnz8 Also by looking at images, it appears that my car (4-A/T) does not have a pan?

My car's manual has some wrong info in it.

The thing is, my car's service manual says to use a machine or few instructions where it runs engine and throws out the old fluid then they drain from drain plug put new fuel again run engine throw out old fluid then refill. I am going to Goodyear and Valvoline tomorrow, will ask them how their...

I meant flush by machine, where the connect machine to hose to transmission. LOL, that's sad though.

The fluid did not smell burned, it was light brown color. I read service manual (not the user manual) for my car, the filter is not intended to be swapped for service. I am planning to do the flush at a store where they use a machine and they are planning to use Valvoline maxlife ATF (which is...