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I will try to make this quick (hah!). Last week in March of this year (old, I know; I’ve been avoiding writing this for a long time now) my mom and I took my car in to repair three things: wheel bearing on the front driver side needed fixing (thank you to the body repair [...]

I thought this was a pretty good reason to drive 65 mph instead of 75 or even 70, going from home (L.A.) to school (SLO) and back (about 400 miles roundtrip). “Peak Performance: A U.S. Department of Transportation study averaged the fuel-efficiency curve for eight cars and light trucks.” It’s one thing for my brother [...]

Follow-up on previous post: went to car stereo store, got a Panasonic CQ-C3405U (that’s what the guy said to put in there) and managed to get my CDs back, all for $170 and some change. woot. It took only 45 minutes too. Take that, Carmax service shop! Of course, the cons: no cassette player (used [...]

Almost three years ago I had to replace the CD changer in my car (2001 Dodge Stratus) because it was jammed. I’ve also had to replace the CD player once because it skipped, repeated, and didn’t play certain parts of CDs. (Always songs 2, 3, 4, 5.) Now I’ve got four CDs stuck in the [...]

I’ve been a lazy blogger. Bad me. Umm, lessee… December 27th, Wednesday, took my car in for 30,000 mile maintenance. The service area’s computers were out, and we (Daddy and I) waited an hour then found out the computers were back on but they didn’t tell us. -.- Um, I think Mum C and I [...]