Topic: What did you do to your car today?

[Davep]

Took it to the dealer for summer tire swap plus front and rear brake service. They found the RF caliper was binding and the outside pad was minimal plus scored rotor, so I opted for a replacement caliper and new coated rotors and pads in the front, with clean and lube in the rear. Plus they replaced the engine air and cabin filters. $1150 all in. Yes, years ago I would have done all that myself, by my days of crawling around the garage floor doing that kind of work, are long gone. 

Wonder how much they caliper was?

The caliper (reman) was $132.66. Labour was $191.94. Shop charge was $19.19. There is a $60 core charge that cancelled out by returning my old one.

[Solstice2006]

Took it to the dealer for summer tire swap plus front and rear brake service. They found the RF caliper was binding and the outside pad was minimal plus scored rotor, so I opted for a replacement caliper and new coated rotors and pads in the front, with clean and lube in the rear. Plus they replaced the engine air and cabin filters. $1150 all in. Yes, years ago I would have done all that myself, by my days of crawling around the garage floor doing that kind of work, are long gone. 

Wonder how much they caliper was?

The caliper (reman) was $132.66. Labour was $191.94. Shop charge was $19.19. There is a $60 core charge that cancelled out by returning my old one.

Pretty decent.  The caliper on my Entourage was like $300 and change.  Needed it asap, and there was no remanufactured ones available. 

[Davep]

Took it to the dealer for summer tire swap plus front and rear brake service. They found the RF caliper was binding and the outside pad was minimal plus scored rotor, so I opted for a replacement caliper and new coated rotors and pads in the front, with clean and lube in the rear. Plus they replaced the engine air and cabin filters. $1150 all in. Yes, years ago I would have done all that myself, by my days of crawling around the garage floor doing that kind of work, are long gone. 

Wonder how much they caliper was?

The caliper (reman) was $132.66. Labour was $191.94. Shop charge was $19.19. There is a $60 core charge that cancelled out by returning my old one.

Pretty decent.  The caliper on my Entourage was like $300 and change.  Needed it asap, and there was no remanufactured ones available.

Yes, RF has half the life of LF simply because of the all the roadside curb salt/crud/crap driving in the GTA. I noticed increased dust on the RF rim last summer, so this replacement is not a surprise. That said, I wonder how thorough of a clean and lube the dealer performed last spring?

[revalations]

Weekend job....polish the huge old wagon! Turned out pretty good, haven't done the roof yet lol.

[ArticSteve]

Took it to the dealer for summer tire swap plus front and rear brake service.

Year, mileage and model .... please Dave.  I can't see that info listed but it could be me. 

[Davep]

Took it to the dealer for summer tire swap plus front and rear brake service.

Year, mileage and model .... please Dave.  I can't see that info listed but it could be me. 

2014 Cruze, 50,000 km, manual trans, RS package.

[ChaosphereIX]

put the summer tires and 18s on the Mini, and replaced both front hubs

no more roaring, and damn does she look pretty. Also, the General RS feel great. Fantastic initial impression.

[Arthur Dent]

Weekend job....polish the huge old wagon! Turned out pretty good, haven't done the roof yet lol.

Looks great. Sharp looking beast.

[Scaerio]

I love that Suburban!

[Bubba]

I love that Suburban!

Likewise.

[johngenx]

The Corolla gave my wife some trouble on her trip to Vernon over spring break.  On cold starts, it would crank for 30 seconds before starting.  Crap.

She got home fine as the car ran great and hot starts were fine.  Fuel economy was normal.  Just cold starts.  FML.

So I tossed some new plugs in.  Nope.

Read about this possibly being a head gasket failure between cylinders 2 and 3 in some rare cases.  So I pulled the plugs and did a compression check.  170psi all four dead on.  Nope.

Then I read about a TSB describing an ECU flash to deal with this.  Called the dealer, took it in this morning.  Did the trick!

The BUMMER?  $170 "diagnostic" fee plus $150 to flash the ECU.  Freakin' robbery.  But, no one else can do it.

[rrocket]

^^Stealership strikes again!

Although I don't understand what changes in the ECU for it to suddenly stop working at thousands and thousands of KMs...

[tortoise]

Yeah. Why the sudden need for a flash. It's not like it was all of a sudden cold out.

$320 to go "beep-boop".  Absurd.

[Solstice2006]

The Corolla gave my wife some trouble on her trip to Vernon over spring break.  On cold starts, it would crank for 30 seconds before starting.  Crap.

She got home fine as the car ran great and hot starts were fine.  Fuel economy was normal.  Just cold starts.  FML.

So I tossed some new plugs in.  Nope.

Read about this possibly being a head gasket failure between cylinders 2 and 3 in some rare cases.  So I pulled the plugs and did a compression check.  170psi all four dead on.  Nope.

Then I read about a TSB describing an ECU flash to deal with this.  Called the dealer, took it in this morning.  Did the trick!

The BUMMER?  $170 "diagnostic" fee plus $150 to flash the ECU.  Freakin' robbery.  But, no one else can do it.

Any kind of warranty if the issue happens again?

[johngenx]

Seems to be a common issue that as the engine ages the fuel map for cold starts changes just enough that a reflash is required.  Makes sense to me?  NO.  But, it worked.  Like a charm, actually.

[tortoise]

I'm really surprised that wasn't a goodwill fix by Toyota.

[johngenx]

I'm really surprised that wasn't a goodwill fix by Toyota.

I asked, believe me.  There's a TSB on it, but of course, that's not a recall.

[Firm]

Just renewed my Sonoma plate sticker online...went right through, no issues. No E-test necessary. Glad it's done....but the inconsistency across the messages Service Ontario was communicating and what Drive Clean was saying leading up to this April 1st date made the whole thing just a joke.

Truck was in storage and needed an E-Test for it's March renewal, normally I'd just wait till it came out of storage in April and get it tested then. However, Service Ontario said I needed to do it right away since an Etest was mandatory, regardless of when I renew due to my March birthday, and since the facilities wouldn't be testing come April I'd better do it in March....I didn't want to risk a bigger hassle, so I actually took the truck out and down to the closest CT store for an E-test...only to get some error on their machine that prevented them from testing it. So I gave up and left it till now.

Whatever, it's done now, and the stupid Drive Clean program is done too....Thanks Doug!

[ArticSteve]

I'm really surprised that wasn't a goodwill fix by Toyota.

10 year old vehicle

[johngenx]

I'm really surprised that wasn't a goodwill fix by Toyota.

10 year old vehicle

11 years and one month.  I did ask though. as Toyota did pay for a bunch of a repair on the Highlander when it was eight years old.

The Corolla has been so ridiculously reliable I'm no that angry at paying for it, I'm just shocked at the price.