I put the grill block on the Corolla.
Nice. Old Pilsner box?
Corrugated plastic sign material and pipe insulation.
Is that even necessary though? On old cars (except for Chevy's) - sure, but something like the 'rolla? My Sonic takes a while to get warm but when it is I've never needed more heat than it gives even at -30 or colder.
Replaced the rear rotors, pads, and one caliper on the Tundra today. The drivers side rear locked up on me a couple years back. It’s been fine ever since but I had one sitting in the garage that I had ordered a while back so I swapped it. It was a 
getting the old pads out of that one caliper so I thought it would be harder getting them back in without a bunch of cleaning. Took about 4 hours start to finish.
It takes balls of ice to do it in the middle of winter, even inside a garage 
Good job!
Yep, I was thinking the same when I saw the barely melted snow/ice on the ground...Winter car repairs can be absolutely brutal. Escalade needs rear pads/rotors as they're down to maybe 3mm or so, but I am gunna wait till spring comes around....
I installed a 30amp 220V outlet in the garage so I could plug in one of those cheap portable space heaters. My garage typically stays 20 degrees warmer than the outside temp. Only really goes below freezing in Jan/Feb. With the recent arctic air it has been -7 to -8 in the garage (-25 to -30 outside). Running the heater for 2 hours gets the temp to about 15C which is perfect for working on things. Highly recommended for not much money.. a 4500W unit is using 4.5 KW at a full dressed cost of what? $.15/hour? Done. So in real cold snaps it costs.
$3.60/day for me to work in my t shirt while it is -30 on the other side of the garage door.. Kinda nice getting into a room temp car if I have to run an errand or two.
I'm averaging about $0.20/kWhr on my bill, 4.5x0.2=0.9, so $0.90 an hour or so.
That's not cheap. That's like $650/mo to heat the garage. Which makes sense, those things from what I've heard cost a shitton to keep a garage warm. Pretty sure our rate's only 8.5/kwh (I should check again - might've gone up) - and I won't ever use the 220 plug I put in my garage for that very purpose (found out after what they cost to use - fack that!). Much better off if I ran a gas line and a gas furnace. And never opened the doors to park inside.
What I really need is a bathroom fan to pull out the humidity. I've got so much frost build-up around the garage doors and walk-in (and the screws in the OSB - apparently my Tyvek job wasn't 100% - and I'm also not about to rip all the siding off to re-do it - after 14 yrs like this now
), I'm surprised my door knob hasn't frozen solid yet like it always does. I've got one of them portable diesel/kerosene heaters if I want to do anything in there. Melt your pants if you stand too close.
