The Spirit has gone to heaven! Finally! Some of you may recall the old Dodge Spirit that we’ve had kicking around in our driveway for a couple months now. It had become the new home and walnut storage for the damn squirrel this fall. The reason we had kept it for so long was that the [...]
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Brake Pad and Rotor Replacement 101
This weekend I attended Jeff’s brake pad and rotor replacement 101 course in his driveway. The donor car was my 2004 Sunfire (since it needed new brake pads and rotors according to my mechanic) and the attendance was rather pathetic – Jeff was there and so was I. Yeah, so Jeff offered to help me do a [...]
Infant Car Seat in the Pontiac Vibe
This weekend I finally go around to installing our infant car seat in the Pontiac Vibe. We have an infant carrier that locks into a base that gets secured to the car. The infant carrier locks in so that the baby is rear facing. The Pontiac Vibe has the nifty LATCH/UAS hooks to make it [...]
Pontiac Vibe real world gas mileage
Another update on our 2006 Pontiac Vibe real world gas mileage. We’re now over 24000km (damn, 24000km/8months = 3000km/month or 36000km/year and that’s pretty much just the Boss driving it back and forth to work.) and the gas mileage is getting better. Of course, it’s near the end of the summer now and the car [...]
Ronald McHummer parody website
I was reading AutoblogGreen this morning like I tend to do and I came across this article on the Ronald McHummer parody website, Ronald McHummer. I have to admit, it is sort of funny and their sign-o-matic is a neat little idea that works rather well. So why am I even bothering with a post [...]
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