Perks of swapping tires around the same time that temps drop/go up!
What did you do TO your Cruze today?
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Got all the cars ready for...winter...especially with the potentially shitty forecast tomorrow...
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Gave her the much needed tender love and care lol, my ‘18 Colorado work truck has taken all my time (and the 1 year old lol) but got a chance to try the collonite 915, absolutely insane product, would recommend to anyone!
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Ran 4 guage ground to the subwoofer and power up to the dash. Picked up oil n filter. Than hit the speed limiter while out for a drive.
Decided to do a shift knob delete for my 2012 6mt manual
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Find it's much better to hold while making a shift
In the last week I also passed the 300k km mark.
Decided to do a shift knob delete for my 2012 6mt manual
Find it's much better to hold while making a shift
In the last week I also passed the 300k km mark.
Where's the Beef errr pictures??Since the Cruze decided one day into our trip that the right rear brake was metal to metal (and we were up there for 9 nights, in total), I had to tackle those after we got back (it was pretty obnoxious, and you could hear it, even off the brakes, from outside the car - I drove as much as I could without using the brakes), and today was the day.
Right rear brake didn't look that great from the outside:
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Even worse once I got the wheel off:
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Hmm, I wonder which pad is bad? The outboard pad is pretty obviously only the backing plate, but even though the inboard pad still has thickness left, it's oddly colored and I do not think it was really making "solid" contact with the rotor:
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The right rear rotor - outboard was metal to metal, but there's pretty obviously no good contact patch on the inboard side of the rotor either (don't mind the...missing sections...that was from the hammer to remove the rotor off the hub):
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Old versus new (ACDelco GM Original Equipment) rotor:
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Old versus new (also ACDelco GM OE) pads:
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Right rear brake back together:
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Left rear brake didn't look as bad:
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Pads have a good amount of life left, too:
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...except the outer pad and the backing plate immediately came apart:
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Well, what I did today is a bunch of **** I wasn't expecting...
What I was expecting was "take filthy-ass Cruze to car wash and get the mud/salt off it". What happened was that plus "sunroof leaking into the headliner, forcing me to figure out why and fix the issue". Ugh. Better yet: it's 30 out.
So this is what I was dealing with when we got back - salt/snow from Friday morning, and a muddy dirt road leaving on Monday. And a gross car.
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Leaving the car wash, I noticed I was suddenly getting rained on from the headliner, and the area around the roof console was showing that it was wet. Son of a...
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Out with the console to make sure everything wasn't full of water. Thankfully, it wasn't. Slightly wet here and there, but not like I opened a faucet when I removed it.
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The front wind deflector doesn't look great...but I don't think it was our culprit here (though it could have allowed water into the car, even though there's a seal further back):
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Doing a little testing by pouring water into the sunroof ring made it pretty clear what the issue was - the passenger drain tube is clogged (that "puddle" was there just after I got back home, drips from the car wash - most of the water I poured on the passenger side came out the driver side's tube):
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After messing around with some mechanic wire, trying to fish it down the tube to clear it, I settled on my air compressor, with a piece of vaccum line to try and throw the air further down the tube where it wouldn't just cause all the standing water to splatter everywhere (it did, initially, just to make a mess). Eventually it did the trick, though! I did it on the driver side, just for good measure, but I guess I'll be doing this more often now...
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Pouring more water down after confirmed the drain tube now works, so hopefully this won't present itself as an issue again, especially with occasionally blowing air down the tubes to ensure they're clear. But **** was that not what I expected (or wanted) to do today.
What I was expecting was "take filthy-ass Cruze to car wash and get the mud/salt off it". What happened was that plus "sunroof leaking into the headliner, forcing me to figure out why and fix the issue". Ugh. Better yet: it's 30 out.
So this is what I was dealing with when we got back - salt/snow from Friday morning, and a muddy dirt road leaving on Monday. And a gross car.
Leaving the car wash, I noticed I was suddenly getting rained on from the headliner, and the area around the roof console was showing that it was wet. Son of a...
Out with the console to make sure everything wasn't full of water. Thankfully, it wasn't. Slightly wet here and there, but not like I opened a faucet when I removed it.
The front wind deflector doesn't look great...but I don't think it was our culprit here (though it could have allowed water into the car, even though there's a seal further back):
Doing a little testing by pouring water into the sunroof ring made it pretty clear what the issue was - the passenger drain tube is clogged (that "puddle" was there just after I got back home, drips from the car wash - most of the water I poured on the passenger side came out the driver side's tube):
After messing around with some mechanic wire, trying to fish it down the tube to clear it, I settled on my air compressor, with a piece of vaccum line to try and throw the air further down the tube where it wouldn't just cause all the standing water to splatter everywhere (it did, initially, just to make a mess). Eventually it did the trick, though! I did it on the driver side, just for good measure, but I guess I'll be doing this more often now...
Pouring more water down after confirmed the drain tube now works, so hopefully this won't present itself as an issue again, especially with occasionally blowing air down the tubes to ensure they're clear. But **** was that not what I expected (or wanted) to do today.
At least the car is cleaner now:
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Since I had the roof console out, I took the time to replace the Superbright LED map and dome lights with the Diode Dynamics HP5s I bought during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale. The map lights hadn't worked in years...though by removing them and reinstalling them they seemed to be fine? But only after I put them in the dome light...so strange...but whatever, the DD lights seem to be a little bit brighter, especially because all the LEDs face down. The two dome lights were flickering occasionally as of recent before anyway, which is why I bought all four. The other odd issue that was solved was the interference with the key fob that the SBLED lights caused. No longer do we have to wait until the dome lights die down before the second press will work!
Domes:
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Maps:
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So much for just a car wash.
Since I had the roof console out, I took the time to replace the Superbright LED map and dome lights with the Diode Dynamics HP5s I bought during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale. The map lights hadn't worked in years...though by removing them and reinstalling them they seemed to be fine? But only after I put them in the dome light...so strange...but whatever, the DD lights seem to be a little bit brighter, especially because all the LEDs face down. The two dome lights were flickering occasionally as of recent before anyway, which is why I bought all four. The other odd issue that was solved was the interference with the key fob that the SBLED lights caused. No longer do we have to wait until the dome lights die down before the second press will work!
Domes:
Maps:
So much for just a car wash.
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