No worries, one of my neighbors is of the “neglect the car until it violently dies” category of car owner. His car SCREAMS the whole time It’s running, the brakes SCREAM the moment any pressure is applied, it leaves oil spots everywhere he parks it, and on and on.
He won’t fix it, won’t have someone else fix it, he just keeps driving it.
It’s sad to see him kill that care with his lack of care.
Vehicle over 2 tons? New license tier, restrictions on where it can park, and put a speed limiter in them capping it at 70mph.
Over 4 tons? New tier that requires the previous tier as well, more strict parking restrictions, speed limiter to 60mph.
Not to mention I’d say vehicle size as well as weight should factor in too.
I’m hoping it’s the belt but it does have a significant amount of miles on it and the items on the belt have held on so far.
The brakes are a major thing to fix and you should def get that fixed (or do it yourself) in quick order.
And at least on my Kia that aircon belt is the deepest belt in the engine bay, it’s a bitch to get to. It’s why whenever I do my timing belt I do all the belts at the same time, no matter how bad or not they look. I don’t wanna deal with getting in there a second time lol
As the other commenter said, it’s one of the other belts not the timing belt. If the timing belt slips the engine dies in quick order. Far louder and with a great degree of violence.
This is the first time it’s happened on my shitbox and funnily enough it’s only 10k miles before when I planned to do all the belts (My car has 4 belts including timing). I do them every 60k miles as a preventative measure primarily because I have to remove all of them to get to the timing belt, and since I’m in the I might as well swap them too.
I work on all my cars myself I just have to do it on the side of the road because I’m not supposed to work on my car on the property other than inflating as tire, checking fluids, or jumping the car.
At this point both of my cars are almost at the distance from the Earth to the moon in terms of the odometer and I’m gonna do my best to get them to the distance of there and back again at least. My plan is to fix them until I can’t anymore, and given my skill set that’s gonna be purely a parts availability thing likely caused by the windows at some point.
Good news is my city is rolling out more bike lanes and their getting a lot of support from the community
I’m just outside of city limits though and my neck of the woods is WAY DOWN the list for upgrades
Nah, it’s a Kia
My CRV does it as well but I’m less concerned about that than I should be lol
Instructions unclear, flying in wrong fluid.
Ain’t got no smart features, ain’t got no “info-tainment” screen, it’s got physical controls for everything, no “fly-by-wire”, I don’t get ads in my car, it goes where I want it to, when I want it to, and big brother doesn’t get to know about it.
It’s got 200k miles and BY MY HAND, it’s gonna get 200k miles more!
I’m gonna fix my shitbox until I can’t to keep it on the road
And given my knowledge and skills, that’s gonna take quite the feat to get me to stop fixing it
New cars are awful and stupidly expensive, 20+ year old econoboxes are the way to go
Rock Auto really is the best for new parts IMO
What I ordered was only a couple states away, and then seems to have stopped 20miles from my apartment.
I think they lost it.
Fun fact: my daily used to be a project, but it’s been so reliable for the last few months that the other day was when I started looking into getting a new project. Then it started throwing codes left and right.
It’s like it knew lol
New to me, the one I’m currently looking at (First gen Hyundai Excel) has been sitting in one of my neighbors yard for 17 years. (They’ve got a few but there’s only one I’m interested in that they have)
The other one I’m looking at (a 1979 Saab 900 hatchback) has been sitting in a different neighbors yard since 2001.
Basically a project to restore a car to a drivable state to prevent another new car from hitting the road or an old but fixable car from becoming a cube.
“Please submit your butthole print for identity verification.” -Coming to a website near you!
Blender is awesome!
Not with the same camera (I don’t have a filter I can slap on the modded camera to go visible spectrum)
I took that one about a half hour before I did with the full spectrum camera because after getting home my boss gave me the day off. I did get some nice pictures with my G9 on that walk but I’m still sorting through the pictures.
looks at PC “Are you ready champ?” - Me
I’ve never been more ready. - My PC
I enjoy my small shitbox (2007 KIA Rio5 hatchback) and wish I had a smaller shitbox to commute in
One of the biggest perks is the fact that my little shitbox is FIXABLE by sane people with standard tools! No special tools, parts are literally everywhere, and all the parts are DIRT CHEAP. The engine is in Hyundais and KIAs from 1989 to 2011. If it’s a 1.6L 4 cylinder made by those 2 companies it’s the same engine between ALL OF THEM.
EDIT: The biggest difference is the exhaust routing. The midpipe on the Hyundais is straight, the KIAs it’s got a bump.
Damn there’s always a catch