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Today after grocery shopping returned to the car, took down the sunscreen and the mirror was bumped (which happens often) but it made a much...
If it isn't too hot (50:50 at this point, it was in the 90s today) I'm going to change the belt for the water pump this weekend. The pump is...
It is my impression that our 2007 burns more oil at highway speeds than around town. Admittedly this may be observational bias, because going 700...
It is common for the MFD to fail because an electrolytic capacitor used by Toyota wasn't quite the right capacity and over time it degrades to the...
Out of curiosity, if one were to loosen the tension bolt for that belt by exactly N turns (whatever it takes to remove the belt), swap on the new...
My mother needs to stop driving soon. (More like last year.) Her 2010 Prius with around 70k miles seems to have been well maintained. Other...
For many years, like once a year, I pour a bottle of Techron in our cars' tanks before a fill up. Take off the cap, poke a hole in the foil seal,...
Does the car give some clue when it shifts from Open Loop to Closed Loop? That is, some way the driver could definitively tell when that happens?...
Made the yearly trip from SoCal to San Jose to visit family, outbound only so far. The two previous trips were something like 49 mpg and 48 mpg...
Reviewing the CarFax records for our car from before we bought it, it had: 75K service, includes "drive belts replaced" Since there is only one...
This topic comes up from time to time, and since it was coming up on 7 years since our 2007's headlights were fully redone, I thought I would take...
Last night I had to drop my daughter-in-law off at an event, and the parking lot had really high speed bumps. So I crawled over them very slowly...
I changed the 12V battery (very) recently. Today while playing with a new Autel AP200 I noticed that the long term fuel trim was reading -0.8%....
I changed the ICE coolant on our car yesterday, refilling by putting fluid back in through the drain valve under the heat storage tank. (Siphoned...
FYI Bought a new 12V for the Prius yesterday from Walmart. Model number is W46B24R and it was the only Prius battery on the shelf. A few...
This screw was found loose this morning on top of the inverter. Facing the engine compartment from the front of the car it was in the sort of...
Today I visited a local independent battery shop to see if they had a S46B24R battery. Always good to support small local merchants. My son...
Let's say one wants to change the coolant on a 2nd generation which was driven the night before. The majority of the coolant is at (or maybe...
The rule of thumb I have always seen for rubber coolant hoses in cars is to change them every 10 years. However that probably dates back to the...
I made some measurements about current usage in our 2007 for various combinations of power state and electrical options. In the first table,...
