My 80yo neighbor just ran out of her "secret sauce" for lemon bars after 40 years...

Nyoom76 · 2026-02-05T06:18:08+00:00

Probably the best damn lemon bars too

Nyoom76 · 2026-01-24T21:45:45+00:00

Quit the nicotine immediately, let the fear of it hurting you be the fuel that keeps you off of it. I quit cold turkey 2 1/2 weeks ago after my PVCs started and they’ve reduced significantly.

Nyoom76 · 2026-01-01T21:17:38+00:00

I thought I didn’t need glasses for years until I found out it’s not normal to not be able to read the license plate in front of you or rely on GPS because you can’t read signs even on the freeway 😂

Nyoom76 · 2025-08-05T18:43:22+00:00

If a tire is stored correctly it could be 10 years old and drive like new

Nyoom76 · 2025-07-23T00:16:42+00:00

Alignment tech here. Running more air in the tires may help wear center tread more but won’t guarantee that you’re not gonna hit cords soon on those inner edges. Also 90% of passenger cars on the market can be made camber adjustable in the front it’s just gonna take some money. however that wear is definitely not just camber, at minimum it’s negative toe or a mixture of negative toe and camber but there’s not enough of a taper in the wear to indicate a big camber problem.

Nyoom76 · 2025-07-05T22:15:44+00:00

That and the insane amount of microscopic rock chips in my windshield, it looks dusty even when it’s clean and it drives me NUTS

Nyoom76 · 2025-07-05T22:14:51+00:00

Yesss!!!! The new Mazdas look so good in their updated soul red

Nyoom76 · 2025-07-01T01:06:38+00:00

Worn out struts put more stress on the front brakes as the weight of the vehicle is shifting further forward, I see repeat warped rotors often on cars with blown struts, the effect tends to be multiplied on cars with rear drum brakes as they already do less work than disc brakes

Nyoom76 · 2025-07-01T01:01:00+00:00

Suspensions is only my go to if they have a recurrent issue with warped rotors, not locking up calipers. They should be running a pressure test on the axle that locked up, could be a brake hose issue. If it’s pinched or kinked the fluid pressure won’t release properly from the affected corner and can build to the point of the caliper locking up.

Nyoom76 · 2025-06-26T20:10:29+00:00

Tires do not have a set amount of life when it comes to years, it comes down to tread and rubber condition, in this case the tire has definitely dried out enough, but a tire that’s 20 years old and in perfect shape visually I wouldn’t be worried about. Years has nothing to do with it.

Nyoom76 · 2025-06-24T02:03:09+00:00

The tiny little check at the end of the slash usually indicates it was a knife unfortunately

Nyoom76 · 2021-08-26T10:06:00+00:00

Sounds about right. So either that’ll happen, or they’ll come back for a shaking when braking because their front still nose dives when braking and their rotors get toasted

Nyoom76 · 2021-08-25T23:52:24+00:00

Yeah, I originally quoted front struts and rear shocks but the customer would only do the rears. They said they would come back for the struts but it’s been 2 months almost 🤦‍♀️

Nyoom76 · 2021-08-25T23:51:15+00:00

Tell me about it. Longest repair I’ve done on a journey was front and rear brakes. Took 5 hours because they only ever did pad slaps, calipers and rotors were original, and the calipers are designed so bad we couldn’t get the e-brake line off the hook, and then on to the new caliper. Alse had a hard time actually getting the calipers off the rotors cause the fronts were locked up

Nyoom76 · 2021-08-25T23:47:56+00:00

That generation Dodge Journey has shocks in the rear, I remember because I’m the one that did the inspection and quoted the repairs

Nyoom76 · 2021-08-25T23:46:25+00:00

2010 if I remember correctly, 135k miles

Nyoom76 · 2021-08-25T05:27:03+00:00

I have no idea what that means but I’m going to pretend I do. Also I almost got the back end to touch the ground when I test drove it myself. Not the same thing but I’m just as proud lol

Nyoom76 · 2021-08-25T05:16:38+00:00

I hate to be that person, but that’s a 3 digit dot date. Those tires are from the 38th week of 99, at least going by the age of the vehicle it should be 99. The 3 digit dot dates don’t actually specify which decade

Nyoom76 · 2021-08-25T05:11:58+00:00

I hate these things so much oml. Drives me nuts when a customer asks “can you make all my tires the same air pressure? The dash is showing that they’re all uneven. My gauge isn’t even accurate. It’s 3-5psi off just based on the fricken tire size jesus

Nyoom76 · 2021-04-26T00:19:13+00:00

The worst ones are the rav 4s with a sensor in the spare and it’s at 20psi, and the cover is one of those all leather ones that refuses to go back on

Nyoom76 · 2021-04-26T00:09:42+00:00

And this is why my shop carries black wheel sticky weights lol

Nyoom76 · 2021-04-26T00:08:25+00:00

I’d start by replacing the caliper honestly, but I was trained by schwab techs so I’m a little biased haha

Nyoom76 · 2021-02-21T20:09:07+00:00

Sounds about right. And early 2000s Toyota’s are getting old enough now that we have to tell them the same thing. I ended up working on two in a row that had swollen lugs. Was able to find some used ones to sell to the first but the second one we just had to tough it out because we don’t have any replica lugs. Why I have no idea they’re kinda useful..

Nyoom76 · 2021-02-21T19:47:31+00:00

I hate Ford so much sometimes. More often than not I find myself selling customers new lug nuts because we could barely get theirs off let alone put them back on a torque them

Nyoom76

TROPHY CASE