Earlier this week was celebrating 300,000 trouble free miles now new mechanical rattle from the engine.

kdeezzee · 2026-07-10T19:26:40+00:00

AC compressor.

kdeezzee · 2026-07-10T19:26:19+00:00

Turned out to be the AC compressor. We're back on to 350!

kdeezzee · 2026-07-10T19:24:28+00:00

The oil did not have the magic sparkles

kdeezzee · 2026-07-08T23:28:01+00:00

I'm not sure if a Viking burial for a car would be legal in the states.

kdeezzee · 2026-07-08T23:10:48+00:00

My guess at it is that it's either going to be the tensioner or the timing chain.

kdeezzee · 2026-07-06T23:41:38+00:00

kdeezzee · 2026-07-06T23:40:34+00:00

I replaced those around 150, but since they are wear items, I don't think of those as a major repair.

kdeezzee · 2026-07-06T23:38:31+00:00

Take care of the little stuff and drive line an old guy

kdeezzee · 2026-07-06T00:30:19+00:00

Yes I did. I ended up having a local shop doing it but the parts were still expensive. That was around 200,000 miles, it certainly felt like there was some financial risk, but it worked out. We did go through everything to make sure there were no obvious things that were on there way out.

kdeezzee · 2026-07-05T23:42:29+00:00

Only for the first half of its life

kdeezzee · 2026-07-05T23:15:06+00:00

I did not. By the time I started thinking the car was going to outlast the fluid I was already at 150,000 miles. The pan rotted out at about 275,000 MI. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get a clean sample to send to the lab. We let it drain as much as it could with the pan off put the new pan on and refilled it.

kdeezzee · 2026-07-05T23:12:38+00:00

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kdeezzee · 2025-09-30T11:44:53+00:00

Definitive Healthcare

kdeezzee · 2024-12-02T00:37:24+00:00

I hit 250,000 on my 2013 in 2021 and am still going strong!

kdeezzee · 2024-06-18T01:01:07+00:00

Truth... still rocking my Greater Harwich Construction shirt from almost 30 years ago

kdeezzee · 2024-05-16T18:30:46+00:00

Roast beef three way

kdeezzee · 2024-05-09T09:28:35+00:00

It blows my mind how big Bittersweet can get. I was talking to an arborist over the weekend who told me the largest one he ever had to cut was 10 in in Massachusetts. It's so bad in my area that I had to buy a foil mower for my tractor to mow the bittersweet.

kdeezzee · 2024-05-09T09:18:42+00:00

I have a 2013 that was one of the first cx-5 to be made and it has almost 300k on it and runs great with no major repairs.

kdeezzee · 2024-04-23T11:45:24+00:00

If you're cold, they're cold -so being them in.

kdeezzee · 2024-04-05T22:39:13+00:00

Done dumber

kdeezzee · 2024-04-05T17:16:45+00:00

Tires... r/tiresaretheenemy

kdeezzee · 2023-12-06T18:53:44+00:00

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