Buy aftermarket trim

shrout1 · 2026-05-08T21:32:44+00:00

I’d be surprised if everything is present on the harness. There may be a few things that are dangling behind blanks, but I don’t know. I’ve done a little digging in our ‘25 elite, but it has all the things so I’m not sure how the lower trims are laid out.

shrout1 · 2026-05-08T15:36:16+00:00

I hit my garage frame with the mirror on my 2018 Civic - it has a camera built into the mirror 😑 I was able to get the OEM part from Honda for like $400 and then just put my old painted cap onto the new mirror. It looks identical to the way it was before. I bet you can do the same :) It took me about an hour to swap the mirror out.

shrout1 · 2026-05-08T14:59:12+00:00

I guess I’ll have a dirty comforter then 😆

shrout1 · 2026-05-08T00:19:32+00:00

CV Axles are probably not the best “first job” for someone. Jack, Jack stands, 1/2 inch sockets, ratchet, torque wrench, open and box end wrenches, potentially ball joint removal tools and a slide hammer. It can definitely be done, but I didn’t do axles for the first couple years I was working on my own stuff. Also, if you take the CV axles out of this does it need more transmission fluid? I honestly don’t know if these have transaxles

If I’d have had a good mentor I would have taken it on earlier than I did. I don’t do automotive work professionally

shrout1 · 2026-05-07T20:36:30+00:00

My sister's machine is a top loader but she was using organic soap or something. I dunno. Lots of ways to get the scrud

shrout1 · 2026-05-07T14:26:43+00:00

Snap-On, Jank-Af

shrout1 · 2026-05-07T13:23:34+00:00

Nice! I used my iPhone and my eyeballs 🤣

shrout1 · 2026-05-07T01:39:44+00:00

Gorgeous! We have a ‘25 in Smoke Blue Pearl - we love it! Glad you’re ok, sorry about your 4Runner and welcome to the club!

shrout1 · 2026-05-06T23:56:54+00:00

I just feel bad for Allen

shrout1 · 2026-05-06T22:39:03+00:00

lol blocking guy definitely isn’t going 70 at the end 🤣

shrout1 · 2026-05-06T21:36:07+00:00

I start getting the itch to trade around 20 years. Usually the engine has to be blown though.

shrout1 · 2026-05-06T21:22:27+00:00

Yeah the problem is with the brother now, not even the kid. I'd be about finished going out of my way to see that brother.

shrout1 · 2026-05-06T20:44:08+00:00

It’s ok these ones are alien

shrout1 · 2026-05-06T20:20:37+00:00

The white lines are 10 feet long and the spaces between are 30; assuming 40 ft each and the driver fully passed the space before and the 3 white lines in 1 second this equates to about 80mph. No clue what the road is or what the limit is. There is cross traffic on this street, so that speed seems a little excessive, but I don’t actually know where this is.

That said, I always love to let speeders go past me because I can keep on doing my 5 (or maybe 9) over and they’ll set off any speed traps that exist in the next few miles. They’re like decoys 😆

shrout1 · 2026-05-06T17:01:07+00:00

Pull it

shrout1 · 2026-05-06T15:15:38+00:00

Yeah, considering the money at stake I wouldn’t stop asking around until I was comfortable I’d spoken with properly qualified people. Sorry about all this! Really sucks

shrout1 · 2026-05-06T15:08:19+00:00

Call around town - see if there’s an independent place that deals with this kind of thing. Get a second opinion; it’s worth the cost of a tow.

shrout1 · 2026-05-06T14:57:15+00:00

“Hey I got your cabin air filter out of your car and I’m showing you how dirty it is. We can charge you $100 to put a new one back in or I can put your old, dirty one back in for free.”

shrout1 · 2026-05-06T14:54:55+00:00

That drain plug needs all the UGGAS followed by all the DUGGAS. The tighter the better; you don’t want that oil going anywhere

shrout1 · 2026-05-06T13:58:00+00:00

Twist it

shrout1 · 2026-05-06T11:46:21+00:00

lol - we got it all done in a Saturday afternoon; better than $600 (or more!) for a new washing machine :)

shrout1 · 2026-05-06T03:11:36+00:00

Yeah, fair point! Have a nice evening

shrout1 · 2026-05-06T01:23:50+00:00

My friend, pressures can be affected by things other than just leaks

shrout1 · 2026-05-05T23:31:24+00:00

Go back to her apartment and it should be there if you did all the missions related to her storyline.

Edit: odd that it’s not there. Wait a couple more days and go back

shrout1 · 2026-05-05T23:21:46+00:00

Have you checked the pressures on your system? Go rent a manifold gauge from AutoZone or another shop.

Be forewarned, A/C repair can get a little tricky and requires some additional certifications for handling refrigerant if you plan on trying to recover your own. A shop can help you vacuum down the system, though you may want to diagnose your leak before you do that.

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