Chico

For me, pretty much the same situations and experience. For the last 6 years I've had very little issues with car maintenance and repair. The last 6 months has been a completely different story. I'm not a mechanic or even mechanically inclined in any way but I'm not dumb either. Give some type of direction I could always figure something out eventually. Before these last 6 months and before the pandemic, I'd always opt to seek the advice and know how of a trained professional on whatever I need to work on. Didn't matter if I had to pay "extra". Car, house, whatever... I would rather have always had whatever job needed done , correctly, the first time. I'd always try to watch and learn, so next time a similar problem arose, I'd do it myself. I enjoyed "fixing" broken things since it's not something I did for my job. Lately, I've been disappointed, over and over again. At least in my area, it doesn't seem like anyone knows how to do anything anymore. That's where AI has come in, or the growing version we have seen over the last few years. By using it I've at least diagnosed problems before the actual person doing the job. Sometimes even used it to correct their mistakes and even teach them how to do it. It just seems strange to me. Most of them ask or rather get mad at me, like one time a mechanic told me, "if you know how to do it yourself, why don't you." My issue is I sometimes lack the correct tools or ability to actually perform the repair physically due to fibromyalgia. It's funny because since I was away for almost 20 years, it reminds me of when I ended up with my first MJ and on this site. I had no idea about anything. Every time an issue would arise, I'd just get on here and go, "Truck made noise, heard semi loud bang, truck is on fire, fire is now out. Won't idle correctly for some reason." Then someone like Hornbrod would respond at midnight and go "Do 1,2,3, drink a beer, and then 4." Then I'd drive off perfectly fine the next day with scorch marks across the hood but with a perfect idle. AI has been kinda the same way for me now. The other day, issue arose. Asked AI. Gave me somewhat of a reason for the problem and the solution. Bought the parts needed. Had them in less than 24 hours. Called the mechanic. He drove over on a Saturday morning. Changed the part in the driveway. Issue fixed in about 20 minutes. Gave him $60. Just kinda speeds up the process for me. Dealer wanted basically $700 and 3-5 days. Same thing with my kid's Corolla yesterday, CIL came on, even though nothing was physically noticeably wrong. Plugged in a friend's scanner. Pulled the code. Asked AI for possible issues and solutions. Ordered the parts today. Coming tomorrow. By Monday morning issue should be resolved hopefully. Costing me less than $200 and I can actually do this one myself. Called dealer this morning. First appointment was over 10 days away. $200 to diagnose. A lot more money for the parts and labor. And who knows if the tech would even do the job correctly since I can't find one that does. At least I know I have everything torqued down correctly, which no one seems to know how to do anymore. AI's solutions haven't always been "perfect" but like you said, do point me in the correct direction. Just honestly has made my life easier in some aspects to answer your original question. I'm in the food business so it's helped with that. And home repairs too. In conclusion, for me, it's filled the gap left vacant left by industries where there seems to be a lack of educated and qualified professionals left to do the correct job. Main thing is after 10 years I'm finally almost done cleaning out the garage to make working on my own things easier and, I'm little by little getting the tools I actually need, and tools that make doing some of these jobs a lot easier. But I wouldn't have bothered if it wasn't for this group and AI.

Really? You're a CPA? You taking new clients Tim? After almost 30 years,, I think I'm finally going to leave my accountant and look for a new one. I'm disappointed in mine. Nothing but a poor job done almost since the pandemic. I just got a letter form my local tax office two days ago that said I owe them $89 from 2023?!?! It's not the amount. It's just the principal of it. And it's been multiple issues like this, over and over.

Ok, so I'll get the OEM part numbers first and then look up rockauto. I started bouncing around online while bored last night and noticed there's a huge gap in pricing at different places. One site had 4 coils for $60. Then an "OEM" site was selling EACH individual coil at $116. The swing seemed wild but I haven't honestly researched it well enough yet. Since I got it for my daughter and, I sent her off to Uni with it, I prefer to put the higher quality parts in it so she has minimal problems while gone with it for the next few years. Saving a couple bucks here and there while still keeping the quality up is really helpful right now since her education is putting me in the poor house for the next 4-6 years.. As always, Thanks everyone!!

Anyone on here good with Toyotas ? I'm driving my daughter's 2014 around today and the CIL came on. Cylinder one misfire code. Looking to see if anyone knows where to get either OEM or reputable "higher quality" parts online and shipped home before I start researching them online tonight. Gonna start with plugs and coils first. Just seeing if anyone on here was also a Corolla expert to speed up my search. Thanks in advance!

Just study up on it's quarks. I'm in a group with a few guys that are at 200, 300, and even 500K miles. Many of them daily and wheel hard all year round with it. 1) Change the plastic coolant reservoir tank on the driver's side firewall to the aluminum one from Mishimoto with the view glass on the side. Do not bother wasting time on a generic form Amazon at a cheaper price. 2) Where the coolant lines run by the turbo, there are 3 plastic fittings you want to change to aluminum right now. The "T" right almost on top of the turbo and the elbow under the reservoir tank. Get the aluminum ones from Baha Customs. They come as a set. 3) There's at least one "Y" fitting between those two. You can get that one at Autozone or the like. There's another 1 or 2 "y" fittings in the system but those haven't caused issues yet. 4) Check to make sure you have the steel steering box and not the plastic one. If you do, have it changed now. There's a TSB in the system. 5) Being a 2025, I'm not sure if you have the 4xe. If you have the second aux battery under the main, delete it now and get the Jscan/ mini taxer to disable the Start/Stop feature. There's plenty of write-ups online if you haven't done it already. Mine is the Etorque with the big battery under the seat so I didn't have that problem. 6) Find the canbus sensor behind your glovebox. Little green guy. Buy 1-2 extras and just keep them in your center console. 7) Install an oil catch can from Mishimoto or such and empty it every oil change. Many say change it every 5K but I think 3K is a better idea if you plan on keeping the Jeep a long time. 8) Watch the oil separator on the passenger side of the block under the intake and change it at the earliest sign of seepage to a higher quality one. 9) Change the transmission pan to the one from PPE. 10) Watch for corrosion around the hinges on all doors, hatch, and hood. Or have them properly prepped and sprayed now so you don't deal with the corrosion later. 11) Change your rubber break lines to stainless steel ones now also. 12) Buy a cover for the arm rest on the middle console now. Trust me. That's the major stuff. All pretty simple and they've pretty much got it locked down with taking care of that stuff now, it eliminates a large percentage of any issues later in the future as long as basic maintenance is done. These are the guys hitting 300k miles and up. I'm at somewhere between 110-120K right now with no oil burn or leaks. Zip, zilch, zero..

Very cool. I have a 19 JLU with the same engine that I've had since 2020. It's been great. Couple things that needed worked on but overall been very happy with it over the last 100k miles and 6 years.

This is awesome Mike!

Been hearing a lot of that lately. Another place I posted headlights for the MJ that I was looking into and everyone's comments also negatively mentioned the Bronco. I'm not trying start any issues but why the "hate" for the Bronco. I get it when we're all just joking with each other but it is really a bad "car"? "Name"? "Brand"? I'm not a Bronco fan and don't own one but, I give them props for having "something" and having a following. Good for them! No idea if they're good cars but they don't look bad at all. And if someone enjoys their car so much, good for them. Look at us. We can't say that everyone loves MJ's. They're definitely liked better today I believe but, I remember 30 years ago hearing everyone go, "They're not a Wrangler." I think they headlight look is cool. Might get them for the MJ if it EVER gets delivered to MY HOUSE!?!?>!?

I guess more a Cherokee with the back end of an MJ. Not exactly my taste but at least from the pics it looks well done and given credit for. I've been snooping around FB and there's a lot of really nice OG, or taken care of, or modified, or the likes of down there,... it seems. Anybody's here? Or anyone on here from MExico?

This post put a smile on my face today. Thaks Hg!

Awesome! All of it!

At least I think it's AI...

oh, oh, Mikey... You're opening up the proverbial can-oh-worms! I ever tell you about the 1982 VW Rabbit P/U truck we stuffed a 2.8L VR6 12V into? That thing could haul gravel bro. Like at least 2-300 lbs Seriously though. Of course I love our Comanches but, This one time, at band camp, I got to drive a 2011 Ford F-150 Lariat, towing a Nascar trailer, with close to 8K lbs of mozzarella cheese in it, overnight, thru 4 states. Closest I ever got to feeling like Smokey and the Bandit, Trip was BAD-A$$!!!! And so much fun Not to mention comfortable. I gotta agree with Pete-O on this one brewsky.

You betcha people would be sir! However, If you really want to sell it quick, and for a good profit, make sure to include a potted plant in the bed of the truck, at no extra charge, like the one that came with the truck I just bought!

That is awesome dude! How can I get one of those? What kinda animal is that?