Recent content by buckminsterfullerene

I've had issues with my CVT, despite all of that, I actually like the CVT technology due to the fuel economy it gives me. It does make it pointless to have manual option on the S, because there are no set gears to go through, you do not get that type of feel.

If anything I have been driving less than normal, had been away for work for 3 days, and driven just to work and back mostly. This incident happened about 30-40 minutes into driving after the car had not been used for just over a day. But normally I do drive a lot (less than 2 years I have put...

Wanted to provide an update. The dealer found nothing wrong, they test drove the car three times and it worked well so they are saying there are no issues with the transmission. Their director is looking at the video, if I did not have it then I might not have a case and when it completely...

What the dealer typically ends up doing is test drive the car at different speeds and try to determine based on sound if it is working well or not. If in that span of 3 minutes that they drive they do not hear anything then they wont really check any further. Same happens in the 60k...

What beach bum mentioned. It is tempting to take to the dealer to fix any little problem even though they charge an arm and a leg sometimes. We make the assumption that a dealer is going to do the job right every time, they don't want you coming back over and over again to fix every little...

1992 Toyota Celica - Manual (Favorite car to drive by far, too bad it had electrical issues that left me stranded on multiple occasions but I was a poor college student) 2004 Chevrolet Cavalier (it lasted, was in my family bought new until a fool in an SUV decided to make a U-turn without...

The previous metal in this case happens to be Palladium. Its a critical component for hydrogen fuel cells as well. Back when I first looked up this metal in 2007 the price was around $100 per troy ounce, now it is approaching $900 per troy ounce. phew pricy.

approaching 37k on my 2016 Special Edition. been going for the 5k maintenance almost monthly until my recent job has me driving less miles.