We had a 1992 Buick LeSabre Limited in Dark Cherry Metallic. I used to drive it to high school when my car was in the shop.
You made me realize I screwed this up completely. We had a 1990 Buick century, Dark Maple Metalic.
We then bought my grandpa's 1992 Le Sabre off of him years later. Garnet Metalic, with the vinyl roof and gutless 3.8L V6. That's the car I learned to drive on.
Since it was the only time I ever remember us renting a car as a kid, I have fond memories of that generation of Buick Century, as it was what we took on our road-trip vacation to California. It too was maroon on maroon.
It was so comfortable, it lead to my dad buying a Buick Regal.
I will say that I kind of prefer the mouse fur seat covers of the 80’s compared to now where it’s pretty well all leather and synthetic leather. I’ll take a quality cloth seat over leather any day. Shame only Honda (type R) and VW (GTI) offer it in sporty vehicles.
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I'm vaguely handy and thought I would do my rear drum brakes on my Jeep. Watched a couple of videos, read a couple of guides. Nah, I'm good. Disc brakes sure, but all the pissing around with springs etc on drums - no thanks.
Random car question - my folks are looking to get rid of their nearly 10 year old Acura TL. This thing is in amazing shape, they never drive it. 50k km. They want to trade it in to save the hassle but I am wondering if it is worth my trying to sell it privately. I know trucks and SUVs are moving well, anyone have any sense of how mid sized sedans are selling?
I'm vaguely handy and thought I would do my rear drum brakes on my Jeep. Watched a couple of videos, read a couple of guides. Nah, I'm good. Disc brakes sure, but all the pissing around with springs etc on drums - no thanks.
Random car question - my folks are looking to get rid of their nearly 10 year old Acura TL. This thing is in amazing shape, they never drive it. 50k km. They want to trade it in to save the hassle but I am wondering if it is worth my trying to sell it privately. I know trucks and SUVs are moving well, anyone have any sense of how mid sized sedans are selling?
You should be able to sell for around $15k with such low km, would be lucky to get half that on a trade simply based on it being 10 years old. The market on used cars is always a buyers market do to over supply and lower demand vs truck and SUV's.
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Disc brakes sure, but all the pissing around with springs etc on drums - no thanks.
Funny, I've done lots of brakes and I think messing with the springs on drums is easier than the stainless guides on calipers that always need some forceful love.
And then there's the wind back calipers I never seem to have the right adapter for.
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I agree. For some reason, just getting the rear callipers back on the rotor without knocking one of the pads out off place seems to be way way harder than it should be, and that ends up being half the duration of the job for me.
Toyota will not be left out from the ugly grill trend. The rest of the truck looks fine(other than being ridiculously large), but man, that front end...
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We are getting extremely close to vehicles that have front ends that consist of nothing but grille and headlights. I almost vomited when I saw the initial photos of the upcoming Audi RS5 as like above there's very little non-grille on the front end.
