{"id":492,"date":"2016-02-18T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2016-02-18T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T11:00:42","slug":"my-car-plans-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/18\/my-car-plans-for-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"My Car: Plans for 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, right around the time I graduated school and got promoted at work, I finally bought my first car.<\/p>\n

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It’s a 1997 Honda Civic LX, manual transmission, 180,000 miles. I bought it for $1200, though I’m not sure that wasn’t more than I should’ve paid for it, based on the things I’ve had to do. The biggest repair I’ve done is a front subframe replacement, which I will detail in a later post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are my plans for work I’m going to do on it this year:<\/p>\n

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  1. Replace front pads & rotors<\/a>, rear drums, shoes, and hardware<\/a>.<\/strong> There’s always been a slight pulsation, and the rear brakes a creaking noise when I come to a stop. I would like to also replace the calipers, but I already have a lot to spend on this year.<\/li>\n
  2. Fix rear suspension noise.<\/strong> I have a little clunk heard in the rear, and while everything feels tight, a fellow mechanic says that it’s probably a bad bushing, so I’ll have to figure out which one and then take care of that.<\/li>\n
  3. Fix air conditioning<\/a>.<\/strong> I lived a whole summer without the air conditioning working, and I really don’t want to do that again. I just have to figure out if there’s a leak somewhere or the compressor’s just broken.<\/li>\n
  4. Properly wire foglights<\/a>. <\/strong><\/strong>In December I installed a set of Harbor Freight fog lights, partly because my low beams don’t do too well on country roads. Because of the cold weather, I only did a basic wiring job, and once it’s warmer I have plans for a very clean wiring installation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As always, I’ll try to take pictures of what I do during these repairs and if there’s anything interesting or a good story I’ll write a post.<\/p>\n

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    -Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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