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I've just got a vacuum bleeder for $40 Canadian or so. That's not a lot... There are also valves that go over bleeders that prevent fluid from flowing back, if you insist on pumping the pedal. What I'm saying, there are many more productive and safe ways to do it. But if someone without...

Man, I praise your effort, but your procedure is wrong on many levels. Read up how it is done in the service manual. In this day and age of one-man pressure and vacuum bleeders, there is absolutely no need to touch the brake pedal, and the whole ordeal is much cleaner and doesn't involve...

eBay or AliExpress, can't remember, it was a while ago. They're all made in China for GM.

Here. The mesh and the car desperately need wash, but it's too hot, and the beer is too cold...

Take a peek at your condenser rad behind the grill. And mourn the untimely departure of all these little creatures that found their end wedged into the rad fins. Seriously guys, everyone should have a black aluminum door screen mesh installed behind the bumper cover. When my wife is back, I'll...

You can try different shop. However, you've got to realize that if they are unable to reproduce it on the test drive, good chances are that the new place will be unwilling to do anything either. Unless you're willing to pay for diagnostics. You see, they have to make a technician to rip into the...

I'd check lug nuts tightness first...

Sorry, Scangauge is the device. Old fashioned, showing four parameters of your choice, with many different functions. Forscan can read many more times PIDs then Torque. I guess, it's individual's choice what to use. To me, I take information ahead of its presentation.

Forscan is for Fords and Mazdas only. However, extremely deep digging. The laptop app is quite on par with OEM software. I haven't found anything better for GM yet, besides Tech2 that I also have. But on the road I use Scangauge2, and sometimes Torque Pro.

Tahoe- not that much anymore. Masda more frequently. But even if they were driven every day to work, the battery state of charge would not be near 100% no matter what. Batteries love to be at 100% though, otherwise they last 3-5 years, even less. It doesn't take much for me to hook Mazda up- the...

I use Forscan for Mazda and TorquePro for Chevy. I didn't have the need for Pro yet, but what a heck...

Sometimes it takes more than 5min to take gas and take a leak :-) You'd be surprised how fast the battery can run out of juice, particularly the older one. Ours is top notch with smart charger hooked up weekly for two days or so. That's the routine I follow with both our cars. Years ago I...

Thank you! For a cleaner set-up the relay should have been used. Although the standard automotive relay doesn't fit in that compartment. As long as you know not to run a cooler in the back and a coffeemaker up front, the load balance will be fine.

I can't be alone in my wish to have rear outlet to only have power only with ignition on. We take a portable 12V cooler with us on the long trips, and it is a pain to run out to the trunk to turn it off at the gas station. Small battery can't sustain that power draw for long, so I do it every...

I went through the same ordeal with foam tubes and abandoned the idea rather quickly. For tubes, use the steel fishing string and lube the inside of the seals with silicone lube. Keep lubing the tube as you pull it through the seal. They sell special water-base lube, I got mine at Home Depot...

Just a small suggestion. When I did my other car, I put soft silicone tubes through the stick-on seals. This gave them additional sealing power, particularly during winter months. Doors are closing just fine.

I'm all for limitations for users. But why? That's my question. I guess it does. But curiosity feeds the cat...

It takes some creativity, but you can do it with second fob, or physical key.

No, that's not what I suggested. The car has to lock itself after the last door is shut with no fob in range. Perhaps after a programmable delay, but I'm not sure what would that be for beyond 15 seconds or so. By "no fob in range" I mean not within the ignition range. The car, as it is, is...

Where did I say to lock keys inside? It takes some effort to do that, and I'm fine with this. What does it have to do with locking doors with no key in range thought?