RIP to our faithful daily driver Corolla – totaled in an accident that was not our fault on 2/3/20. The car had over 270k miles on it and honestly felt like it could have gone another 250k. The oil samples always came back solid and the car took a number of beatings over the years…
Corolla Spark Plug Change How To Requires: 4x Spark Plugs (Denso IK16TT) 10mm wrench 3/8th wrench, spark plug tool (5/8th), extension tool There is a 10mm bolt holding down each spark plug connector. You can disconnect the connectors and unbolt each connector. I disconnected the entire rail and left the connectors on, but for this…
Finally got the Corolla realigned. It was messed up for a while, but it needed shims, which I was unfamiliar with, and ultimately held off on. Given that it was being use so frequently for my trips up to Chicago and work commute (~800-1k mi/week), decided to finally get this taken care of. I also…
Got a new head unit for winter 2018. My old one was feeling slow, and Joying, the company I’ve gotten past head units for, was offering a new 4gb ram/64gb storage head unit. Given the glitches in bluetooth, severe lag, and the fact that I was downloading more music to the head unit via Play…
After we hit a deer with the Corolla last year, we wrecked our passenger’s side fender, front bumper, and passenger’s side headlight. At that time, I purchased a set of new knock-off OEM headlights from eBay to replace the set. Unfortunately, the quality of those headlights was awful – the beam adjusters just did not…
With the Corolla pushing on strong with 223,000 miles, and my recent travel requirements, I’ve decided to make an upgrade to improve the livability by installing an Android headunit. How-to below. I purchased the Joying Android 6.0 headunit designed for the Corolla, which will come with the appropriate trim & connection to make this a…
This wraps up any experimenting I wanted to do with oils for the Corolla. Decent results coming out here, even with a shorter run in mind. Used Redline 0w20 for the next run as well, but realistically I’ll probably just use whatever is laying around for this car moving forward, and just change annually or…
Recently noticed a trembling with my Corolla on the highway. Thought the car might need an alignment, but when I brought it in we discovered the car was trembling because the left front brake has been clamping down on the rotor and wouldn’t let go. We noticed the brake hose was kinked and thought that…
Followed the details from a forum post – went very smoothly. You will need 12qts of ATF fluid to do a complete flush. Basically the process is Drain from the plug Drop the pan Drop the filter Install new filter Reinstall pan with new gasket Add about 4qts through the dipstick tube Disconnect the transmission…
I’m sticking to a once a year oil change interval for the Corolla using Amsoil SSO 0w20. Shoot me an e-mail if you’d like to grab some oil as well: Did the standard drain, plug & fill with more Amsoil 0w20 SSO, car immediately felt smoother again. However, I did make one change – the…
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