A couple of months ago, I purchased new brake drums all around. More than one of the existing drums are out of round and the front right tends to grab the pad at really unexpected times, trying to pull the car off the road. After jacking up the rear driver side wheel, I pulled...
When preparing my Ranger to go up for sale, I noticed the wiper arms looked really shoddy. Paint faded and chipped and surface rust. The ones on the Beetle had previously been painted but were also looking pretty shabby. I decided to take them all off, clean them up, and paint...
I'm a man of means by no means king of the road.
After AAA and their mysterious Fletcher locksmiths wasted half of my precious weekend, I decided to reach out to a local locksmith one evening last week. He met me in a parking lot an hour later and cut the new keys for me. There is something entirely strange going on with the...
After sewing a black vinyl fire extinguisher cover, it's time to actually install the thing. I purposefully aligned it a little off center on the tunnel, because my big ol' gas pedal foot was hitting the extinguisher when it was centered. A couple of self tappers held it in ti...
Since I was able to successfully break into my Beetle earlier after losing my only key, now I have to swap the old ignition switch and door handle with ones that I have keys for. Once I get a new key made, I will be able to swap the matching set back in. As mentioned in the Re...
I'm an idiot. We have established this. My key ring is a Harbor Freight carabiner. Keys fall off of it in my pocket all the time. While I was out of town at my mom's house, one day I happened to notice the Beetlebug key was nowhere to be found. I searched all through my dirty...