In the ongoing saga of the limp-wristed wiper arm, I doubled up the last springs I bought, hoping that doubling the tension would improve things. But, of course, it doesn't work like that. Results were the same or worse. I headed back out to the hardware store and bought the o...
I went out for a drive today. It was a nice, sunny day. Until it wasn't. I left a wiper blade in the middle of the road somewhere. Turns out, if they are super easy to install, they can be uninstalled just as easily while in use. Lesson learned?
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...
Last summer in (Please Don't) Burn Baby Burn, I purchased a fire extinguisher to keep in the car. I just left it awkwardly laying under the edge of the passenger side floor mat. My plan is to mount the bracket that came with it to the tunnel under the dash. I was visiting my m...