An ignition coil for my car can be had for a princely $17 on RockAuto. The life hack here is to not get ripped off by a mechanic having it put in; in most cars us Poor People are likely to be driving (i.e. not an Audi, Lamborghini, or Porsche) any garden variety fool with two thumbs and a $20 Harbor Freight socket wrench set can swap out an ignition coil in their on driveway in about 5 minutes.
That’s fair, in most cases I would have done it myself. When a coil pack died on my last car, we harvested one from a dead car on my dad’s property. I took it to a mechanic because I thought it was the transmission. By the time I got the diagnosis, I was afraid that the other pack would die driving it home to fix myself
Can all be done in your home driveway for under $100 and half an hour of free education from YouTube for 95% of all cars. They're all dumb easy, your least favorite coworker could do it. Depending on your level of expertise you can also add brakes to this list, but incorrectly installed brakes will kill you and will be expensive if they don't, so lots of folks leave those to the professionals. But if the shop recommends you any of the above you tell them no thank you and then you pick up the parts from AutoZone for 1/5 of the quoted price.
Special shoutout to batteries though, if you're driving a Rich People Car (essentially anything as or more expensive than a Benz) lots of them will fucking demolish your battery if you don't take it to the dealer service center to get the system reset with new battery voltage. Whole check system is frankly unnecessary and could be easily done automatically even if you did want it to happen, but no. They all want to ride the battery at the razor's edge of available voltage so that if you dare install one outside the dealer service center it'll last about six months before death, possibly catastrophic death. But if you're driving a Honda? No problem. You can remove the battery while the car is running and it'll just keep chugging along.
I hate to break the news to you that way, but I think you wasted some money. That said though, if one of those failed, the others might follow suit soon. Now you're prepared with the knowledge that you can fix it yourself for way cheaper if that does happen.
No need to worry, I know I pissed away a bunch of money for a relatively easy fix. I’m just glad that it was the coil pack and not the transmission like I thought
Not a fan of the big red boot, but I’ve loved a few of their other subversive designs. I just copped their latest Reebok Omnizone with pump bubbles all over the shoes and absolutely love them.
IMO 99% of the shoes I see for sale in stores these days are ugly as sin. All the expensive designer men’s shoes look like they belong on circus clowns and I absolutely don’t get what happened to everyone to just accept this shit. How am I the only one that thinks all these shoes look fucking horrible? Plus a ton of the expensive shoes now have shit for padding in the soles so you are forced to buy insole inserts to even wear them without being in pain. What happened to good shoes?!
I admire the honesty and respect the hindrance. Would totally repark with a bit more space. It’s also a considerate heads up that they’d like to not accidentally bash my door with theirs.
I would have thought crunchy and soft things meant some things that are crunchy AND some things that are soft. Clearly it means things that share both attributes though. I like this better than those odd ladies that whisper.
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