Recent content by doughboy52

It's sad letting a car like that go! That RSX was my wife's first car out of college and was a great little car. But it was a third car seeing little use while we cart around the kids and was in desperate need of tires. Decided not to pay the money for tires and reap the savings by shedding...

We did just sell our 2006 Acura RSX, that one was getting up there. So my 2013 (that we've had since July 2012) is "old" relative to our three-year-old Highlander.

It wasn't till we bought our first car with CarPlay a couple years ago that made me realize how truly awful my head unit is and contemplate replacement. But at this point I'm not putting that kind of money and time into a car that old.

2013 FWD here, have had it since July 2012. Car threw a P1450 code at around 7 years old/85,000 mi and it was a pretty expensive job to replace a purge valve because they had to drop the fuel tank to access it. Control arms were replaced at the same time because they were in rough shape...

I took it to the parts department, who went into the shop and asked the master mechanic on shift. Apparently it's some sort of heat shield from the catalytic converter and they've seen them fall out during oil changes and other work on CX-5s. Said not to worry about it (dunno) Odd that Mazda...

Heh, my wife is the primary driver of the car, so I don't know what's going on with it most of the time!

Does anyone have an idea what this pad is? It dropped out from the car when I removed the shrouding underneath to drain transmission fluid. Measures about 3" x 6" and is about 1/4" thick, filled with what looks like fiberglass. I don't remember seeing it anywhere under the hood. My only...

I think it's too small to be that? Still can't get the upload to work directly or via link and waiting to hear from the mods, so I posted it to Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/29MzDb4

Ha! Odd things end up in cars sometimes. One time I noticed something inside the front bumper cover, in front of the radiator. It turned out to be some sort of metal electrical conduit clamp or something stamped with the brand name Hubbell. The thing is about 2" long and is heavy, but I...

I successfully did the drain and fill for my first time on any car - thanks to all for the photos and advice! I figured out a way to do everything without removing the air box after initially removing it to figure out where everything was. The dipstick can be removed from under the car as...

Thanks, guys. It appears it was just the system having trouble re-learning properly. I kept trying and trying and finally tried hitting the button while I was cruising at highway speed and it never came back on after that. Its weird...Ive reset the system so many times after tire rotations or...

Thanks. You're right, I think the sensors are something like $30. I'm not getting any ABS errors, though, which is why I've somewhat doubted this as the issue. But the TPMS light just keeps coming on and I don't know what else it could be.

I changed the front brake pads and rotors and rotated tires on my 2013. Drove the car to bed the brake pads, let the tires cool, then adjusted tire pressures and initialized the system. Next drive I got the TPMS light. Do I have the misuse prevention issue? Another possibility after thinking...

It really depends on how you need to position your front seats. I'm 6'5", so installing the Diono in the middle without using the angle adjuster still interfered too much with the front seats. Install without the angle adjuster to see, then buy if necessary. I would have used the angle...