I feel your disappointment when a job goes sideways, it’s never as simple as it looks. The guys who show you how on YouTube have ruined how many in trial? We will never know! As previous posters has mentioned, the wet install plan seems to work out best and lots of pre marking and taping for...
I’ll give credit to the winter use of a battery tender for the increased life- previous batteries were 3.5-5 years. Installed 5th battery,(including original) car @ 21 years old
Today my 9 year old battery decided to change its pronoun to un-chargeable at a gas stop while on the way to Petty raceway.A quick stop at Costco fixed that problem,H6 battery installed in the parking lot and back on the road. It’s been a long time since the wrenches I carry were used to fix my own.
So far I've got 6000km on the pilot sport AS4 on my 2005 - i like them, seem stickier than the AS3 i ran before. I had 235/5517" as3's now 255/40 19" as4's and surprisingly i don't notice much increase in roughness. Handling is sharper. I notice a bit more tramming with the wider tire on...