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The plastic broke, because of course it did. Fortunately China has replacement covers available for ~$25 so I ordered one. It's even "leather"! Here's the stock one. The cover material has actually held up well, but the structure didn't. You can see the broken ears at the rear of the conso...

It's going to be a new car soon. I didn't take take that many (or good?) photos, but it's all pretty self explanatory if you're familiar with Macphereson strut front suspensions. The struts weren't leaking yet, but did make an audible squish/hiss sound when going over bumps. Based on how they perfor...

It worked, turns out I didn't need to pay for extra fast shipping. Oh well. Here are some photos: Step 1: locate console. 20210805_063118.jpg The shifter boot pops out and you can access a couple screws that hold the plastic in. 20210805_063029_HDR.jpg You can then pop the console cover out in order...

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This is actually a mechanical failure of an electrical part. For maximum irony? It failed while trying to put the window up which is ok until Wednesday when it's supposed to rain. The switch feels like it's no longer connected to anything inside, because it isn't. There's an elaborate assembly of pl...

Rockauto sells the new fluid for $7.16/qt while 'normal' AC Delco Dex VI is between $5.73 and $6.41/qt depending on what shape bottle you want, so not too much more expensive. I wonder how well it works in 4L60E's? Going from high mileage Dex III to Dex VI is quite an upgrade in an old transmission.

The Aurora sold for $3900 which is more reasonable than I expected.

kevm14 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 6:24 am It's kind of crazy that this same year SL with the same engine as my car was $40k more expensive.

That rear door delete really drives up the retail price.

Slashed! To 40% over book value. To be fair, cars are only worth what someone will pay for it, which might not be some the same number as an arbitrary number in a book/website. And that number is somewhere under $24,500 in this case.