500 Dollar Car

Buying, repairing and living with a car costing one third less than a cellphone

Monday, April 2, 2018

C1175, C1297, C1222, C1296: Replacing rear wheel ABS sensor

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Entrapment.  My top fear, right after heights and too thick (or thin, for that matter) a glaze on my creme brulee.  No matter what I do to...
Sunday, March 25, 2018

C1175, C1297, C1222, C1296: Traction control sensors; the beginning

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Not that RCA. Root cause.   The next few posts will be about root cause analysis disguised as automobile repair. Properly doing an RCA ...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

300K!

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On my way to work this AM, hit the 300K mark.  Pulled over and got a snapshot of the odometer.  Mechanical odometers, as they quite litera...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Lift gate, minor issue, fixed!

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Owning a cheap car means compromising with various things sort-of-but-not-entirely working.  You don't drive the car, you negotiate tra...
Sunday, February 4, 2018

Battery of problems

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As noted , several times , my battery has died after letting the car sit unstarted, for shorter and shorter intervals.  Usually, after a j...
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