As is always the case with daily drivers, something will need to be fixed on them, more on some than others. In the case of the Scion, its a lot more. Because the car sees 200 miles use everyday during food delivery. This is especially the case with tires. This car eats tires just like it eats brakes, and even motor mounts, which I will also need to replace, since they too are bad. Even after replacing the front motor mount, it turns out the mount to the rear of the engine, the one I had the most trouble replacing, is also bad, so basically, I have to replace all of them later. The tires on the rear of the Scion are in the worst shape, getting bald. After getting a pair of tires, I took a moment to swap the tires from the front to the back since the front tires were still in good shape. Even though we could've just let the tire shop swap the tires around from the rear to the front, since they charge for this little bit of service, it only made sense to just swap them around myself and let them install the new tires on the now front rims and be done with it. Another thing to make note of, these rear tires were slightly larger than the front tires, which was part of a problem with supply, we were only able to get this size tire. Of course, the new tires we got were the proper size, not the larger ones, so once this job is done, the car will have all matching tires. Of course, as this cycle always goes, eventually the now rear tires will reach the end of their life and we will end up going through this crap again, and again and again, but whatever, it is what it is. Now, another thing that could be done to help alleviate this issue is being able to grab replacement tires and holding them in cold storage so this whole process can be done faster. Of course, being able to rotate tires properly so they all wear at least somewhat evenly, would allow us to just replace the whole set on schedule as it needs to be, versus doing this replacement in pairs crap. As stated before, the Scion will need all four motor mounts replaced, which will be another shitshow, just like before. I also need to replace some suspension parts on the car and as an aside, the AC line that we had to replace is finally back on the car and the system charged up and blowing snowballs once again. The work continues, and continues, and more...
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