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Old 10-09-2019, 12:55 PM   #50 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Shaneajanderson View Post
With the Camry, I am proficient to fix pretty much anything that can break on it...
Mom's Camry has 190,000 miles. She has about one repair a year. Then there is that timing chain...

Pity. Mom has replaced her shocks twice. I drove her and my brother to Phoenix so we could visit my sister in Oregon. I needed to slow down much more than normal for the corners. I felt rather nervous with how the car handled. Then the car did not start. I got a jump and we made it to the nearest repair shop, but we barely made it into a parking spot. They said that Mom needed a new alternator and I asked them to look at the shocks.

The repairs should have been easy enough, so it was frustrating that I was not able to do them myself.

I replaced her original brakes back in December. The rotors looked perfect.
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