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Originally Posted by Xist
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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With mine it's the bushings on top of the struts, the shocks themselves work just fine. If the shocks ever go bad I'll take care of the clunky bushings, it's probably all factory still.
Mine has a timing belt, but the previous owners did all their service work at Cedric Theel Toyota in Bismarck so I just need to call them with a VIN and I can find out pretty much everything that's ever been done to the car, and figure out the next service intervals based on that info.
My commute is 42 miles of straight, mostly flat road with a couple of large hills, and only 2 or three turns. In three weeks it will change to a 30 mile drive that is straighter, flatter, with only 2 turns.