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Xist · 04-24-2021, 04:14 AM

People always state their plans for the cars they purchase. Well, I am not downshifting to save my brakes, that is for sure. I have replaced the brakes and rotors on both my Accord and Mom's Camry.

It isn't hard or expensive.

Transmissions, though...

I had Accord for 50,000 miles and downshifted more than I used my brakes. How much longer would my gearbox have lasted if I just shifted to drive and then back to park at the end?

Mom uses her brakes vastly more than I do and she had her original brakes until a couple of years ago.

I plan on watching the timing cover leak, cleaning the bits the cleaners missed, replace the struts, get an alignment, just try to keep it clean, and then HHO, windmills, find ethanol-free fuel, disable the cylinder deactivation, vortex generators, gas pills, and magnets!

Is all of that mutually exclusive with an eBay intake, an eBay exhaust, eBay coilovers, and eBay... fuzzy dice?

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Xist Not Doug Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Show Low, AZ Posts: 12,302 Chorizo - '00 Honda Civic HX, baby! :D 90 day: 35.35 mpg (US) Mid-Life Crisis Fighter - '99 Honda Accord LX 90 day: 34.2 mpg (US) Gramps - '04 Toyota Camry LE 90 day: 35.39 mpg (US) Don't hit me bro - '05 Toyota Camry LE 90 day: 30.49 mpg (US) Thanks: 7,308 Thanked 2,246 Times in 1,733 Posts	People always state their plans for the cars they purchase. Well, I am not downshifting to save my brakes, that is for sure. I have replaced the brakes and rotors on both my Accord and Mom's Camry. It isn't hard or expensive. Transmissions, though... I had Accord for 50,000 miles and downshifted more than I used my brakes. How much longer would my gearbox have lasted if I just shifted to drive and then back to park at the end? Mom uses her brakes vastly more than I do and she had her original brakes until a couple of years ago. I plan on watching the timing cover leak, cleaning the bits the cleaners missed, replace the struts, get an alignment, just try to keep it clean, and then HHO, windmills, find ethanol-free fuel, disable the cylinder deactivation, vortex generators, gas pills, and magnets! Is all of that mutually exclusive with an eBay intake, an eBay exhaust, eBay coilovers, and eBay... fuzzy dice? __________________ "Oh if you use math, reason, and logic you will be hated."--OilPan4