I think if I ever have an issue like this I'll drive down to Mexico and have the work done there. Might as well get dental work while I'm at it.

Going through California, Oregon and Washington between March 18th-20th I never found anything below 2.36 a gallon, I believe. SInce I've been home on Vancouver Island the lowest was 86 cents/Litre at Costco for a week or so.

I just did an oil change on my 2010 1.8L, but I used a Napa Gold filter that was definitely similar to the older long style filter. It's possible that the shorter filter will fit as the engine has a spring loaded portion in the housing with a 1-2 cm play in it, but I'd definitely be more comfortable...

Today I drained the transmission fluid and oil and then put in a new filter. Next I filled the oil and transmission fluid. I'll be doing another transmission fluid drain/fill in a week or two because you only get about half of it each time. I last had the oil changed in Puerto Vallarta. They torqued...

Ha, ha, ha........I'm ROTFLMAO going back 7 years and reading Jake's post. Since 2011, I've had more interest in servicing my car and solving my car's problems at Toyota than at any GM dealership. I'm confident that all the incorrect information regarding Dexcool and Type IV fluid found in our Gen ...

I found a fully synthetic transmission fluid that claims to be WS compliant. It's called Klondike and is available at Napa in Canada (not sure about the US, sorry). Here's a link to the product information page: https://klondikelubricants.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/KLONDIKE_KL-TF30_Universal_Ful...

zbyers wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 6:19 am That is a beautiful picture. South Dakota?

If you are talking to me, no, it isn't South Dakota. It's Playa Juncalito just South of Loreto in Baja California Sur.

We maxed out our towing capacity on a recent trip and probably took off some life span on the vehicle as a result, but it handled well and didn't cause any problems as long as we watched the tongue weight and didn't let the load get too far back. We're looking at getting a dedicated tow vehicle for ...

We have studded snow tires for the ugly times of year and just bought Michelin Premiers for the rest of the year (and to start a trip to Baja with new tires). Why the defenders? Performance combined with bang for your buck. Costco had a sale on them otherwise we'd probably have gone with the Pirellis.

I've had problems like this in our 2010, but not in our old 2006. The original pads and rotors lasted about 60k km. Replacement pads started to go after 6 months (under 10k) but got it fixed before the rotors took any damage. I got a tip to prevent this from a guy who did some work for us on a recen...

Recently our 2010 base vibe has developed a low speed wobble somewhere in the front end. Here's the story along with the fix. At low speeds, we have been experiencing a significant wobble in the front end that you can feel quite noticeably, not just in the steering wheel, but also causing the whole ...

We've put two kayaks on our roof racks: a Necky Zoar and a Necky Manitou 13. No issues, fairly long trips (3+ hrs). My brother puts three paddle boards on his.

We have a nice light aluminum frame utility trailer, but we've put a fair bit of stuff in it. Building materials, a half cord of wood, two dirt bikes, appliances, a miniature horse, you name it, we've hauled it. Not that we haul a trailer often, but we use it for what it's made for.

Our 2005 Vibe (ordered custom from the dealership back at the end of '04, received in Dec) has approx. 270,000 km. So far, $150 for fixing an exhaust leak, new tires a few times, regular oil changes. I changed the front struts when I thought the wife had said they were reported as leaky when purchas...

After finding this thread and downloading the pdf's with the diagrams, I'm starting strut replacement (front only) on my '06. I started today, but ran into a snag as I was mostly following a tutorial on YouTube that didn't mention the "Front Stabilizer Link Assembly" (sway bar link) that's...

You might also want to check the stabilizer assembly (connects the sway bar to the strut). It can clunk if either ball joint goes bad or it's loose.

Thanks for posting this howto - really makes this a trivial job in a lot of ways. I got my blower motor out and opened it up to find it was fouled up with dust from the brushes. Didn't think they'd wear that fast (car's just under 5 years old with around 125k kilometers on it). Anyway, I cleaned it ...

My decision to go Vibe over Matrix was because:1. Better cargo hatch due to more intelligent rear light styling.2. Base model has air conditioning. To get air conditioning for the Matrix you have to get some rediculous package with a bunch of option I don't want.3. You can pick and choose options on...

He immediately offered to pay - that's not a problem. Just want to find as good a solution as possible as cheaply as I can. I'll talk to body shops and the local dealership and see what they say.

2005 Salsa (monotone mean it's all one color?). Looking at it in the day time, there's a 1" tear and a fair bit of scuffing around it. Too bad it's not fiberglass as it could be fixed up pretty easily.

My wife was over at a friends house and her husband backed into our baby! There's a 3-5 inch long ding in what passes for a front bumper right above the drivers side fog light. Any advice on how to get this fixed without costing a friend a big chunk of change?

Hey, there, Islandvibe. Another Islander here (Courtenay). Hope you are enjoying the new car as much as I am.

I financed the whole thing - just payed my mortgage off on my house and need something to keep me from spending my money on foolish things like more computers and vacations or something. My base vibe (salsa) with ABS and side air bags came in at 22,000 CDN and after a couple of dealer options, feder...

All wheel drive or 4 wheel drive with a standard transmission and possibly a more powerful motor (not a hopped up cam system like the GT - we'd want the lower end torque not the high end).

Wow, close call.Reminds me of one time when I was driving to Victoria from Sooke. There's a long stretch of 1 lane traffic each way with double line down the middle and I got stuck behind someone who would just slow down and speed up (down to 25km/hr on a 80km/hr road). It was dark and raining. We g...

Had to factory order mine. No base vibes with ABS and side air bags in salsa or neptune anywhere in Canada. Really, though, better off to FO in many parts of Canada because the shipping from another dealership can eat any margin for the dealer and give them no room to move on the price. Just wish my...

My neighbors in an old neigborhood were auto body people (father and son). They helped me out whenever I was working on fixing up an old vehicle. One of the pieces of advice they had for small dings like this was to get a small broken drill bit and use that to dig out the rust from tiny dings like t...

The toyota spec is for 192,000 km for first spark plug change under good conditions.

Thanks all for the warm welcome. Hope this is as much fun as my old air cooled VW days Quote, originally posted by joatmon »congratulations and welcome to genvibe. Since you'll be getting the car in the middle of winter, remember that the factory tires are probably not very good in the snow.If we g...

So wife and I finally got in to a dealership to get a Vibe. We'd been researching for weeks trying to figure out exactly what we wanted in a car and settled on a Vibe. We were still discussing which options we wanted on the drive to the dealership. Finally decided base Vibe with ABS and side air bag...

Three things got me in a Vibe rather than a Matrix:GM Visa dollarsBetter system for doing options. With the Matrix in Canada it's mostly all or nothing packages. With the Vibe you can choose things like ABS one at a time.Toyota is no haggle where I live. Pontiac will deal. Both have about the same m...

Just ordered my Vibe in Salsa. I kinda preferred the Neptune, but wife and I could both agree on the Salsa. Wife wanted that metallic orange color, but that was a non-starter for me.