Well, I decided to park it for now. It's still too cold outside to work on it in my unheated garage. It needs a rest anyway.

Cheers

Two days ago I backed my 02 SE out of my drive way and when I shifted into D the trans wouldn't shift into gear, it just free-revved, but I could tell it wasn't in nuetral. I put it in nuetral, then back into D and it slowly engaged. I started driving slowly down the road and I could tell it was ...

I had to have mine replaced because a mounting flange for the left side control arm was breaking loose. Ever since then my left rear wheel can't be aligned. It is toed in too far and wears my tire unevenly. After awhile it gets cupped pretty bad. The alignment shops (I've been to two) say they can't ...

I have a leak in the exact same spot so I'll be repairing mine soon too. Not really looking forward to it because my Bonnie is my only car, so I really can't afford for it to be out of commission more than a weekend.

Oh well

You need new struts and mounts. Very easy replacement.

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Please forgive me for asking, but what is a UIM and an LIM? It would be nice if posters would spell it out at least once in their post before using abreviations.

TIA,

Ditto.... good job. My headlights look that bad. Could I use some plastic polish and good ole elbow grease on mine? Or is a buffer absolutly required?

My 02 SE did the same thing. I discovered it had been wrecked before I Bought it. Loosen the striker where the door latches, and slide it inward slightly. That stopped my leak.

I need to replace the ball joints on my 2002 SE. It has aluminum control arms. When looking for parts online I see ball joints for steel control arms and for aluminum control arms. Can anyone tell me what the differnce in the two ball joints would be? I recently bought one from a local parts store ...