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Introducing Radwood's Project Armadillo
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This is my 1995 Audi S6 sedan. If you’ve been reading Hooniverse for a while, you may recognize it from Project Car SOTU in the past. It’s long served as an excellent daily driver, and in fact we just crossed our sixth year together. For those six years, it’s needed little more than regular maintenance,…
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OEM vs Aftermarket: TYC Taillights
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My Toyota 4Runner is a 2010 model year vehicle, the first year for the fifth generation model. Yes, it’s getting old now but with less than 60,000 miles, it’s still very solid. And it’s not even that outdated. The 4Runner received a facelift for the 2014 model year but it did not change mechanically. The…
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Hooniverse Asks: Ever been a victim of hit-and-run?
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Afternoon rush hour. My wife was stopped at a red light in the middle lane of a three lane road after picking up my son from school. The left lane was for left turns only and the right lane was for right turns only. The left lane got an early green light for turning left.…
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Yakima racks now available at Toyota dealerships
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Traveling light isn’t something many people do these days. With two kids and a wife who likes to bring everything where ever we go, I am the guy with the roof pack, bike rack, and the cargo area filled to the roof. But I am not the only one, far from it. Here in downtown…
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Can I fix the headlight switch on my W114 Mercedes-Benz?
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Short answer: yes I can… this isn’t clickbait, broski and bro-ette-ski. In the last Shift Happens, I left off attempting to get my 1974 Mercedes-Benz 280 sedan sorted. The W114 four-door suffered a crapped out headlight switch (technical term) and it needed replacing. In the process of removing it, I found it was quite necessary to…
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An update on my 1974 W114 Mercedes-Benz 280
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The new car stuff has been fun lately, but now it’s time for a brief update on my old Benz. This is my 1974 W114 Mercedes-Benz 280 sedan that serves as my daily driver. It’s in decent shape for a car that’s 43 years old. Still, it has some issues that need to be worked…
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Aftermarket Audio: From Replacement to Integration
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Back in the good old days, the 1980s and 90s, car audio, like everything else, was simple. Most vehicles had a DIN-, or double-DIN-sized headunit. The headunit would have an AM/FM radio and a cassette or a compact disc player – the truly luxury cars would have both. A small LCD display screen would show…
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Saying good bye to my 1965 Ford F100 [Shift Happens]
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It’s been a good run with this one here. At the end of 2014, I purchased a 1965 Ford F100. The intent was to find a project truck that was drivable but that needed some love as well. I wanted to learn how to wrench, and this truck would be the one to help teach…
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Adventures in wrenching – Playing the odds
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Of the three cars that litter the space immediately surrounding my house, our 1995 Peugeot 306 is by far the easiest to work on. It’s massively less complicated than the Audi or the Rover – it has just the one camshaft, not two or four, and it actuates just two valves per cylinder, not five…
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I fixed the oil leak in my 1965 Ford F100
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We’ve come a ways with this truck. I bought it to learn a bit about wrenching, and I believe I’ve done that to some degree. Before owning this truck, I would only venture under the hood to check the oil or point at things and go “Yep, that’s the problem”. Now? I’ve helped swap a…
