How far are you willing to travel? I live in Southern California, which isn’t very close to WA, but there’s a red manual 2011 Kizashi on sale down here lol. It’s the only manual Kizashi listed on CarGurus (where I found my 2013 GTS Sport CVT Kizashi) that has a manual transmission in the western US....

Pep Boys seems to sell individual spark plugs for pretty cheap (there’s an occasional discount on many items when you buy online and pick up in store) so I may go that route. Hopefully they have the kind KuroNekko mentioned. So turns out they do and they’re $6 a pop with the online 20%-off parts &a...

Here’s a video of the spark plug replacement process. It seems pretty straightforward and quick; how long does it take you guys to do all four? I’m a little over 61k miles and earlier tonight the ignition took way too long to happen. I almost thought it wouldn’t work. My first suspect was the batter...

Thanks for the tip, KuroNekko. There aren’t too many junkyards around me but I’ll keep up the search online. It’s a little difficult trying to find the glove box tray though since at best most places only list the glove box itself. I think the Santa Ana location is shared with a place called Tom’s T...

Sent you a PM.

Do you know what car you’ll have next?

I got a recall notice "postcard" in the mail the other day. Looks like Suzuki is taking this seriously. For a while, I was wondering if I had the original recall work done, how necessary this new one was. It addresses flaws in the first recall solution which apparently made the canister v...