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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • My center console has a squeak that drives me absolutely insane. But not insane to pull it apart - my car is old enough that I assume plastic studs and so forth will break if I try and things will just get worse.

    Around 30 years ago I had a 1990 Probe, and whenever work was done that meant the interior trunk panels had to be removed, I spent an hour the next weekend taking it all back apart and doing it right so it didn’t rattle. If you were fastidious about alignment it was quiet. If you were quick and sloppy it rattled and squeaked like crazy.

    (They were hard plastic panels held in with those plastic clips that look like nails with a center part that pushes in to expand them.)


  • I even sometimes push my automatic transmission car. Yes, it’s perfectly fine.

    Back in high school I used to sometimes push whatever shitty car of my dad’s I was driving out of parking spaces because I just could not get it into reverse.

    Would have been an MG Midget or a Renault R5 (“LeCar” to an American) because the only other manual transmission cars he had were a BiTurbo and a Chevy P30 and I definitely wasn’t driving either of those to high school band practice. I never drove the BiTurbo at all (that he knew of…)