Preparing for winter or MOT again! — Toyota Caldina, 2.0 liter, 1997

Hello again!
Outside, it gradually became colder and occasionally throwing snow. In general, such weather is not typical for our region. Almost until the end of November, the thermometer needle hardly dropped below -10 -15 degrees and the earth was clean. Who is happy, who is vice versa. Usually, earlier, from the beginning of November, the temperature did not rise above the designated mark.

Therefore, I decided to prepare for the winter more thoroughly, because. I heard that the winter will be cold and fierce. And I would not want to dance with a tambourine around a frozen car.

The following have been replaced:
1) Fine fuel filter (Korea),
2) Liqui Moly AA SM 5w-30 engine oil,
3) Oil filter (Toyota original),
4) Spark plugs. Here, it should be noted, opinions were divided on this matter and I decided to try it on my own skin. Chose Denso Iridium Power IK20. And here's a little story:

... when driving in the boost zone, a blunt appeared. "I bought a pancake on my head" — flashed through my mind. Traveled so a few days, got it! I unscrewed the candles and found two breakdowns of the candle of the second cylinder. Opachki! Silent bewilderment ... What to do, I temporarily screwed in the old NGK platinum candles, but before that I played it safe and changed the coil, since they remained from the dead motor. I had to buy another Denso candle and now, like (ugh x 3), everything is in order with traction.

Out of the standings for winterization:
In the summer I began to notice that the rear right brake caliper was wedging. Finally got to his soul, replaced. When driving, I began to pay attention that the roll-over has decreased several times, the car goes through some kind of resistance, there are no kickbacks when starting from the hills / hills when the brake pedal is released. After trips, it stank of burning in the area of ​​u200bu200bthe rear right wheel. At first he convinced himself that he was wondering. But about a week has passed and … the pad squeaker met with the brake disc!
Hello service! … blah
Bought the original pads the next day and wanted to change with a friend themselves in the garage. It was not there, it turned out the piston was tightly jammed (already on the contract caliper). In general, anyway, blah, service, blah ...

Caliper bulkhead and new pads — we roll well, nothing wedges, does not stink, etc., HAPPINESS IPONA MOTHER! =)

A Fujitsubo rear end can was also welded on. Naturally Japanese, because I do not accept any collective-farm Prosports with their crackling-noisy sound in principle. The reason was the annoyance of the "farting native sound") ) ) Now it's nice to bass and it's more pleasant to the eye. Happiness 2 =) ) )