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Sometime tomorrow I'm gonna do an oil change, rotate tires, and replace rear pads and rotors to see if I can rid the truck of my braking shake I get. Same thing happened in my other truck and that fixed it. New wheels and tires will be on order sometime this week, then it's going into the body shop to get the damage repaired from hitting two deer, get some paint touched up, couple dings repaired and my windshield replaced.

 

Also need to clay bar, compound, and wax it. Maybe body shop will do that for me lol

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Sometime tomorrow I'm gonna do an oil change, rotate tires, and replace rear pads and rotors to see if I can rid the truck of my braking shake I get. Same thing happened in my other truck and that fixed it. New wheels and tires will be on order sometime this week, then it's going into the body shop to get the damage repaired from hitting two deer, get some paint touched up, couple dings repaired and my windshield replaced.

 

Also need to clay bar, compound, and wax it. Maybe body shop will do that for me lol

You dont have good luck with trucks.
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Looks more like congrats Ford, two of their POS are on there. And I know I own one of them… I stupidly traded my very reliable 2014 Silverado, for what was suppose to be an economical 2015 Escape… It just the same MPG as the Silverado does and it's got the gas tank the same size of an 80 year old woman on a road trips bladder (gotta pull over every 400kms to fill up)…

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Fixed some damage from my garage door incident

 

Before

 

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After

 

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Ryan

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Reviewed my gas data for 2015

 

Total gallons: 1032

E85 Gallons: 1028

 

Total Miles 10,551

Avg MPG: 10

 

Avg Cost of E85: $1.89

 

Today filled up 19 gallons for $31. Not bad

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I never keep track of that stuff. Way too painful to see on paper ...

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I'm too lazy to total all that up. I log all my fill ups and repairs in a ledger. Once I even started to put it in Excel and then got bored after about 2 months worth I think. I know there are apps out there but still haven't gotten around to using those as then I'd have my written copy and digital. I'm pretty sure I used more than 1028 gallons doing a rough guess at 20 gallons for 52 weeks.

 

 

What's really painful is when you find your logs from 10+ years ago and see the prices you paid in high school.

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I'm too lazy to total all that up. I log all my fill ups and repairs in a ledger. Once I even started to put it in Excel and then got bored after about 2 months worth I think. I know there are apps out there but still haven't gotten around to using those as then I'd have my written copy and digital. I'm pretty sure I used more than 1028 gallons doing a rough guess at 20 gallons for 52 weeks.

Fuel log is a great one to use on Android
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Can you do multiple vehicles?

Dont know. I only have 1.

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Well as soon as I sell my '06 I'll have only one. I guess I don't have to log that one into the app. Just start doing the '09 instead then I could really see the cost of diesel.

 

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Reading the description in play store says multiple vehicles. I probably should have just done that to start. Maybe if I use it enough I'll just use my free credits on my google account and get the pro version.

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