We have factory-installed tire pressure monitors in the RAV4. I believe these are government mandated after the whole Firestone debacle. Anyway, these things are probably useful primarily to people who can't recognize low pressure driving dynamics, and who don't check their tire pressure regularly. But it turns out it's useful...
I'm taking the Toyota in for its 20,000 mile service this morning. We've had this car since January 2006 so that means we've only been putting about 7200 miles on it each year—which is a little more than half the typical reckoning of 12,000 miles each year....
Driving down to SeaTac on Friday, we got a rock to the windshield. This sucks. At nearly an inch in diameter, I think it's far too large to repair....
Ask me how I know to make sure the lid is well-attached to the oatmeal container before leaving it in the back of the car....
Because this is turning out to be a fairly busy week, I'm going to make another photo minipost. Here's the first picture we've taken of the RAV4—this is in a parking at the Woodland Park Zoo, which we visited on Sunday. The RAV4 is in the foreground—the car in the...
Why do I say this? Well, she just bought another car. It's not the car pictured at right, although I did pull that one off of the web for, you know, humorous effect. Did it work? No? It's actually a 2006 Toyota RAV4, pictured below—I actually pulled the below photo...
