I just have to toot my own horn (pun intended) a bit cuz I just get no love on car websites. Must be the guuuuurl thing So my car is 12 years old and needed some work, unfortunately I'm on a shoelace budget for this kind of stuff so if it was going to get done I'd have to do it myself. I fixed my interior (the doors, side pieces and headliner). I fixed my broken locking mechanism in the drivers side door and replaced a bad mechanical part inside the door. Now my car alarm doesn't randomly go off (definite plus). I changed the serpentine belt and FINALLY fixed my cruise control. I had to remove the steering wheel to fix the cruise so I was a little afraid of the air bag blowing up in my face but I disconnected the battery and I didn't get any surprises. I fixed my hazy headlights by putting on new glass lenses and I replaced the yellowed turn signal markers on the sides with sparkly new ones. I also bought a little nose cover bra for the hood (its dinged up bad and can afford to fix it too) so it shouldn't get any worse now. I fixed the hatch latch which was rusting out and put rustoleum on the inside of the hatch lid to keep it from rusting out too. I took out the old stereo and put in a new updated one and took out all the old sirrius radio junk that was in there before and removed the old CD changer. I put the stereo and control panel area on the dash back to its original state. I did have someone professionally uninstall the remote start because it was part of the reason my cruise would not work and I know nothing about alarm systems. My car is a manual so it isn't even legal to have remote start on my car. I don't even know how that ever happened I got most of the the parts from a junkyard so I kept my cost down by doing that. I removed the air intake from the top of the engine, cleaned it and fixed several vacuum lines that were cracked and leaking. I replaced the old air filter with a high quality washable one (pretty eco friendly I thought) and put in a new cabin air filter so now my AC doesn't smell like butt! I opened the cabin filter back up again a sprayed Ozium in the vents while the blower was on, that works amazingly well. Stink is gone! I gave the car a tune up with new spark plugs, spark plug wires and coils. All of that and I did add my Yak Rack but it's been on there for a while. I think that is about it. Ahhhhhhhh. Finally done.

After all the 'fixes' I went from 27 MPG to 32 in town! THAT makes me happiest of all!