Fluid Change - Oil/Transmission

Car is at 66k miles. Hasn't been driven very much at all, but will start using it more now.


Maintenance performed

1. Amsoil Signature Series 5w30 oil change
2. Amsoil Transmission Drain/Fill

Next oil change will also be draining the transmission fluid to eventually cycle the old fluid out.

Oil change

Oil change at

58,400 miles

Miami Return

Cruze has returned to our Miami home.

Slumber ends

It's been nearly a year, and the car is awoken for use again.

Performed an oil change, and will get some use out of it this year. I did state in my last post that I would switch over to Amsoil, however I did not drive enough to justify purchasing it.

This oil will only be used for a short duration and will be switching over to Amsoil in about 2k miles or so.

Oil change mark: 54k

Storage

Cruze will be in storage from Mid-May to Mid-August. Will be going to Miami for the summer, and the Cruze will be sleeping in the garage.

Car is on a CTEK battery tender to prolong battery life.

Oil Change

I haven't updated this blog very much. But I have been driving the Cruze and have had zero issues with it.

Performing it's scheduled oil change at: 51,747.

I'll be doing Mobil 1 for the last time, and then switching over to Amsoil signature series. I'll also be changing the transmission fluid next oil change as well, along with a tire rotation. Will see if I can squeeze 60k + miles out of these tires.

Fog lights installed

So I spent the weekend installing the fog lights. I say the weekend because I took many short/frequent breaks. The over all process took me about a bit under 5 hours due to having to run to Harbor Freight, locate tools that were miss-placed and such.

The process itself is a patients tester if you decide to install the fogs with the bumper on. The only snags I ran into was the electrical, and actually trying to get all the screws on to mount the fogs. If you have tiny hands, then this will be cake walk. Mine however, are not small. So this proved to  be a very difficult installation for me. Next time I'll likely just remove the bumper.

Result was worth it though. Here are a few pics of the process. ( I apologize, as this isn't really a write up, nor did I take as many pictures as I wanted. Was focused on trying to get the task done as quickly as possible )



First in order was removing the shield under the car. I must say, it really does it's job well because everything above it was very clean. Made sure to re-install it back on once I was finished.

 

I decided to to the electrical next which involved running the harness through our certain places of the car. The most difficult task here was plugging in the positive to the correct spot fuse box. They call it a "duck bill" connector. I probably spent a good hour trying to get it inside the fuse box.

 

Testing fitting

Powered on! ( Did I mention getting it connected to the fuse box was a PITA? )

  

At this point. It was pretty much putting everything back together. ( I forgot to plug the outside Temp Sensor, so I had to remove the shield again to plug it back in! )

 Finished results.