My name is Joel Carew. If it's the least bit automotive, I video it! I love pretty much all cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc. as can be seen on my channel in the compilations, vlogs and after movies I make.
I have a 2010 2SS manual coupe, and it was garage kept for years at a time. I’ve had stuff like the power steering pump and clutch master cylinder go out 2-3 times already, all OEM parts. The power steering pump issue, I figured, was mostly from drifting and hooning with the wheel locked, so I really had to adjust my driving style. That, or I would be throwing $900+ at a Lingenfelter racing power steering pump, or at least $5-600+ on a Turn One power steering pump. Crazy stuff. Aside from that, the clutch master cylinder failure absolutely blows. You end up getting stranded and having to get the car towed. If you know how to work on a car, at least you can do process of elimination and see if just the CMC alone was bad; which in my case, I’m still lucky it was just that and not my clutch slave cylinder (CSC), which is also on borrowed time. The Tremec TR-6060 is also a great transmission, but the ones pre-2012 have the non-hybrid synchronizers and blockers. Aside from that, you typically need to upgrade to stuff like brass shift fork pads, to really get the most durability out of the transmission. I figured the 2013 models were the best, if you wanted to keep the 10-13 pre-facelift body style. It comes with all the 14-15 goodies, like electric power steering, and a MyLink infotainment head unit, which has a backup camera (with optional parking sensors, I think?).
Ive had mine for 10 years and I drove it to Connecticut from San Diego, CA in 2021 with no issues. I had a jeep but this car outlived it. I used to talk about this car like you do in this video but it has honestly been one if the best cars ive owned. The door handles will break by the way lol!
Nice review. It's been a year. Still have it/like it? Have you had any problems staying connected to the app? I'm trying to figure out what advantages there would be having CarPlay with an iPhone. So far, it seems like this unit would do all I need it to do. Thoughts?
I do have it and I do like it but I think I'm about to sell it because I'm just getting annoyed with installing it in every new car I get plus I think I want Android Auto eventually. I've noticed that there are times where I'll start my car and the app doesn't open but Bluetooth still plays it's such a weird glitch but the way I make it work is randomly open the app when I'm not in the car because I guess that's sometimes what it needs after an update? I have also used an Android Auto / Apple CarPlay unit that was wired and it was so seamless and made driving so much easier and safer. Literally just plug your phone in to the unit with your charger and you have instant access to important apps on your phone on a huge screen
@@DailyDrivenProjects Thank you. That's interesting information. The app glitch would probably annoy me too. When you say the CarPlay unit had a huge screen, do you mean one of those 9" floating screens? Or something that came with the car? I ask that question because I bought an Alpine iLX-W650 with CarPlay, but I notice that my iPhone 11 (the biggest model) has a screen that is the same size as the Alpine, but the iPhone has a much sharper picture. So I started wondering, maybe I should have bought the much cheaper Pioneer that you have and just used my iPhone for my screen. Also, it's kind of cool to not have to plug/unplug every time, isn't it?
In that case, yes just get the much cheaper pioneer (was $150 a year ago), but I have a Google Pixel 5 so that standard size screen (forgot what Amazon brand but similar size to your Alpine) was quite the upgrade for me personally People say my Pixel looks like an iPod touch 🤣
@@DailyDrivenProjects Hey, I was using an iPhone 5 with a 4" display until a short time ago when my boss got mad because I kept dropping connections and bought me a new phone, lol. Worked out for me! Thanks for the information. I might be bothering you again if I think of another question.
I believe whatever metra harness crutchfield.com recommended for my 2005 Chevy Cobalt, based on what my car was equipped with from factory. It's been so long I forgot the name
It's comments like this that make my day. Sorry I've lost the time and hope to post. I'll get back to it eventually. Make sure to give the original owners credit tho
Posted the link to my Video… not my Chanel! If you guys like this video. Subscribe to my channel. I was literally over half of this entire video. The “RU-vidr” who created this video used my footage without my permission. Which is okay! Hopefully he learns to add the OWNER’s ORIGINAL link :) ❤️ y’all sub to my channel especially if you want more 2.4 Ecotec content!
Pretty sure we talked about this on my old ig account you were on board and anyway from your video people can click on your channel. I'm all about promoting the people I borrowed from dw I give you full credit, you're the one with the sick car after all, not me
My co-worker has a 2002 Ford Explorer with 379,000 miles. He bought it brand new. Original engine, but he did put a brand new transmission in it at one point. He said that thing is like a tank and built to last, unlike these new vehicles.
Mine spun a bearing or something of that nature. These trucks are so hit or miss it seems but it probably doesn't help that I wasn't afraid to full send 😆 I've since bought an S10 ZR2
You should redo this video because you have the music playing at the same time while you're explaining how to install the radio it's kind of hard to understand what you're saying, and I really needed to see this video because I have the same car that you do bro
