This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.
Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.
If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service
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Update on the project car:
Things have gone relatively well with it. The rear bumper/taillight had more damage hiding under the plastic than I expected but I was able to accomplish a 7-8/10 result for the cost of a $50 taillight and some time with a hammer. It's not perfect and not even good if you look closely at it but an untrained eye has to look for it so good enough and getting a perfect result would require a real body shop/far more money than is worth to me. I also got the last of the mud out. The car cleans up nice.
I replaced the front brakes, replaced the two bad tires, and got a four-wheel alignment. The car drives like a dream now and the suspension appears to be sound.
I have the part for the touchscreen but it isn't acting up so it's a low-priority item that I'll get to whenever I have time or it acts up (in which case I'll make time). I did replace the headlights because one of the LEDs died and I'm not a fan of blinding oncoming drivers.
The muffler is another low-priority item. The squeaking is annoying but a new replacement is expensive and reasonably-priced used options haven't popped up near me. I'll sit on it and either a local option will show up or I'll make time to drive however many miles round trip. In the meantime the car runs fine.
I have decided to keep the newer car and sell my old daily driver, the ricerboy Honda. That car is more fun to drive, but not that much more fun and I've had most if not all the amusement I'm going to get out of it, and it'll be easier to sell while being more expensive to keep. I have to put a fuel pump in it but that's a job that's more annoying (have to remove the back seat) than hard.
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