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Good for you that you got so many parts off of it. I saw it and actually thought that you should have taken the parts of the Red you bought from me and put it on that car, but it still worked out and two Reattas made one nice one. On another front it was a real non Reatta week for me as my youngest daughter asked me to do an oil change and while doing that I told her she needed an alignment and new tires. As luck would have it I found a set of Michelins that were the correct size and only one month old. Less then 1/2 price of new and off to Firestone for an alignment. The work was done and they told her she needed brakes so that project looks to be next week. Then my neighbor comes over and says the serpentine belt is squealing on his son's 2003 Pontiac Sunfire. I went to get a belt and thought I was all set. Got the car in the air took off the driver's side wheel and plastic shrouds and saw that the tensioner had come loose. 3o minutes later tensioner is tightened down and shrouds and wheel back on and all is good. Dave's Garage is now closed for the weekend. Dave's Detail Shop opens tomorrow for a wash, wax, and inside cleaning of the Black. Hope no one distracts me...

New photo of the same tree I posted earlier at a different angle.

Ron's Garage has been open for my daughter this week too. I recently replaced the front brakes and rotors on my daughter's Camry and the front driver side soon started squeaking when she would come to a stop. This week I pulled the caliper back off and could find nothing wrong. I decided to put the old backing plates from the old pads on the new pads to see if that would help. The plates are thin sheet metal plates that clip on the back of the pads to help prevent squealing. That fixed that problem. Thursday she had new tires installed and that caused the "Tire Pressure Monitoring System" light to start flashing and then stayed on solid. All the tire pressures were good at 35 psi but for some reason the light came on. I was going to take it back to the tire store yesterday to have it checked thinking they had done something wrong when mounting the tires but overnight the light went off all by itself and wouldn't come back on. I guess it reset itself or something after sitting overnight. Then today she calls me from Knoxville, 30 miles away, and tells me the light is back on. I told her to check the air pressure to be on the safe side and when she did the right front was down 10 pounds lower than the other three tires at 25 psi. That would trigger the low tire pressure light to come on as it should. She aired the tire up at a gas station and slowly drove it home. I took the wheel off and checked the tire carefully for a nail or something in the tire and found nothing. I covered it with soapy water on the tread, valve stem and around the bead. No leak showed up. I guess it will have to go to the tire shop on Monday where they have a tub of water to submerge the tire in to see if it has a leak. I couldn't find a leak myself but I assume it has one even though the tire pressure didn't drop any as she drove home from Knoxville. I'm leery of her driving it until I know for certain there isn't a leak in the tire.

Any windows device will work, I just find an 8" tablet easiest to fasten to the dash.