Welcome.
Mandatory link, if you haven't heard of the "Great Jailbreak" and "TrailVoy," this link will give you some understanding on why those terms mean something around here.
http://gmtnation.com/f5/welcome-gmtnation-com-heres-story-226/ The Great Jailbreak is seen by the founding members as a break to freedom from the oppression of information exchange and a constant suffocation under the ridiculous amount of ads on screen, and TrailVoy is the place they came from to found this site.
Traveling back there once in a while to dig up old information is a necessary evil, but with how many ads they display I'm sure I'm slowly bankrupting them.
You'll notice we generally have only two. One banner up top, and one banner at the bottom, and that's the way it should be! Donation to the site is appreciated but not necessary for membership, and will not remove the ads which help cover the costs of running the site.
I'm sure you'll enjoy exploring, which I heartily suggest you do. You'll notice some "recurring themes" in the problem threads, like fan clutches going out, or an HVAC actuator taking a dump. It's spotting these kind of common problems that will give you a sixth sense, a mental radar so you know your vehicle and how it's functioning and can sometimes catch problems early enough not to be too much inconvenience, or before they cause any collateral damage. This is one of the secrets to that mystical 300k range.
If you do any modifications, or even any repair/replacement maintenance, let me tell you something about the community: we love pictures. It's not necessary, if you can't swing it or it's too much of a bother, don't worry about it. But I'm just putting that out there.... we love pictures of this kind of stuff.
And I'll put this information out now before the eventual question comes up: If you don't have an OBD-II scan tool, but you DO have an Android-based phone, consider getting Torque Pro. It seems to be very popular around here, it's $5 for the Pro edition of the app and $10-20 for a bluetooth ELM327 on eBay (just get on there and search for ELM327), pretty much any of them that are Bluetooth and ELM327 will work it seems. For $25 or so, with this setup you get the functionality of a $150+ scan tool at least, and I can promise you if you're looking to get 300k out of this having a scan tool's going to crop up more than once with how many things the modern PCM can detect these days.
And hopefully this short speech has distracted you long enough for you not to notice I've moved your thread to Member Introductions.
