Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

Dang German bolts! I will have to look it up, but I bet it was over 300,000 miles ago I had to get rid of the factory delivered air shocks on my El Camino because they were crappy. The kept leaking. The real solution was to go to air bags for the load leveling, and then use Bilstien shocks. Anything else felt like a Pogo stick bouncy bouncy.

After over 300K miles one of the shock's integral mount bolts gave up and snapped. I heard a large clunk, but the Elky drove OK.

So I just removed that shock for now to prevent more clunking. I have a new pair of rear Biistien shocks on the way. Likely Monday or Tuesday delivery.

It is not bad, put the car on the scissor lift, remove the tire, and two top bolts, and one large lower bolt. Getting to old one off was a bit of a pin as it had many many miles of dirt and crud on the bolt heads, and the nuts on top. $220 for a pair of Bilstien shocks is not horrible. If they last another 300K miles it will not be me replacing them.

The shocks are fine, just that one broken lower bolt gave up.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by HHI944

I'm not sure how viable geothermal is here. Mini splits have gotten really popular. My house is small and very old, but the last owners insulated it really well and replaced the windows with Pella double pane. It has been a rough month temperature wise but, I'm keeping it very comfortable inside and I'm on track for a ~$120 power bill.

Yup, hence the "If ground temps allow"

Our installer said it would cost less than 50 for the AC to run the summer.