rock_minute
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I bought an 05 Jeep Liberty from a friend last week. It had been sitting in his driveway for a year and a half. The tires were busted, and there were a couple other maintenance things wrong. I needed a car ASAP, so I couldn't do the immediate work myself. I replaced the tires, and had my tire shop do an alignment, and fix a few other things that were wrong with it due to sitting for so long.
Now that it's registered and back in my driveway, and my long trip is over, I feel like I can start working on it myself. But being a new person to working on my car, I have a few questions:
1. A very small part of the headliner, by the driver side window, is starting to sag out from underneath that hard plastic. I tried to push it back in, but no good. Since it's just that small section (no more than 2, maybe 3 inches), can I just glue it back in place? The headliner will need to be replaced sooner or later, I know, but this is literally the only section that is sagging, and flaps in the wind when the windows are down, so a whole replacement isn't needed.
2. I did some searching on these forums. I'm assuming for anything sub-5-mph I leave overdrive off, right? Once I hit the highway I turn it on?
3. After two alignment checks, I still feel it pulling to the right when I let go the steering wheel. I'm assuming this is just the slant in the road, but I've never had a previous car put this much before. My friend told me about an area in our city where the roads are extremely flat. I'm going to go test is out there. But, what do you think? Should I get a second opinion, and not from my tire shop?
4. Before my second alignment to recorrect the pulling right issue (although it's still doing it), I SWEAR my car would slowly, and automatically, drive forward / backward while in Drive / Reverse when I let off the brake only (foot not on gas). I had thoroughly enjoyed this. But ever since the second alignment, it feels like it only happens sporadically now, and when it does, it feel SUPER slow in doing so. An alignment correction wouldn't tighten the brake calipers enough to stop this, would it?
5. Lastly, my friend completely broke off the driver side arm rest on the door (not the console, but the door). I looked online, and it looks ike I may need to buy a whole panel to replace it. But can I somehow glue it back on? Would it hold?
Thank you! I'm super excited to get working on this car. I have a friend teaching me how to do my own oil changes, etc, and some other mechanical work (though he's kinda new to this as well).
Now that it's registered and back in my driveway, and my long trip is over, I feel like I can start working on it myself. But being a new person to working on my car, I have a few questions:
1. A very small part of the headliner, by the driver side window, is starting to sag out from underneath that hard plastic. I tried to push it back in, but no good. Since it's just that small section (no more than 2, maybe 3 inches), can I just glue it back in place? The headliner will need to be replaced sooner or later, I know, but this is literally the only section that is sagging, and flaps in the wind when the windows are down, so a whole replacement isn't needed.
2. I did some searching on these forums. I'm assuming for anything sub-5-mph I leave overdrive off, right? Once I hit the highway I turn it on?
3. After two alignment checks, I still feel it pulling to the right when I let go the steering wheel. I'm assuming this is just the slant in the road, but I've never had a previous car put this much before. My friend told me about an area in our city where the roads are extremely flat. I'm going to go test is out there. But, what do you think? Should I get a second opinion, and not from my tire shop?
4. Before my second alignment to recorrect the pulling right issue (although it's still doing it), I SWEAR my car would slowly, and automatically, drive forward / backward while in Drive / Reverse when I let off the brake only (foot not on gas). I had thoroughly enjoyed this. But ever since the second alignment, it feels like it only happens sporadically now, and when it does, it feel SUPER slow in doing so. An alignment correction wouldn't tighten the brake calipers enough to stop this, would it?
5. Lastly, my friend completely broke off the driver side arm rest on the door (not the console, but the door). I looked online, and it looks ike I may need to buy a whole panel to replace it. But can I somehow glue it back on? Would it hold?
Thank you! I'm super excited to get working on this car. I have a friend teaching me how to do my own oil changes, etc, and some other mechanical work (though he's kinda new to this as well).