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The other day a family member was in the Starbucks drive-thru. The driver of the big Dodge truck in front of her decides that he doesn't want coffee, so he hastily backs up into her. This was the result: The perpetrator had Geico, which says that it'll be taken care of, but the car will...

This is the first UOA I've ever had done. First of all, the oil used was Maxlife dino and not synthetic, as is printed. I put "semi-synthetic" on the form, which probably confused Blackstone. Prior to the change the car had been driven on a 400-mile highway trip down to SC, where I drove...

Hey all, I recently decided to give a fuel system cleaner a try in my Corolla (1991 4AFE w/ 183k), to see if it would improve performance. The car has always hesitated a little on acceleration, so I decided to run a bottle of Techron in the engine, along with changing the fuel filter and...

Hello everyone, My sister owns a very weathered 1996 Camry with the 5SFE 4-cylinder engine. It leaks oil pretty significantly out through both the front and rear main seals, but consumption isn't horrible, maybe 1 quart every 1.5-2k miles. This weekend I inspected the brakes (not good either)...

Hello everyone, I know I haven't posted around here in a while. I've just been pretty busy with college stuff. Anyway, I decided to change the valve cover gasket on my 1991 Toyota Corolla sedan this weekend. It wasn't leaking, but one of the washers that holds the cover on was cracked and was...

I realize this topic has probably been brought up before, but I could not find it exactly for my car. The car is a 2004 Honda Civic EX with the VTEC engine, 48,200 miles. It has seen dino all of its life, with 3-5k OCIs. Lately I have used Castrol GTX 5W-20 and have had good results with it...