Recent content by BJD2020

I still have an old external Western digital 1 terabyte hard drive from 07 Iraq deployment, that has a massive collection of MP3. There was something called the "Traveling Terabyte" that was available for soldiers to download for free, litterally tens of thousands of songs from every genre...

Hercules tires, manufactured in the US by Cooper. Mastercraft tires, also made by Cooper Douglas tires, made for Wall Mart and manufactured by Goodyear. Multi Mile tires which was Sumitomo . Have used all 4 of those over the decades without issue in all weather and road conditions.

Ok, if you say so, I don't know if its a good thing or not, never heard of TUV testing or Ceratech. I have never used extra additives in oil or fuel and will take a hard pass on this one as well. But to each their own .

that is the best deterrent, none of these young punks have ever driven a manual anything before, sadly very ,very few vehicles today come with manual transmissions anymore. expensive sport cars likely the exception. I learned to drive on a 3 on the tree and 4 on the floor vehicles. that was back...

Windows Defender with a Brave browser as main, with startpage search engine. Back up browser is Firefox with startpage search engine I also do a malwarebytes scan (free version) about every -2-3 months. I guess by default Win 11 has Edge browser, but we never use it and cant get rid of it or...

when my dad died back in 2009 he had a whole box full of old JC Whitney catalogs, looking back I wish I would have kept 1 or 2 but ended up tossing the whole box.He probably had 15 of them at least.

The last paragraph says all one needs to know about after market additives and snake oil. https://www.machinerylubrication.com/Read/29610/aftermarket-oil-additives

I have used them in our Forester and Sonata, they look and fit exactly the same as Wix or Napa or Fram and usually about $2-$3 less. Like the old Suave soap commercials used to say "if you cant tell the difference, why pay the difference?"

I have had zero issues with just using "Peak All makes" or "Super Tech all makes & models." Both about the same price point. ALL means "ALL" so no issues there.

I take used oil and filters to NAPA, they do have a 4 gallon limit per day for used oil, I have never came close to that much. one time NAPA's oil tank was full, so i went to a Walmart they take oil also, but at Walmart they have you sign in with name and how much oil you are dropping off. Napa...

Growing up in the 60's and 70's i very much recall my dad and grandpa using CO OP oil.. later changed the name to Cenex. It was easy to find and i suppose cost a bit less than the name brands . In rural areas and I grew up in a rural area in ND CO-OPs were in most small towns.

lucas oil gear spinner toy is only good for killing time while waiting in line at the auto parts store. No one should put that sticky swill in an actual engine.

at my age 63, a drive of 350 to 400 miles is about my daily limit for the day. at that point I am looking for a hotel for the night . I dont enjoy hurried trips. I drive and stop when i feel like it, usually every 2 to 3 hours. sciatia does not let me go much farther without getting out for a...

it isn't, modern engine oil has all the additives an engine needs. no owner manual on any vehicles i have ever owned recommended oil additives. in fact they often warn against using additives.

the last cabin filter I got for my sonata was a purolator and out of the box it had no arrow .. not sure why. in the past they always had a arrow.. but this one did not .. but the pleats are the pleats on that filter so it does not matter one way or the other.. now on our forester there is a...