Recent content by Elkins45

I didn’t really need any more 0w-20 but I bought four jugs. It’s a lot less painful to do six month changes at this price.

My friend the builder says he prefers pex. Our house is around 25yo and is cpvc. I know it was sure convenient to work with when I had to replace our water heater. I’m planning on adding another hose bib this summer and I’m going to use cpvc to make the connections.

That makes sense if Valvoline is the actual seller since they are headquartered in Kentucky.

Sold by Valvoline themselves!

I know. No offense taken. My reply was in jest as well. I just don’t use 😀 very often although I probably should.

Says a guy with 16k+ posts on an oil forum over 16 years. Pot, meet kettle.

So is that bead sealer in a can, but don’t get it on your clothes if you ever want to wear them in public again.

I’m perpetually shopping. So far I’ve only bought a few. At the peak of my pocket knife collecting phase I was probably buying and selling 100 knives a year. I would buy one just to see if I liked it, sell the ones I didn’t, and keep the very few that really appealed to me. I’m planning on...

Wow, that’s a lot of psychoanalysis there, Dr. Freud! I just wanted to know how far people were willing to go for a mundane car. That’s why I took the vehicle out of the equation. Sometimes a banana is just a banana.

Don’t you have a lot of road salt in MD?

Hawaii is the only state I haven’t visited. Maybe I could rent a ferry from UHaul to bring it home? 😀

It’s a five hour drive for me. I’ll need to see a photo of the underside with it on a rack before I decide to go. Rocker rust doesn’t bother me but structural rot is (obviously) a deal breaker.

This is the one I really want but it’s a good 10 hours away and at least $1000 overpriced. https://www.jnmautogroup.com/details/used-2013-mazda-mazda5/101802553 Before I made the drive I would ask for a photo of the underside with it on a rack.

https://smartpath.pagetoyota.com/inventory/details?dealerCd=21039&vin=JM1CR293180321200&source=t3&zipcode=48033&type=used

You guessed it. It’s a manual Mazda 5.