Recent content by Octane

I would do Pennzoil/Valvoline/Castrol GTX at 3,000/3 months personally.

Wow...I can't even say C-R-A-P?

Canadian Tire is a big retail store in Canada. It's like a less-corrupt Wal Mart with more focus on tools and automotive, but they sell everything. Yeah, the Coby is garbage...my neighbour got one, ----. I really like the Sandisk Sansa products. I've had a few of their mp3 players and they've...

+1 Cost of seal/gasket < cost of engine.

How about the fuel you burn + wear and tear on your vehicle driving to Tim Hortons/going through the drive-thru...and you're concerned about a penny?

A more logical thing to do would be to automatically donate any pennies that someone would normally get in their change to a charity of sorts. If anybody makes a big fuss out of it, then the store can keep some pennies on hand and give them to the customer. All it is is a waste of metal.

Exactly. If all drivers grew up driving vehicles like this, there wouldn't be so many horrible drivers on the roads. JHZR2 has a good point in regards to understanding of math and science having a lot to do with it, but the key issue here is COMMON SENSE (or the lack thereof). The first vehicle...

While I completely agree, you are ALWAYS going to have those people who complain about being shorted (a maximum of) four cents in their change. In Canada we have coins for $0.01, $0.05, $0.10, $0.25, $1.00 and $2.00...our smallest bill is $5.00, it's a bit ridiculous.

You contradicted yourself a little bit here. You said driver aids are no detriment to any driver, then you said that people drive the vehicle with no awareness of what these things do. If you ask me, not knowing a driver aid is there/not knowing exactly what it does is a lot more dangerous than...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j-3xIZK-Bk

I appreciate it, but I'm not corrupt enough to run for president. Besides, I live in Canada...it'd be Prime Minister

Drivers have gotten progressively worse over the years because the vehicles they are driving have gotten progressively "smarter". Things like automatic transmissions, traction control, stability control, anti-lock brakes, and even AWD etc. have made it that the car is smart, so the driver...

Why not change your oil daily instead?

I am going to be in Las Vegas twice and Florida three times this winter. With the dollar now worth more than the dollar, I want to buy a dozen or so K&N HP-2005 oil filters while I'm down there as they cost $15 a pop + tax here! What are some of the chain stores that sell K&N and where can I...

iPod's are overpriced dumpster food...kinda like FRAM oil filters. Pretty on the outside, but the internals aren't so lucky.