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As a former owner of an Odyssey, I can almost guarentee you it is the rotors. What is commonly referred to as “warped rotors” is almost certainly “uneven pad transfer.” That oocurs when brake pads exceed their design limit for temps and pad material “melts” onto the rotors. Sometimes you can...

How do you plan to use the car?

My 2015 Kia Soul 2.0 used 1-1.5 quarts every 5k miles. I did all the recalls and TSBs. I changed the pcv but the OEM was perfectly clean and working. I ran good oil and Rislone oil treatment to clean up the rings and used 5W30 full synthetic. In the end, I think it is just the low tension piston...

I just sold my 2002 AP1. I ran 0W40 Amsoil SS in mine With OEM Honda filter. Given your mileage I would check the valve guides. Really no other areas to worry about.

Did you read his post? He said he didn’t know what was used before they owned it.

I can almost guarantee you that is because of valve stem seals in that engine. HM oils can really help with sealing some gasket leaks and cleaning up sticky piston rings over time, but don’t seem to help at all with valve stem seals. I have great luck with Maxlife HM on several other vehicles. I...

This, absolutely this. This is a great value oil.

Go 225/70 and use BFG Radial T/As. Blackwall out or white letters out, your choice.

This is the way

We have a 2015 Mazda 6 and it has been trouble free. It was a CPO from the dealer with 30k on it when we bought it. It now has 92k miles. I run 5W-30 at 10k mile intervals here in San Antonio, Texas. Your choices are great, but once the 5W20 is used up, I would switch to your favorite 5W30 Full...

Cars with McPherson strut suspensions don’t have adjustable caster. You likely have something bent on that side. Was it in an accident? Big pothole or curb hit? Does anyone else but you drive it? The alignment tech is saying he can’t get it into spec as it isn’t adjustable via normal means.

we have a 2010 Civic 1.8. If I had a minor leak, I would run Valvoline Max-Life 5W-30. If you really want to run 0W-20, pick any fulll synthetic like Supertech, Valvoline, Quaker State, etc.

I use QSUD 5W-30 in my son’s Kia Soul 2.0L here in hot San Antonio. I am doing 5k intervals and it uses about a quart over that interval. Some have had excessive oil consumption, but ours has been reasonable. We check the level every other week to be sure. It has about 85K miles on it now. I...

Good report. If this was my truck, I would use Amsoil or Redline 5W40 or 0W40 given you are running it hard.

I would use the Subaru OEM filter. Is yours a turbo or normally aspirated? If turbo, are you aware of the oil screen clogging issue with these? Subaru reduced and backdated the oil change intervals on the turbo EJs due to clogging. Given you don’t know the oil change history, you might have a...