Recent content by RW1

Congratulations! I've been retired for 4 years now and don't regret it at all. From this point on, "Every day is Saturday!"

Owners manual recommends changing at 100K. I took my Tundra to the dealership and had them do it at 80K. Early but they had a service special at a very good price. In the big scheme of things, it's cheap. Do it!

Good chance they were doing it to capture your CC information. They just harvest a bunch of CC info and disappear. It's then sold on the dark web. Watch your CC. You might start seeing some $1 charges from random locations.

What? Do you think I told the dealership to use cheap plugs? It's not relevant but my daughter was in town for 6 hours. I was able to get her car in for the 100K service. There was no way I could figure out what needed to be done, round up the parts, do it in 6 hours and spend time with my...

Sorry if I wasn't clear. The UOA was done on the previous oil change. It was this latest oil change that was sooty smelling and very black. I have never seen that in her car before. Oil filter is the Fram XG3614. My thought about the plugs is that if the dealership used the cheap $3 plugs...

Hi Guys, just wanted to bounce some thoughts. I haven't seriously worked on cars for decades so I know I'm missing something. Daughters 2007 Ford Focus with the 2.0L gas engine. It currently has 156K miles on it. She lives in another state and visits 2X a year. While she's here, I have been...

Gift from youngest daughter. And, yes, I do change everyone's oil. It's one way of making them visit.

Originally Posted by chemman Not sure why Netgear would tell you that they give firmware updates to Comcast for a modem you own. But, I googled "Netgear 6300 firmware" and come up with this page...

JustinH, thanks, that was the first thing I thought of. But on the Netgear 6300, I cannot update on my own. The update has to be pushed by Comcast. Netgear said they give the updates to Comcast, they tweak it to their system and then push it out.

Thanks. I went in and found the signal strength. Did a screen shot and now waiting for the next failure.

Thanks for the reply. I'm in a suburban residential area. Our cable line is above ground and runs to our house from a wooden pole on the street.

Not that computer savy so looking for your thoughts on internet dropoffs. I live south of Tacoma and have Comcast internet and TV. It seems lately I have been having internet outages that have been lasting from 10 minutes to an hour. Perhaps once every two or three days for the last 3 months...

I use an auto maintenance app that tracks my MPG. My Tundra with the 5.7L engine was averaging 14 mpg during the winter and 15 mpg during the summer. That is, until I hit 50K miles. It started to increase from there and now I'm averaging 17-19 mpg year round.

Completely agree! When I first got my APAP machine, I struggled with it. I would often wake up and take the mask off. But I gradually got used to it within a few weeks. One night I went to bed with the mask on and slept thru the night. Now I can't sleep without it. The wife is very happy...

I started going back to theaters a couple years ago and noticed the volume was really up. I asked the manager and he said it was to discourage people from talking on their cell phones during the movie. Whether true or not, I did notice that no one was chatting away on their phone. I did...