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Originally Posted By: ram_man How accurate could one be with a bubble balancer? Nowhere even remotely close to as good as a 20 year old motorized wheel balancer. Originally Posted By: JHZR2 Prep is key. This I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen stick on weights come off...

I've always been impressed with how light and clear chevron conventional oils pour out of the bottle compared to others, even full syn oils. Otherwise yes, oil gets dirty by using it. Color isn't an indication of condition necessarily however. An engine that gets routine changes with quality...

Yeah Amazon for the win if you have prime and your local WM is lame. There's 4 WM stores within a reasonable distance to me. They all have totally different stock when it comes to oil and filters. For instance one store has 5w30 magnatec all day every day, the other 3 do not have any...

Originally Posted By: Dorian One year a family member accidentally used pledge instead of Pam on the Turkey. Believe it or not, it was the best Turkey I have ever had. Everyone wondered what we had done differently! Pledge is ok but only the lemon one. Much prefer pine sol I smoke my...

It isn't milk, run it. Your engine won't know the difference.

Dexteros are solid. Bought a used truck years ago with a brand new set, I would have never bought them personally, but they turned out to be a great tire. Sold the truck 60 something thousand miles later and they still had good tread remaining.

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Check the wife's car weekly, since the newer Foresters like hers tend to burn oil. Even with 77k miles on hers, it still uses less than a qt per 7k interval, but it has me paranoid. My other vehicles only get checked a few times a year because they accumulate only a few k miles yearly if that...

I go by miles. On modern vehicles that get driven regularly in normal city/hwy conditions, usually 30k miles. My severe service (short trip/infrequent/harsh use) vehicles get the same mileage based replacement intervals but 10 or 15k miles. The Harley and old hot rod truck are visual based...

Originally Posted By: SilverFusion2010 M1 15w-50 has HTHS of 4.5 https://www.mobil.com/English-US/Passenger-Vehicle-Lube/pds/NAUSMobil-1-15W50 And it's A3/B3 rated. PDS also says it's ok for diesel but only mentions CF?

You already have a really great oil on hand, you might as well use it.

Sale loyal for sure these days, but I gravitate towards shell, castrol, and chevron products in particular.

It's not going to kill your cats in two years.

It helps him?

Cross off everything European unless it's a lease. Cross off every new diesel because of all the emissions components. Cross off anything made by Chrysler. Cross off Auto stop/start that can't be disabled. CVT trans has come a long way, they're much better now. I'm not a huge fan of DI...