Recent content by Tgator

Two solid nuggets of wisdom...and as RedHawk's dad found out the expensive way...still gotta check the dipstick on some regular interval. Even if your vehicle has never burned or leaked oil to date, stuff happens, & there's no guarantee of the "up to now" continuing. On the UOA note...I've...

I do rotations @ 5k and OCs @10k. The tire shop's "keep tires in treadwear warranty" schedule (& I guess the mfg's) is <=6k so I'm just keeping that alive...and they do it free as well, so very little time and $0 involved. I was going to say "actually, I've never noticed any out of whack wear...

I have no stats (sorry since that's what you asked for) - but 3-4 years ago we were car shopping for the kid, found a CR-V he liked, searched online for known issues...there were a quite large number of complaints, including IIRC on BITOG, about the then current CR-V series (2017+) where they'd...

My dad had a grey Buick...back sloped down, probably a late 40 something. I remember going to the garage, maybe to meet him when he came home from work. Not sure how I remember that, they later told me he traded that in before I was three. I guess it was for the yellow mid-50's Merc that I...

We have a '99 Altima, which according to the dealer has a chain. Had it since '01, now up to 157k...been very solid for us. Nice to not have that belt change expense hanging over your head, for sure, especially if you buy without knowing how recently it was last changed. 2004 Odyssey Syntec...

I can see both sides of this...on the one hand, performance certainly is the bottom line. But then...I don't want to do UOAs with every oil change, trying different oils to establish for myself what the relative levels of performance are. Not that that would necessarily be all that valid...

Originally Posted By: motor_oil_madman lol. Why doesn't that happen to me? ive had very bad luck with running equipment out of fuel for storage. I did some reading about this last year - seems like quite a few folks are now recommending adding stabilizer to the fuel and leaving the tank full...

Originally Posted By: infecto YMMV but I usually run my accord on 10k oci with whatever dino is on sale. Have you done any UOAs at that interval? Does your Accord have an OLM, or if not, what leads you to believe the various dinos are adequate out to 10k?

I was in Walmart yesterday (in Tulsa) and they had Syntec @ 5qt for $21 (rollback, not a sale) so if you don't mind supporting BP...that's not bad.

I bought an '04 a couple years ago, and the research I did at the time supported what tdpark says. If memory serves, they had the big tranny recall in late '03/early '04, so they would have had a handle on the fix from that point...and all the reliability data (consumer reports, various web...