Recent content by TmanP

Some GMs (my old Lacrosse, for one) base this on a floating average MPG (which seemed to be somewhere in the rough ballpark of a hundred miles or so). That had the funny effect of the distance to empty rising significantly when leaving town for a highway trip with a full tank. If I'd mostly...

Nice, will probably be picking up another set of these (my third) in the next year or two. The last set lasted almost 70k and still had plenty of tread, but I got a good deal at Sam's going into the winter, so replaced them. The current set has 45k or so on them and is wearing well. They're...

Are you using a high mileage oil already? My first step would be to try something like Maxlife.

No way I'd pay even close to 50c a gallon more for TT, though ours is generally within a nickel or so. In much of the Midwest, our TT conundrum is more an issue of availability - for TT brands in town, we essentially just have QT and the odd Shell/Phillips 66/Cenex, plus Costco. Chevron is...

I've run cartridge Toyota OEM filters for nearly 200k on the Camry, typically on ~ 10k mile runs. I have no reason to think that the OEM filters aren't up to the task of the recommended interval.

At least for gas, I generally feel better about buying from a high-volume station. The only tank of "bad" gas that I think I've ever purchased came from a higher-end brand known for its high-quality fuel, but it wasn't a busy location. Since then, I've tried to buy from busy stations, and this...

Minnesota only allows non-ethanol gas to be sold in Premium (91) flavor, not lower grades like other states, so tons of people run that in their small engines of all sorts - boats, snowblowers, mowers, etc. Interestingly, they prohibit running it in cars that aren't "collector cars" per a...

I wasn't really clear - I do change my own air/cabin filters and think that's totally on the level to do in a parking lot wherever. I've done bulbs, wipers, batteries, etc. in similar situations (and have also done spark plugs/coolant/etc., when I have had a suitable space to do that sort of...

Updating that I just saw them on the Top Tier list. They've been making a huge deal out of TT recently, even listing it instead of "Regular" or "Unleaded" on the price sign, which I've never seen another brand do, like so: (Low quality pic since it's a Streetview screenshot.) It's another...

There's a pretty common (around here) homemade variation (restaurant knockoff) that uses Crescent roll dough to make a casserole, on top and bottom of a filling. It works pretty well for how easy it is.

Looks delicious! We have lots of Runza restaurants that make the sandwich (among other things) here in Nebraska, but they stay pretty tight to the state line - there's a couple in Iowa, Colorado and Kansas, I believe, plus one just north of the state line in Yankton, South Dakota. Their...

I think they've moved closer to being the cheapest by a hair vs. previously being a dime or two cheaper, at least in this market (and probably in others too). I would say that people still seem to be going religiously so perhaps they counted on people making that part of their routine? I do...

Popped it off the wall and checked the back - do you think that'd be below the plastic plate covering most of the board? Or is it possible there's no such adjustment on this model?

Sorry if that was confusing, I appreciate everyone's help. I was just saying I seem to prefer the basic stat to the Nest I had here before, and explaining its quirk of behavior regarding the jumping to aux heat. This is my first heating season here so I'm not really sure how the two stats would...

Funny you say that - I had a Nest here when I moved in but it was replaced as part of a wild goose chase AC troubleshooting saga involving intermittent failures (it ended up being the TXV that was bad). They replaced it with this: I count myself lucky that it's a programmable model, after...