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Group IV oils are excellent if you have a car that burns oil. The oil consumption rate for conventional and "American Synthetics" are equal while going with a PAO oil halves the oil consumption. A friend of mine had a truck that would consume 1qt of oil every 500 miles regardless of the oil he...

I have an ES350, tried the 5w-20 and got worse fuel economy than with 5w-30. I recommend sticking with the 5w-30.

Originally Posted By: BIMMA 2GR-FE calls for 5-30. Mine currently is running on M1 0-20 AFE but the engine is more noisy and not that smooth. My ES350 with the 2GR-FE ran 5w-30 for most of its life. For a period I believe of at least one oil change interval, possibly two interspersed oil...

Sound waves and radio frequency waves aren't the same. This is a common misconception due to the fact that sound and radio waves can be projected at identical frequencies like a 22khz sound wave or radio wave. Sound waves require the movement of air, so a 22khz sound is the air vibrating or...

CCA is a different test from reserve capacity. A car can have excellent CCA and poor reserve capacity and vice versa. In the case of my car, the CCA remained unchanged from 500CCA but the reserve capacity increased quite substantially. The car can be parked for several months at a time now and...

I know this is a bit of an old thread but I wanted to chime in with my opinion on the subject as I own a Batteryminder 1500 and Batteryminder 12248. While these devices by no means can recover a battery with a bad cell, I have had success in recovering a few batteries with one particular battery...