Recent content by Tyson F Nuss

Unless... it's a Case of the Missing Moly? (case, jug, whatever! ) Come to think of it, I was okay with some Maxlife I'd tried before, but then I discovered the MDC+HM and regarded that as superior. Too bad I seem to have just missed the free Maxlife rebate offer (mebbe there'll be another one...

FWIW, whenever I have to remove a wheel or two, I always lay them underneath the car as backup in case the jack and/or stands fail -- better than nothing! Oh, and then there's this: (on close inspection, there's more than one thing wrong in this picture!)

The now-defunct Mobil DriveClean Plus High Mileage 10w40 synthetic blend used to make both me and my car's engine very happy. It was a ~$2/qt. bargain for its formulation (IIRC, it seemed to be mostly a decent G-III blended with >=~20% PAO?), kept my seals tight as a drum with negligible...

I would recommend/use: SYNTHETIC: Mobil Delvac1 (aka Mobil1 Truck&SUV) SYN-BLEND: Mobil DriveClean Plus (formerly "DriveClean Blend") -- IIRC, reportedly 20-25% PAO w/ remainder Group III! CONVENTIONAL: I wouldn't, but in a pinch, Chevron Supreme sticks in my brain as getting consistently...

Actually, the latter is the sort of give I meant -- a 70+ profile tire would (almost?) always have to be a ride-oriented tire, and thus would tend to be cushier both at speed and going slowly over uneven surfaces and/or around sharp bends/corners, so any marginal height advantage you might get...

Try B2-HPG. BTW, as mentioned elsewhere here, http://adiesel.com/ has good prices and modest-volume discounts with online ordering, while http://westfleet.com/ reportedly has slightly better prices but phone/fax/email orders/quotes only.

Check out Tire Rack's track tests and driver surveys and reviews. Some are pretty decent value for money in their class (e.g. HTR200 as a HP summer tire -- my car's PO, a retired Pirelli R&D guy, picked these for his Lancia Beta coupe and is "confident that [he] can out run anyone else in...

This is not uncommon behavior for FWD cars pulling extreme lateral Gs, particularly noted in VW (and derivative Audi) FWD suspension designs; IIRC, back in the day of the original VW Rabbit/Golf GTI (grandpappy of the FWD tuned-econocar "hot hatch" -- which would make an original Mini Cooper the...

Actually, those tend to give less treadwear longevity than S- or T-rated, as the latter can have taller/deeper treadblock designs which at the higher ratings' max speeds could contribute to centrifugal forces undermining integrity (i.e., bust off blocks or fling the tire apart at high speed)...

Terry and Brian, I hope you don't mind if I jump into your loop to try and filter the oil in your system here. To wit: Is it even possible to determine, in a general-purpose "for all gas car engines" sense, the overall wear prevention characteristics of any one, particular oil, or the overall...

Just curious, which BFG T/A line were those? Many of BFG's various tire models carry the "T/A" suffix (Traction T/A, Touring T/A, Comp T/A, etc.), going back to their old marketing spiel about BFG tires' purported "Traction Advantage" (apparently borne out in the Traction T/As' case!). BTW, the...

In a nutshell, looks like the BFG Traction T&As will give you the sharpest handling and great treadwear but prolly a crisper ride, whereas the Yoko Avid H4S/V4S or Bridgestone Potenza G009 will give you a nicer ride but slightly less-crisp handling; the Falken Ziex ZX-512 also seems to fit in...

Funny you should mention this, as it just came up over in this Winter Oil Filter thread lately. LarryL had been working with some cold-temp oil that would fall "below" a 0w rating, saying if you tried to rate it in the usual manner, "you did you might end up with something like a -10w2. Looks...

If I was mistaken, please better-educate me, along with the "rest of the class"; specific corrections help more than broad criticism. I don't mean to seem sour or insincere by this; enquiring minds really do want to know (well, mine does anyway ). Are you saying that 0w30 actually does denote...

Oke, just to clear the air, "0w30" denotes a 30-weight basestock that has viscosity modifiers to meet a "0w" spec in winter temperatures (the "w" stands for "winter", not "weight"). "Multiviscosity" and "multigrade" are somewhat misnomers that inaccurately imply some kind of blend between...