Recent content by VersatileGuy

People thrive by the appeal to authority fallacy. So they think that you're superior because you're a pilot, not because your ears are good independent of pilot training. Besides pilot training has no relevance to detecting car sounds because the soundscape is entirely different but they can't...

Let's just take it to the extreme. That alternator bearing that is going wahhhn, all in the customer's head. The customer is just a dumb monkey who is hearing things. Only when it gets louder and/or he's stranded is his alternator bearing proven failed. That rattle from a loose exhaust shield...

People sit in their cars for a long time. It's the presumption that humans are necessarily insane or prone to fabrication that suffocates further investigation into matters. This especially true when we're talking about machines like cars, where the room for human bias is much less because the...

Well, it might be the Toyota Matrix is a smaller pad and there was also plenty of stop-and-go or mildly hilly terrain. So maybe that's why the EBC Red failed quickly for me. I definitely noticed the superior "control" with them compared to all the other pads that were on the Matrix, including...

It's a solvent. The oil is the solute. The oil's adherence and affinity for the metal or other similar surface is weakened far more greatly than with other solvents. Maybe you're a organic chemist, then you could given the full breakdown that you've seen under the microscope. But I do know...

You seem to believe the points of friction are mutually exclusive when they are not, and even insulted another member's intelligence with a ferocity in a deleted post. Two, the matter of ECE R90 certification merely guarantees equivalence, not superiority to OEM. Thus, you are implying that...

I would not toss away Toyota rotors. My experience was with just the pads on stock worn Toyota Matrix rotors(worn by cheap Centric semi-metallics)

I would never use High Mileage as the very chemicals there are more of in HM accelerate elastomer deterioriation. Just use R&P. Orings might need to be switched to Viton.

Mighy some sense...but if it is cleaning up a dipstick or valve cover top, I leaning towards something that dissolves the varnish as another key component at least.

Unfortunately for me, Red Stuff only lasted a year for me, so I opted for longevity with Duralast, and Autozone's sweet warranty that includes ordinary wear. Autozone's highest pads are clearly worse than the Red Stuff. Warranty came in handy when a brake hose died and destroyed the pad.

No, I said it is something that works like perc. The way perc just breaks up and loosens up motor oil deposits, then leaves the surface dry like the oil was never there is quite noticeable compared to the acetone-based non chlorinated brake cleaner. But I doubt perc would make good engine oil...

They aren't saying regardless. My guess is that they found something like a chlorinated hydrocarbon but it is not a chlorinated hydrocarbon like percholorethlyene(brake cleaner). I might buy Valvoline stock because this might be the mother of all petroleum oils...(whale blubber was always...

Well, rodents might play a role in triggering that policy. Harder to chew through and ruin an expensive building by fire.

No ceiling lights is the norm in older houses in Maryland

Every component contributes to stopping distance, even if the degree is less. I used EBC on lame used tires and noticed the bite and control their Red Stuff brakes could do.