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The most significant variable in fuel mileage variability is totally random and one you can’t measure - wind. My Ridgeline displayed fuel mileage on cruise at 70 mph through the flat delta lands of MO and ARK has ranged at the extremes from 23 to 32 depending on whether i have a head wind or...

The four states I've lived in the southeast they are tags, unless you go all fancy and get vanity plates. Renewal stickers are ....well, stickers.

If you measure the gasket height and look up the thread pitch, there is a good chance you will find that at 1 turn you have achieved full gasket compression and the filter metal has made contact with the engine block. Any rotation past 1 turn is distorting the base plate, not compressing the...

The Briggs oil and the bottle of oil packaged with new mowers are rated SJ, which is the last spec with a hefty dose of ZDDP. I suppose the extra additives are advantageous to the lifespan of the engines that will be run to failure before the first oil change (people in industrial maintenance...

This is the only filter that made my Yukon run about 10 psi below normal oil pressure shortly before it was time to change oil. The oil was the usual PP 5W30 and I struggle to believe that I have a sludge problem changing PP at 30 - 40% life on the OLM. Back to the ACDelco Ecore which was...

Comcast is relentlessly trying to upgrade me with a free new router that is the next step higher speed (don't recall the exact number) but after they go through the whole sales spiel, they casually mention, Oh by the way, for this wonderful life changing upgrade your bill will go up $10 per...

That only works out to about a 1 psi load on the ground. Your dog exerts a higher psi loading than that where it steps. If that area is where the septic tank is located however, all bets are off.

My wife drove through an area where a road paving project got interrupted by a thunderstorm and when she got home her white car was freckled with brown/black spots all over. Soap wouldn't touch it, but Goo Gone took it off fairly easily, so after washing, I wiped down an entire Yukon with goo...

My bad. It would have been more correct to have phrased my answer as something about the need to prevent the release of the magical electric smoke as the power requirements escalate dramatically with increased speed. Given the cubed relationship between speed and power, raising the top speed...

Might it be that power required goes up with the cube of speed, and at some point the wires start melting.

My problem isn't so much being social security age, as it is my retiree work ethic - I'll get to it tomorrow.

I had the same complaint. If you order by phone you have to tell them NO GARLIC BUTTER on the crust and if you order online you have to go into the special instructions and check the box for no garlic butter. Dominos pizza quality seems to be highly dependent on the particular store it comes...

We have used Wet and Forget which can be bought in a premixed jug at Lowes. It does no immediate cleaning but it kills the algae which will weather off over time.

The long press unlock for windows down is totally undocumented in the original owners manual for my '17 Ridgeline, although subsequent manual updates now mention it. Also on the Ridgline the instrument cluseter has a border that changes color between white and green depending on fuel economy at...

Looks like somebody turned a plastic pan upside down where my son parked his chevy truck last night.

A more costly but less thought required option is a power converter. It has all the prong adapters and produces standard US 110V 60 cycle power up to 500 watts. I didn't trust my daughter to read the fine print on every charger, and you certainly can't go anywhere without your hair...

About two weeks ago we had a really dirty mud rain in KY from the dust storms in TX

This is something of a Captain Obvious comment that won't help the OP, but I have measured the gasket protrusion on the filters for my cars and in each case the filter thread pitch would have the can bottomed out against the engine block at 1 revolution past initial contact. Any tightening...

A word of caution about the off the shelf cleaners - some have sodium hydroxide as an ingredient which would be corrosive to an aluminum heater core.

I have never had one of the diaphragm valves fail to shut off. The fill time just gets longer and longer and there are, ahem, "occasions" when a 5 minute cycle time on flushes is inadequate.