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Oil change on the Prius, the neighbor’s 2024 RAV4 and a coat of paint in the bathroom.

I used the Boss. It seemed OK. I’ll see about a post-mortem of it.

The Boss is the oldest. Got it from AAP’s fire “sale” for $4. The STP has a 2024 production date, Toyota filters are fresh. I use them on the Camry my dad drives for Uber in.

I need to do an oil change this weekend. Using VRP 5W-30. There’s an STP S4967XL I got from AutoZone as part of an oil promo. Also have a Puro Boss and plenty of OE Toyota N1 filters. It’s going on a Prius with almost 225K on it. It does drink oil but I don’t anticipate any severe loading of the...

It’s the Belgian Budweiser.

Use that Permatex. It’s good stuff. I’ve used 518PST for a few things.

09 Hyundai Sonata, customer(a friend) states weird sounds and the engine is cutting out. Pulled codes last night, P0302, P0264 and P2610. Cleared codes, took the car out for a drive and all seemed OK but I felt something was a little off. Fuel trims looked OK, STFT was between -2%<>3% and the...

I had to get one to safely bleed the brakes on a Toyota hybrid. They aren’t cheap.

Premium Guard. The current supplier for STP(AutoZone), O’Reilly and Advance.

OEM or PG-made. I rarely run oil beyond 6K.

I talked to a local transit bus mechanic and he told me DPF/SCR also doesn’t play nice with transit buses, they call in someone to clean the DPFs but this agency does have buses make commuter/deadhead runs on the freeway so they’ll have a chance to do a passive regen. Long Beach and LA/Orange...

A lot of transit buses doing hard time on the streets of LA, NYC and Dallas are also using Cummins ISL xNG Near Zero engines. And a lot of Waste Management’s fleet is also running Cummins xNG L/M/X engines too.

From the climbing competition last night. Touchstone Brewing Co. Bear Hug Hazy.

that’s why pHOAT is now Ford’s preferred coolant. Ford started using CAB heater cores on the Transit, and those had issues with their previous coolant, which was Dex-Cool OAT. Prestone and Peak are pushing pHOAT(Prestone Command Cor-Guard and Final Charge Pro-Series) in the OTR market as well...

The Japanese have settled on silicate free but phosphated coolant, while the Europeans and GM have been using xOAT for a while. I’m not a fan of 2-EHA with engines using silicone(RTV or formed gaskets) but I’m running Prestone in a Toyota for almost 5 years with no ill effects.

I’ve been there days after it opened. It really is a nice terminal.

It sounds a whole lot like Toyota’s new e-Transaxle TE fluid, an ultra-low viscosity oil. But Honda’s new system is a serial hybrid system - the engine drives a motor/generator which in turns drives another motor/generator. The latest version includes a clutch to allow direct drive by the ICE...

No OLM. The car’s used for Uber.

I’m wanting to run R&P in a Camry that sees a lot of Uber use, but Toyota “officially” sanctioned 0W-8/16 for it, but OKs 5W/10W-30 for the Mexican market and the A25A can use up to a 20W-50. I’ll wait for the drivetrain warranty to be up. R&P is available in 0W-20.

25 Camry, 35K Out - M1 AFE 0W-16, Toyota filter In- PP 0W-16, HPL EC, Toyota filter.