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LIVE. Doing a delivery to Pebble Beach and saw it out of the corner of my eye in Castroville, California. The road is closed beyond this point. No one can get any closer.

I can identify some of that.

I am not a peacenik per se. But the performance here. The harmonizing. Epic. And current with the Bob Dylan movie out, "A Complete Unknown."

5W30 is NOT too thick for this engine. However this engine is designed to run efficiently and adequately protected on 0W16 and now clearly 0W8 under favorable circumstances. In service since 2016, the Dynamic Force series engines also have an emissions compliant cooling system, that warms up...

Grills are very important on trucks. I don't know what to say about this one. At least the rust softens things a little. If only it had a push button automatic transmission shifter.

SMH. C'mon, man ! :giggle:

Medium dark roast. Roast date 10.29.24 . Certified organic. Stumptown out of Portland, Oregon. This is premium quality product. I do slow 48-72 hour cold brewing with a Meuller Cold Brew Coffee Maker, to lower the acid. The flavor is intensified, and features classic Ethiopian qualities of...

Purchased locally at Whole Foods.

African and Indonesian earthy medium-dark roasts suit my discriminating palate best. --Sulawesi Kalosi (Peets) --Three Africas (Blue Bottle) My top two.

Thanks Mola. I will be sure to touch base with David Ward before purchase. My guess is that Toyota or the author involved in their press release was not being precise. Dealership service advisors and the owners manual both mention that using the wrong viscosity can lead to a noisey unit.

There is a rattling sound that occurs when a D-4S engine is first started. It is normal ! People scramble for thicker oil to try and cushion this sound when it is entirely unnecessary to do that. No alarming wear is happening, folks. Personally, I do drive with a light foot for the first ten...

I am glad you pulled this up. It is a big factor in my revisiting my thinking on transmission, transaxle fluids. Toyota WS is famous for being Group III and meh. Their explanation at their own presser in Singapore, upon the release of Toyota Geniune e-Transaxle Fluid TE was underwhelming. Blah...

This is a perfect NYD meal ! Blackeyed peas for good measure. 2025 gonna be outstanding.

The Toyota TE is only available in gallons at ++ $100 per gallon and slightly more than one gallon needed for a change out at 60k miles. I can get a six pack of quarts of HPL Teal for less money and leave it in there for 120k miles.

I will be switching to HPL "Teal" and that is my final answer.

I have always been a stickler for only using genuine Toyota fluids at AT/CVT/Transaxle, however... The decision is in-I am switching to HPL "Teal". 2024 Corolla Cross Hybrid. Spec is Toyota Genuine e-Transaxle Fluid TE. On my 2019 Lexus UX 250h it was WS Fluid everwhere, with this same...

See my threads. It is good that Toyota finally got around to recommending what I have been doing for years and 200,000 miles on M20A-FKS, M20A-FXS engines. :)

Mg ~ 40% of Ca content. Zn ~ 90% of Ca content. What LSPI ???!??? It has been stated on these pages that very high Ca content does not lead to LSPI when a favorable amount of Mg, Zn and Mo are present. It is possible to have the best of all worlds.

So it has been said on BITOG that oxidative thickening leads to varnish and more. "...work-hardened oil." I like this term. This oil can go 20k for OP !