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    Safe To Mailorder PUP @ Amazon/Walmart?

    That has been a serious problem in the past, Amazon is actively addressing these issues and it should be getting rarer by the day. https://pod01.us-east-1.mpes.mtx.primeair.a2z.com/#/vehicles/000361/work-orders/c622bfe1-93d4-45b8-8a6e-5dd172957eeb
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    Safe To Mailorder PUP @ Amazon/Walmart?

    I order PUP from Walmart.com my local store only carries PP, I would also order it from Amazon.com as long as it was "ships and sold" by Amazon. but the Walmart.com price is lower. UOA of walmart.com PUP...
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    Home Made Windshield Washer Fluid

    In Florida I used just a bit of dawn and hose water, worked great for decades no issues (will strip wax if you wax your car) now i live at 45 degrees lattitude, I need the alcohol and that kills much of the advantage of making your own.
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    Grease on Manual transmission shifter that is compatible with/safe in a manual transmission?

    The Miata Manual transmission has what is often refereed to as a Shift turret, it is a nominally separate sump from the rest of the transmission the lower half of which is filled with GL4 gear oil same as the transmission, in this same chamber are two pivot balls that are coated with grease...
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    Mechanic won’t use oil I’ve chosen

    " I can’t even get him to write down when he does what." Strike 3, your out. Documentation is a cornerstone of any real maintenance program.
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    how low on oil can a standard car get before there is a mechanical problem

    Every Car I have owned has had something, low oil quanity light, low oil pressure light, oil pressure guage, or combination there of. I am not sure if every car has something.
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    How do you feel about debt?

    Debt is a tool, and a powerful one, a force multiplier, if used improperly it gives others the power to make you poor, if used in the right ways at the right times it can help you find financial security.
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    how low on oil can a standard car get before there is a mechanical problem

    Far Too many factors to make a blanket anwser for all vehicles and all situations. My wife had an ancient abused 4runner with a pretty bad oil leak, I was bad about remembering to check it and she was bad about telling me the oil light was on, it routinely got 4 qts low on a i think 6 qt...
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    Pennzoil Ultra Platinum 10w-30, 5.7L 3UR-FE , 2016 Toyota Sequoia.

    :ROFLMAO: That did turn out to be a very happy arrangement! I was confident in running a 10w-30 in a "0w-20" motor through the spring summer and fall, there was FUD about running it into our cold winters with potentially -10s in our near future. weather it would be OK I will never know as I...
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    Is there any practical benefit to letting a passenger car oil warm up before driving?

    I give it a moment to get oil pressure 15 seconds or so and then slowly drive off, its about 1.2 miles to get on the freeway I will take it easy until that point and then it gets the gas to put me on the freeway, UOA results are excellent without any elaborate warm up.
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    Pennzoil Ultra Platinum 10w-30, 5.7L 3UR-FE , 2016 Toyota Sequoia.

    Backstory: we bought this 4x4 Toyota Sequoia SR5 almost 2 years ago with 194K miles, It was owned by a company that repaired x-ray machines, they drove it a lot but it appeared to only have a driver inside, interior was immaculate. and had no wear accept for the drivers seat and the very back...
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    FJ Cruiser oil choices and reccomendations.

    3ur-fe (5.7L) & 1ur-fe (4.6l) in Dubai, both call for 0w-20 in the US, overhead cam VVT-i
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    FJ Cruiser oil choices and reccomendations.

    Originally Posted by PantherFan88 Going to be picking up a 38k mile, 2014 FJ Cruiser with the 4.0. Seems to be spec'd for 0w20 in the later model years with the newer "LEV Eco Friendly" version of the 1GR-FE. It supposedly gained an "improved DOCH VVT-i" system. 0w20 seems to be pretty thin...
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    Your Opinion on Pennzoil Ultra Platinum 5W-30 (SN) vs. Pennzoil Plantinum (SN)?

    Originally Posted by Scuder I know from personal experience that many, many resellers are not interested in having a second, more expensive flavor of Pennzoil synthetic that doesn't meet any more specs than the one that receives good advertising and marketing support. to your point my local...
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    Warming the oil for oil change

    Originally Posted by demarpaint I like to warm the oil by running the engine so everything is in suspension when the oil is drained. That's the way I was taught and I stuck with it. You'll probably read a lot of different opinions about it. Exactly, it also increases drain velocity witch can...
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    Does anyone put heat shrink tubing over a connector plug?

    if you apply heat shrink will end the end the heat shrink be out of the rain? where the heat shrink ends on a bundle of wires will not be waterproof, any water that does get in will have a much harder time drying.
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    cut ADBV in Mobil1 oil filter

    Originally Posted by Imp4 Originally Posted by RavenTai Originally Posted by Imp4 Originally Posted by RavenTai ...with such a premium cost filter I think I should have a working ADBV to keep oil in the oil galleys on shutdown. What makes you think it is not working? ADBV is basically a check...
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    cut ADBV in Mobil1 oil filter

    Originally Posted by JohnnyJohnson My goodness a Mobilator! Whats a mobilator? mobile re-branded puralator?
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    cut ADBV in Mobil1 oil filter

    Originally Posted by ZeeOSix Look familiar? https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/5386359/ Very, so this is not just a one off problem?
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