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Full disclosure, that's the Village baking photo, not one of mine. I was eating mine off a paper plate. I usually don't eat breakfast, but my wife had picked up a box of various pastries, so I figured I should partake before the locusts (my 11 and 13 year old sons) descended on the pastry box.

It's not nearly so simple as "thick oil good, thin oil bad". As much as I dislike YouTube videos, this guy does a great job explaining what GM was doing and why.

I'll bet there are way, way too many variables to even come close to attributing anything like that to oil choice. How would you know, for example, that you got a batch of rings that were on the softer side, or that the cylinder bore was on the larger end of the acceptable range, and that over...

Cup of Maxwell House and one of these: https://villagebakingco.com/product/pain-au-chocolat/

This being a hobbyist site, we tend to get into "how many angels fit on the head of a pin?" territory quite often. And some people are very particular/anxious about what they use in their vehicles, so you're going to get a lot of very specific answers. But the truth is that the vast...

It's really close to 2000 kilometers (specifically it would be 1242 miles), which is a nice, round metric distance to schedule something like that.

The way the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act works is that manufacturers can't require you to use their in-house oils to maintain warranty coverage. But they CAN absolutely make a recommendation as to specs and weights, and then deny warranty coverage if you don't heed that recommendation. So GM...

That's pretty much exactly what they told me when I got my Ridgeline back in September. Use full synthetic oil, and they made a deliberate point of telling me not to change it early and to follow the Maintenance Minder for the first oil change. The manual just says:

It would be safe to say that you can't really go wrong getting a lower winter rating with the same warm rating. You may not do better but certainly not worse. Except for whatever sort of "how many angels fit on the head of a pin?" hobbyist esoterica about shear stability of 5w vs 0w oils...

I'd think this sort of thing would be best as a statistical analysis for a fleet. Like every vehicle gets oil analyzed at X thousand miles and Individual cars are going to have too much variation between seasons and what not to be useful I'd think. I mean I put a couple of thousand mile road...

I had a pair of Corsa tires on my old pickup that I got at Discount Tire when I got a screw in one. They were decent tires.

Maybe I should have highlighted and bolded the "adequate" part of the cooling capacity commentary in my post. All I was trying to say is that a cooling system that's big enough to shed the heat from a car in normal ambient temps wherever you are isn't going to be affected by Water Wetter...

Your coolant temperature is directly regulated by the thermostat, usually around 200 degrees Fahrenheit. So if Water Wetter did actually drop your coolant temp by 10 degrees, the thermostat would just close up such that it would keep that temp at 200, just the same as if there was some added...

What's going to drive whether you see them in stores is whether or not people buy them. And right now, there are enough people driving older cars that spec 10w-30, or people who are just used to using it, such that it remains in stores. 15w-40 is typically a diesel grade, so I would imagine...

As someone who's been to eight foreign countries and twenty six states, including Alaska and Hawaii, you really don't need to visit Dallas. It's a fine city and where I call home, but it's probably the least touristy major city I've ever visited. I'll never get the mentality that there's no...

That Magellan gin is supposedly quite good.

I was looking at the first picture and thinking "What is that, Klingon?" Scrolled down and saw that I wasn't that far off! Was it any good? I have a buddy who's a HUGE Trekker/Trekkie who'd probably appreciate it.

Oh, no... you misunderstand. The way he described it, they could load several gas stations' fuel into one truck at the same terminal. So one truck might deliver to multiple gas stations, all of which might be different brands/additives.

Of course it will. I'm not seeing why we'd be getting eye rolling and grumping; it's not like anyone around here grouses when they announce a new oil spec. This is no different- Top Tier gas is like any other performance standard, and changes as technology and needs increase.

Not that it's local, or that I got a good picture of the pump, but I'm including it because it's got the most hilarious gas station name. I present to you, the GASQUATCH in Broken Bow, OK.