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Engines are too specialized today to just go by one parameter.

Here is an interesting video of a Golf R EA888.3 engine tear down with 240+ thousand miles on it and it has obviously been very well taken care of. It’s literally spotless inside yet a failure to maintain a non oil related component caused an internal failure. Lesson learned is when chasing a...

One of diesel oil’s functions is to suspend soot. Do not use a non diesel oil.

Great point. There are many layers of variability. Driving style, short vs long trips, topography, weather, system design etc. I would tend to do shorter oci till engine is broken in and do a test to see how those factors affect the oil

Everything I watch is at least 1.25x speed lol. An occasional fast talker will catch me off guard but not often.

My ford transit Connect would always show no oil on the dipstick when first pulling it. Wipe off and reinstall and then it would show the oil level as fine. My theory is that the engine pulls a vacuum that empties the dipstick’s tube. Once pulled it refills with oil. Check the o ring on your...

I wish they still made a two row Tahoe.

Honda probably leaving room on the dipstick for the fuel dilution lol

Well I checked the national database for door switch fires and lo and behold my model truck and Honda Fit came up with multiple diagnosis of the problem. Why would I fight through GMC about it? State Farm did it for me, they got paid back by GMC hence State Farm gave me my deductible back. I...

I was literally a Fire marshal/fire investigator before retiring in 2016. My personal vehicle, a 2003 GMC Sierra caught fire in my driveway due to a faulty switch in the door for the folding mirrors. By design it was a constant hot. Did I call GMC? Uh no. I called State Farm, got a new truck...

All day, every day and twice on Sunday.

Alphabet soup puts the autocorrect of my digestive system in overdrive and gives me heartburn

A car fire is an insurance claim and let the insurance company subrograte back against Toyota if they feel it’s worth it.

It was 67F this morning in WV where I live but it might as well have been 90. The Humidity is horrible and shocked me as I took the pups out this morning.

Screw driver and wrench for a chainsaw. Usually big socket is for spark plug and the small one is for the two nuts holding the bar on and the screwdriver is to extend the bar once the nuts are loosened to make up for chains slack/stretch

I’ve replaced the fan motor, blower motor, squirrel cage, many capacitors and a contactor and a roll out switch and the heat exchanger on my 30year old cheap Goodman system. It just keeps rolling. Price a new system and then go buy the motor.

The 504 of the certification is for gas vehicles and the 507 is for diesel. Much like 508/509 same oil can be used for both

As a retired firefighter when it rained, especially lightly after an extended dry spell, we just walked towards the trucks in anticipation of the deluge of wrecks to come.

I don’t think it looks lean at all. You want a coffee color, which those have, they are not white/ashy and no build up unless the lighting of the picture is throwing things off.

Just got a fresh set of tires on it.