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After retiring early from having mild muscle disease (CMT MD) ten years ago, I decided to see, study, and test most of those vitamins and supplements like one can get at Walmart , etc. I've come down to eat well like Salmon, brocolli, dried cherries, olives, walnuts, yogurt....... I think...

Silicone sealers ran up his silicon number. However, his earlier silicon #'s are high, too, but still probably sealers.

I even like my X1 s28i's traction control which is like posi-trat. When i turn off traction, left wheel spins wildly, but with it on car feels like it squats and goes. I ordered mine with M sport, and staggered wheels on Pirelli P7 summer tires. Make sure you get some summer rubber like...

I was amazed at how well that C5 drove. I'd never driven a Vette,but I did a deal with a guy that had 3, all in Red White , and Blue. I told him I'd do the deal if i could top out car. It was a cloudy cool spring afternoon on a mostly straight bumpy 2 lane county road with a fairly strong 2...

I took nearly everything with a claim including curcumin (concentrated tumeric)for 2 years. Indian woman make claims, and take tumeric for its drying effect. I think it has some anti cancer benefits, etc., but magnesium has studies saying there were less people with pancreatic cancer, and less...

I drove a C5 Corvette up to limiter at 162 speedo. Tach was 5krpm @ 162, and 5th gear. I shifted into 6th and tach was 3500rpm @162. I would have pulled faster without limiter in 6th gear. Low end torque allowed 5 gears to be fine, and 6th for low 1700rpm cruising to get that 27 mpg I've...

I thought tumeric was great for awhile, but also take 1000mg vit c with rose hips which is also good anti oxident. Tumeric is really drying, but funny thing is magnesium malate will moisturize body so much you might need to cut back. Imagine that there's no need for any dry mouth medicine...

I've got CMT type muscular dystrophy, and while not working the last 10 years I decided to study all the vitamin and mineral stuff on myself. I'm down to believing nearly everything goes back to nutritional bone health which also keeps blood vessel and joints healthy. Food: eat lots of salmon...

Disconnect neg battery for a few minutes, then, reconnect and start engine. Drive slow, and turn steering all the way to right and left. There might be other ways to reset on your particular car. Some have 20 brake stomps or turn the ign key several times without starting until code shows up...

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Drain or suck out fluid into clean jug. Put your liter in. Suck .1 liter of used oil back up in to bottle, and squirt to fill. I think lots of diffs are ok if it's within 1 cm of top and not overflowing. Some car manuals talk about 1cm down being the right level. Syn gear oil can last many...

I have a RX8 Mazda that had this resin that hung around on brakes for a few years, and would do what you describe. I wasn't driving car hard enough to bed in brakes until track day a year later. I wouldn't do anything except brake harder to burn the pads and rotor in, since pads are still ok.

I've sold thousands of tires, and that doesn' make me an expert because all kinds of rare things can happen. However, the wear isn't on the edge like excess toe would cause. I still think it's a loose belt not alignment. You're about to fix it by changing tires anyway. Just watch for wear on...

I noticed you said you'll get new tires in spring. This cool time of year is great time for them to cure without being heated a lot, yet. I think Michelin even has $70/set off for a few more days.

Considering that the other rear didn't do that, and lots of negative camber is normal on most modern cars in the rear; I'd say that the belt inside tire let go. I had a front tire do that once, and I was sure it needed alignment, but was loose belt on one side of tire. The worn spot and...

Mobil 1 0w40 will end up being 12cst instead of *w30's which are aprrox 10cst @ 100deg C. 5w40's or 15w40's tend to be 13 to 14 cst @100 deg. Even some 0w30's (Castrol) are 12cst@100deg. Last 2 jugs of Mobil 1 0w40 were $25 at Walmart less the $12 rebate.

I put Handkook Ventus V12's on my RX8 about 5 years ago. They were very squirmy, and I ran around 44 hot on the track. Now they are hard, and not much grip anymore, but they have held 38 psi hot FOR 2 YEARS. My newish 4 year old Pirelli P7's summer tires on a BMW X1 loose about 1 psi per month.

Overkill, I'm not the guy that said down to -7C. It was CharlieBauer. Widman graph goes from 0c to 100c, and he got right that 55deg C is the crossover point.

Use the Widman vis graph, and find out. Calculating the viscosity curve

I had a 97 Dodge Stratus that I never changed any belts, hoses, or antifreeze/coolant in 13 years, and 97k miles. Also, a 2002 Dodge Dakota 4.7L same thing for 11 years. I'm not saying everyone should do this, but the chances of getting wrong coolant installed can cause extreme corrosion.