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Welcome to BITOG! Mods, please move this to the proper forum. And OP, yes you need to drain that oil out and use oil suitable for a 4 stroke engine.

Again, I fail to see what else I can/will do. It’s not tires (see prior post), and the PTU is actively shedding metal at a high rate and making noise. Very short OCIs also are not helping. What am I missing?

What else would there be to look into or consider? I’m always open to trying whatever is needed to troubleshoot.

It’s not tires. I have a separate winter tire and wheel set, and that makes the same noise. I’ll keep driving it, but the fact that it’s shedding so much metal is proof that it’s failing. The first fluid change was by me at 44k miles, with no metal in the oil and a nearly clean drain plug.

UPDATE: yesterday, at just under 79k miles (about 8k on fluid) I did another drain and fill on the PTU. While the fluid was still amber and not burnt at all, there was a ton of glitter in the fluid, and a noise has developed in the last 5 months or so, shortly after the last fluid change (see...

I’ve been loosely looking into this too. There seem to be a lot of possibilities put forward on how he might have cheated, but all are hypothetical. I think the aspect that drew the most attention, according to Magnus (and forgive me if I get this part wrong), is that his style of play changed...

Just don’t misplace it!!!

Weird that I didn’t… I used a cropped photo from my phone. But it uploaded fine, the page just became unresponsive when I went to submit. How can you tell what the product is tagged in their system as? Some have said they bought PUP, but the code in their system said PP. I don’t know where...

Ended up calling today, and one of my many clicks must have gone through haha. I got a confirmation number. Now to see if they’ll actually approve it. Euro L doesn’t have the ‘Platinum’ label on the bottle anymore for some reason, although it almost always does on the product description. The...

Agree on this also. I’m very passionate about quality axles, since my last vehicle seemed to chew through them haha. I bought a used OE axle (was already probably 10 years old and had like 60-70k miles on it), re-booted and re-greased it, and it lasted many years and miles. Was still in great...

Under no circumstances should you replace a good OE axle with a new aftermarket one. They are all garbage (with the exception of something like Raxles).

Good suggestion, as I rarely check that folder. Nope, not there either. I called Pennzoil yesterday and they said to wait as to takes a couple days to show up. Sounds weird, I’ve never had a rebate work like that.

For those who have successfully submitted rebates, how do you track them? Do you get a confirmation number? Pennzoil’s website has a tracking link but it’s dead. I tried to submit a rebate the other day but the page locked up. When I tried again, it said “only one rebate per household”, etc. so...

I believe that is the normal price. I actually bought this for $23.xx the other day at a Walmart near me.

It’s crazy that this thread is still trending. Can we please lock it so everyone can save their energy for posting useful info somewhere else? Like starting another thick vs thin thread, perhaps…

They used to have pink too (and red?). They’re all the same. The different color is just to match what was already in the system.

Zerex Asian (regardless of color) is the same as Mazda FL22, which is also Motorcraft Specialty Green. It’s a PHOAT coolant. I always found it odd that Mazda wanted a 55/45 ratio. But the 50/50 mix will be fine. If you buy the Zerex in pink, it results in a nice brown color when you mix it with...

Is anyone else having trouble submitting this rebate? I get to the final page with the submit button and nothing happens. Both on mobile and on a desktop PC. I finally got to the point where it accepted my click, but told me “only one rebate per person/household”. So one of my earlier clicks...

12.5:1 compression on a naturally aspirated engine is still higher compression than a turbo engine running, say, 10.0:1 compression. The turbo engine can have higher cylinder pressure under boost, but the NA engine in this scenario still has a higher compression ratio. That being said, high...

You mess with Mika Hakkinen, now we have a problem.