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Winter tire swing!

Sucker? Nah. Helping our kids is the duty and privilege of every parent. Good on you for helping your son as you can (y)

When I re-booted an axle a couple years back, I used Redline CV2 grease in the inner and outer joints. I think the inner joint used a thinner grease from factory, and the outer was thicker (might have that backwards). I called Redline and they assured me that their grease would work great in...

I guess what I was getting at is that his suggestion to sample the same oil numerous times might provide someone with a consistent set of micro data. Maybe; depends on their ability to maintain specific driving habits and sample consistently. It’s better than nothing and might help track break...

I think his methodology is sound. But yes, it will take awhile to establish that baseline. Thankfully for me, there is a guy on FB who has a Kia Carnival like mine and has done numerous UOAs with the same oil, same grade. His wear metals are super low even with varied OCI length and time. I...

When did the overtourism thing start? After Covid? My wife and I went to Europe for the first time in August 2015, peak season I'd imagine. We went to a number of places in Croatia and Italy. It honestly wasn't that busy. Even a lot of the famous spots around Rome weren't super crowded. May of...

Add it to your mobile wallet and use it to pre pay for fuel inside the store. Seems to only work at some stations. It didn’t work at Speedway, but myself and another member here used it successfully at Mobil.

Altimas are good looking cars. Not used to seeing one with all its wheels, windows, and bumpers though.

I finally got my cards to work today, also at a Mobil station. Used Apple Pay to prepay at the counter.

I’m still trying to figure out what differences exist between these two specs. They seem to have a lot of the same types of tests. The one that stands out is that for C6, it is advertised as a “stay in grade” oil, meaning that some measure is in place to prevent shear. I’m assuming SP has...

Weird. That’s what I did. What gas station? I tried at Speedway.

I’ll have to try that again. That method didn’t work for me. Did you run as credit or debit? PIN or not?

It is oddly priced. It’s only a buck more, and from the SDS, also likely has GTL. The QSFS is not GTL. But it’s only sold at WM. Some stores don’t even stock the quart bottles of the grade I want, only the jugs.

I’m currently on my second OCI of this oil in 0w20 in the Carnival. It’s a Walmart exclusive product, but according to Quaker State’s website, it outperforms the QSFS. When I bought a couple OCIs worth last summer, the 5qt jugs were very new stock, but the single quarts were all from May 2023...

When was the last time SS was reformulated?

McGard stuff is good. The ‘OEM’ wheel locks on our Kia are McGard, fwiw.

That is true. I’ve seen some reports with the iron being about 4x higher. Given that, this report actually is quite good comparatively. What are the wear metals usually on a 30 grade?

I wonder how this will affect morning store prep. When I worked at Costco, we were usually working up until 10:00am to get the store ready. Some days were easier than others, but stuff is always getting restocked and moved around.

Really? Why? Not doubting you, I just have never heard that.

That iron seems high for the OCI. I doubt it’s still breaking in at that mileage.