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Yesterday I had a look at the MIL's John Deere LA110 lawn tractor. I don't believe that it had been started in three years, possibly four. It had gas in the tank and caburetor the entire time. Step one in the process was to connect my Gooloo 4000 jumper battery. There wasn't even a click on...

The ambient temperature has reached 100 degrees F here in SE PA the past two days. These have been the highest temperatures I've seen since purchasing a 2017 Ford C-Max Energi. The affects of running this vehicle in low temperatures with the heat on were learned almost immediately. These past...

My snow blower hasn't seen a lot of use these past few years but it did get a minor workout tonight on four inches of light snow. I checked the oil before starting and noticed the oil to have some color but it wasn't black. I believe the oil to be at least five years old but would be surprised...

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Have any of you tried HPL Green in a Toyota WS application? To be more specific I am curious about a Gen4 Prius, that being the 2017 Prius V in my signature.

This sample was taken when removing 1/2 quart of oil to replace with 1/2 quart of HPL EC30. This is a PHEV so the mileage on the ICE is not what it may seem. The estimated ICE miles are not more than 4500. Another thousand miles have gone by since this sample and a good 90% of those were ICE...

This sample was taken when extracting 1/2 quart of oil and replacing with 1/2 quart of HPL EC30. Winter is upon us now so the oil may not be fully changed for a few months. 0w-20 HPL Premium Plus is standing by for that change.

Our 2010 Prius seems to be on its last legs, not due to any hybrid battery issues but a plain old ICE head gasket failure. We've been looking into replacements in the 2020+ range and they all call for 0w-16. While looking into HPL PPPCMO we couldn't help but notice that the cold crank...

This is the latest report on my Son's 2016 Honda Accord. The vehicle had 63,084 miles at the time the sample was drawn. The oil wasn't changed at the time but a quart was removed to make way for a quart of HPL EC30. Note that the vehicle had been driven only 10k miles in the past three years...

This is undoubtedly a strange question, but here goes. My Ford C-Max Energi is coming up on eleven months and 10K miles with Mobil1 0w-20 EP. That includes 3200 miles of highway driving and another 600 miles of short trips in winter where heat was needed. The latter trips were either 18 miles...

I just saw this article from May of 2024. I have to confess that as a car guy who drives a PHEV this opinion piece is totally without merit. It seems to ignore the obvious fact that a PHEV is basically an EV for most daily driving scenarios and yet you can hop in it and take a thousand mile...

Yesterday I was assembling some Craftsman (MTD) 3100 PSI Pressure Washers for an upcoming Memorial Day sale. All but one came with a generic looking white bag of oil. This one was different. Oddly the oil was OE PCMO and not small engine oil.

A few weeks ago I performed the annual oil and filter change on our John Deere D140 lawn tractor. Everything went well and the lawn got cut the following week. After that cut I noticed a large puddle of clean oil on the shed floor. I checked the drain cap and oil filter and both were dry...

This afternoon I noticed 10w-30 RT6 at my local Wally*World. They also had 5w-40 but were out of 15w-40. Would a 10w-30 synthetic HDEO be a one and done for all of my OPE in SE Pennsylvania, including the snowblower? At this point I have both 10w-30 HM and 15w-40 RT6 on hand to cover the next...

"The universal averages for this engine are specific to hybrids, but not necessarily all plug in hybrids. There are 279 samples in the file currently; many are from the C-Max Energi and Fusion Energi, and there are also some traditional hybrid MKZs in the file, as well as C-Max and Fusion models...

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1142362_ford-cuts-mach-e-ev-prices-by-thousands-as-sales-plunge Apparently sales fell by 50% in January now that the Mach-E no longer qualifies for a $3750 Federal Tax Credit. Note from the article that the price cuts range from $3100 to $8100. Obviously...

All of the back and forth on the Fox News Christmas Road Trip piece has prompted me to share my own experience with a PHEV that runs almost exclusively in EV mode. Let's start off with some published specifications for my 2017 Ford C-Max Energi: Battery Capacity: 7.2 KWH Battery Acceptance...

I have an Ariens Deluxe 24 snowblower purcased maybe eigth or nine year ago. It has the 254 cc AX engine that was initially filled with 5w-30 M1 EP and subsequntly changed with the same after one season and maybe five to eight hours of use. Rolling the clock forward, this macine hasn't been...

I have an open frame Champion generator purchased right after hurricane Sandy in 2012. It saw us through a number of eight hour power interruptions up until 2018 when a Predator 3500 inverter generator joined the fleet. It probably has on the order of 50 hours of runtime. For a few years I would...

Earlier ths week the D140 wouldn't start or turn over. I suspected the battery which is now five years old, so I put it on the charger for a few hours. Nothing but a loud click. Next I tried jumping it from a much larger battery. Again, nothing but a loud click. At this point the solenoid became...