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My Mercury Grand Marquis has 150,000 miles on it. My OCI is 5000 miles using MC 5w20 mostly and MC filter. For the last 50,000 miles or so I started having to top off a quart every 3000 miles or so. Is there any other type of oil like the higher mileage oils that will either prevent or help...

Has anyone used G Oil and have any thoughts? UOA perhaps? TIA

I've been thinking about getting a bike to just get my blood pumping once in a while. It's been 25 years since I rode a bike and back then, you knew that certain brands were quality and others just garbage. I see now though that even quality brand names are being sold in Walmart - IOW, garbage...

Guys, I have a laser printer connected to my main rig running W7 x 64. Every so often, actually too often, I lose the ability to print from my other computers at home. I have a Win XP PC, and a W7 x86 laptop and I can't print from either computers. I think the easiest and simplest solution...

I just finished building my first HTPC (and what a PITA that was). I got an AMD Phenom x3 8750 BE (not Phenom II, 2.4 Ghz) for $35 used so I based the HTPC on that CPU. I also had 2 x 1 GB of DDR2 RAM, so I wanted a MoBo that used DDR2 instead of the ubiquitous DDR3. This is the MoBo I ended up...

I have an older Airlink101 MIMO G (AR525W) router. It's been a few years since I bought this and though it works fine, I was wondering with all the "N" routers, is it worth upgrading to a new router? Are the new wireless routers fast enough over this router to warrant an upgrade? TIA BTW, I...

Here's the scenario. I have a Cat-5 wired desktop pc and I would like to use it to get wi-fi for my iPod Touch. Obviously, I can just add a wireless router if this was a "normal" scenario. But it's not. So, my question is, is there a simple device like a USB AP or repeater that I can just plug...

I'm looking for my first GPS unit for the car. I've never used one so all I know is that these two are top brands. I think I'd like text to speech and street names read aloud and auto recalc if I make a wrong turn. Oh and I'm rather hard of hearing so it would help if the volume could be turned...

The car: 10 year or so V70 Wagon(?) The Situation: It blew a HG while driving back from CA to AZ and was stuck in the desert. The car was towed and a hundreds of $ in hoses were replaced. This was 6 months ago. The owner let the car sit because he couldn't afford to repair the car. MY...

I'm about to replace the valve cover gasket on my Miata and the directions call for a "high temp silicone sealant". Just what product should I be using that I can find at Autozone, Napa, etc.? And just how high temp is "high temp"? I have a tube of Permatex clear RTV silicone that is good for...

With an AMD x64 5200 and 4 GB (max) RAM, would a x64 OS - I'm leaning toward Win XP - gain me any (noticeable) processing speed? The most taxing thing I do is video encoding. TIA

I'm running Build 7077 and compared to my Vista Ultimate (with all the Aero turned off), it's much faster. I thought I had some issues with W7's wireless network, but it turned out to be a problem with my Cox Cable. The most obvious thing for me is that photos/thumbnails are rendered much...

Anyone dual boot into Windows 7 to try it out? I really want to try out the new Beta but I don't want to mess with my main Vista laptop.

Now that I'm thinking about getting a MP3 player, I've played with an old Samsung phone that had a player built in. I also had a friend lend me a RCA Lyra. Both devices have played the audio books that I've uploaded in a really screwy order. On the Lyra, I've even used a MP3 tag and rename...

I've been listening to some audiobooks I checked out at the library and copying them to CDs are a PITA so I've been converting them to MP3s and using an older cell phone I no longer use as a MP3 player. I think I'm finally ready to buy a real MP3 player. I really don't listen to too much music...

I have an older Dell Optiplex GX240 with Win Xp Pro with less then 1 gb of RAM. I keep filling up the 160 gb HD so I decided to buy a 750GB SATA drive. Since it does not have a SATA interface, I bought one of these: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=EN391-S2 I use it using a USB...

The title says it all. I'm about to wipe out the HD and start again. But the last time I did this, it was such a PITA to track down all of the drivers. Anyone have the original Disc for Vista or even XP? I'll be eternally grateful. Thanks *Note: I am not asking for the Operating System, just...

I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 with 2 gb RAM, T7200 Intel Centrino Duo @ 2.0 Ghz and of course Vista Ultimate. I have all of the Vista goodies turned off and before I had any problems, it seemed a lot slower than I would have thought. A few days ago, I installed Frontpage 2003 on my laptop which...

One of my bedrooms is 10x10 and it is the coldest room in the house. I'd like to get a space heater for that room as one of my toddlers sleeps in the room. I had a baseboard heater a long time ago and it worked great, but I remember it really sucked a lot of juice. Is there such a thing as an...

I recently set up a P4 1.6 with 512mb RAM with Ubuntu 8.04. The set up was a lot easier than the Redhat 5.x that initially played with way back when. But now that I have it up and running, I'm wondering what I can actually use it for? I was hoping it would be faster than the P4 1.8 with 600 (or...