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it's a long story, but to make it short, i took my boat to a lake an 1hr of interstate driving away. tires are fairly new, 2.5 years old with a third boating season. low miles with tread like new. proper size and load rating. the tires were in great shape and properly inflated before the trip...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! While the turkey is in the oven, I need from your guys an advice on neighbor and dog issues. I live in a "good an safe" neighborhood, but have a neighbor with anger control and aggressive dog. My little dog an a leash was attacked by his dog running loose outside...

I picked up an inexpensive airless (electric) spray gun at HF. I haven't used it, but read instructions for pre-use, use, and post-use cleaning. A bit confusing and I think this is why a lot of people fail with those and give one star review. Lots of 5 stars too. Anyhow, they mention application...

I used it for the first time. Poured in from 1qt bottles and it felt runny, just like 0W20 oil I use in another car. It's also light blue (can't see it on a dipstick). The oil that I used before in that car (several OCIs) was QSUD, also 10W30 and similar specs in terms of viscosity but seemed...

i'm well aware of problems with short trips in a car and I define short trip as less than 5-10 miles (in mild climate). now, how about a motorcycle? specifically i'm thinking 250cc, 4-cycle, water cooled, with 1.6 qts oil capacity? thanks!

I'm a bit stumped. You turn central AC on and it works OK the whole cycle, but when it cycles off and back on again, only warm humid air comes from registers forever. Condenser fan works but compressor is not running. Then I turn the system off again, restart and it works great but only for one...

Remember how someone posted here that we don't know yet if the equifax data is in the hands of criminals and the BITOG crowd jumped on that person? He/she might be right, this could be a foreign spy operation to infiltrate the US cyberspace better. here is the link...

This is a question I always wanted to ask. What when you receive some kind of spam email from a reasonably sounding organization and click the "unsubscribe" link. Could that be really a phishing fake email taking me to a rouge website that can compromise my PC and install a trojan or such? The...

I was googling for some out of box ideas for oil consumption and came across Krankvents in various forums: Quote: I use mobil 1 and I installed some Krankvents. Stopped my oil consumption almost totally. I was using about a half quart every thousand miles. Quote: krankvents have show some...

I got a 03 saturn ion for my son used with 135000 miles and changed oil due to unknown history (unknown oil looked clean). i followed the oil change light since. the first OCI was 5,500 miles, mostly city driving, with consumption of about 1-1.5qt (5W30 synthetic G-oil). seeing oil...

I'm talking about magnets in oil drain plugs. I use them in my 3 toyotas for several years now and every time i change oil i write down the amount of magnetic fuzz (almost nothing/minimal/mild/moderate/severe). I was going though my notes (that were not well organized) today and noticed (for the...

i just did an oil change using 0W20 M1EP SN. i sniffed a brand new 5qt jug and was surprised by this strong and a bit pleasant aroma. I vaguely recall smelling something similar in Pennzoil oil a while back (or was it Valvoline? forgot which one). I still had some empty bottles of the 5W20 M1EP...

In newer Corolla and Civic. Why is that? It's a pain to replace those hidden under the intake manifold.

it's old, but i just saw it today

Can you buy a generic sensor from ebay and assume it will fit a typical setup? longer version below: I installed an aftermarket backup sensor (single sensor) in my wife's RAV4 when it was new. It was a major chore to wire it it from the back. After 10+ years it's kaput. initially it failed to...

this is not about failing CV joints with the typical loud popping while taking hard turns at low speeds. this is about fast ticking noise at 50+mph while taking turns (especially right ones), not unlike hard drive crunching noise you hear with some loud hard drives (old Hitachi drives come to...

I know we are a global economy but it still shocked me. It's not the made in USA Johnson Controls design with a handle anymore. I picked it up today at AAP and it looked suspiciously dusty, but it's dated 02/17 and passed the load test (they tried to sell me 1 year old flat battery once)...

I read description of cutting oil here: http://www.machinerylubrication.com/Read/29574/choose-cutting-oil high sulfur, EP, sounds like gear oil to me. Can i use that instead (i'm a cheap person). long story: i managed to round an allen bolt. Why do they use them in cars in the first place??? i...

i ordered something from Canada naively thinking it would be delivered in 1 week. 2 weeks later i emailed the place and they told me regular shipping takes 20 business days. that's almost full month. I get most of Chinese ebay shipments under a month. what's going on? anyone orders anything from...

I'm a big fan of denso iridium TT "super sparkplugs" (120,000 miles+, 0.4mm iridium wire and platinum tip on ground, high performance, fuel saving). They are not available for every car yet and when i changed sparkplugs in toyota yaris last time i used the cheap and more available denso...