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I have a 2007 Toyota Matrix, the ABS has always been on when stopped and it has never been an issue. Lately the cruise light started blinking and at the same time, the car would idle low (like 500rpm) and the AC would start blowing hot. Took it to my local mechanic and he recharged the AC...

So here's the thing, I'm trying to keep my costs down, I'm buying a house, I have to take care of my dad; and to be honest I find the oil prices for diesel VWs to be ridiculous. I'm used to spending $20 changing oil with synthetic on almost every car I've had, the STI costs me $30 total because...

I got a new daily driver, 2011 GX460 with 143k miles, the miles don't worry me one bit because being a Toyota product I have no doubts I'll be able to put down 500k miles on this beast. I already ordered the fumoto valve, toyota oil filter wrench, and the cartridge filter.. but I don't know...

I keep hearing it, the "new formula" and how it "doesn't have the good stuff anymore". But what stuff? All information that I can find is that regulations simply changed and they can't certify Rotella T6 for gasoline engines anymore but that it should still be good. The reason I'm asking is...

Bye bye Honda! It was honestly a great car, but it bored me so I'm not even mad, just happy to be alive. I complained about those goodyears since the day I got the car new (I hate goodyears with a passion).. absolutely zero traction. Touched a bit of standing water and that's all it took, zero...

What do you guys do about oil changes in leased vehicles? I obviously care about my STI and Ascent.. they're owned, and I'm religious about maintenance on those cars. But my Civic Si.. I cared about it for the first year because I thought I might buy it out after the lease, but recently I...

This was in my Ascent for 6k miles with Supertech 5w30. I think it looks great, specially for $1.80! I do wish the ADBV was sturdier.. but in a few months I'll have one with 10k miles off my parents' Legacy to see. This filter is also being used in my Civic Si, I quite like the value of it...

I know 3k miles is nothing, but I was mostly looking for oil dilution since my oil smells like straight up fuel. The viscosity went down.. so there must be some fuel present, I will probably change the oil every 5,000 miles. (I did not change the oil). I am happy with the wear results, good...

First oil analysis on my newly built motor! Extremely happy with the results, expected much higher wear metals since this motor only has 2500 miles so technically it's still breaking in. Small built motors with a lot of boost usually have terrible numbers, but for 408whp (about 500 crank hp)...

I was at Walmart picking up some boxed havoline synthetic 5w30 for the Ascent and to my surprise... Supertech (Warren) now has a 0w16!! I moved the bottle around to compare the sound to 5w30 and it definitely sounded like a water jug lol.

This was a nice surprise at walmart, since before the boxed oil was only conventional and high mileage blend. It comes out to about $3.30 per quart, still a bit more than Supertech synthetic at $3.20 per quart.. But that difference is negligible so I might buy it to support the boxed oil...

Just wanted to see if this cheap filter would hold up okay. I was thinking of going 10k but the car rolled 50k so now it will be easier to remember.. 60k.. 70k.. Some uneven pleats but otherwise great! Sadly I won't be buying these anymore because I just bulk order a bunch of cheaper filters...

I saw this in my Facebook subaru sti group (people are making fun of it, for a good reason) and thought I'd share here so you guys can get a chuckle too. Some people will just buy anything..

I'd like to put together a list of which synthetics fall under what group. I've been seeing a lot of false information online, mainly Facebook car groups.. where amsoil reps like to claim that their oil is group 5 and "specially formulated for racing!", and people eat it up. It would be good...

Trying to figure out what it could be... I don't wanna take it to the dealer because I know my dealer and they always blame non OEM filters for whenever anything isn't right... they're a waste of time. *sometimes* when starting it up in the morning, there's a huge cloud of smoke from the...

Thought you guys would get a kick out of this since 99% of you haven't heard about how South America used to get bagged oil, and now there's the eco-bags. I grew up in South America and I remember seeing bagged oil like this (without the friendly cap), my grandpa used to get 25w60 (bottled) for...

Nothing bad to report lol.. they did their job, but they were used for short oci's. The Subaru filter was only used for 1000 miles (breaking in a forged built motor). The Supertech filter was only used for 1400 miles, it's a brand new Civic Si on its 2nd oil change. I had to do it early...

I have a 2015 Subaru STI with a newly forged built motor, I ran 250 miles on Motul's 10w40 break in oil, then changed, 500 miles with that oil again, changed again.. and now I'm almost done with 1000 miles on a new batch of Motul break in oil. I will be doing an oil change in 2 weeks, to Redline...

No tears to report, everything looked decent. Left: Fram Ultra, ran 8000 miles on a 2017 Legacy with supertech 0w20 full synthetic. Right: Subaru OEM, ran 2500 miles on a 2019 Ascent with supertech 5w30 full synthetic. I will probably never use the OEM Subaru filter again, just because it...

So I'm having trouble finding a longer filter for 3 of my cars (all use the same filter). My STI is the only one that gets a fancier K&N filter and maybe Wix soon. But the other 3 i'm trying to run on a budget, 2017 Legacy 2.5, 2018 Civic Si, and 2019 Ascent. I like the $2.80 supertech filters...