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Like the title says. Went one year on my '97 Maxima SE 5-speed. Just around 10k miles. Oil was M1 5W-30 EP, total miles 151k. OEM filter. Went 10 months (8k miles) on my '89 Accord Lxi (total miles 210k) and 10 months (9k miles) on my '98 Frontier 4 cylinder 5-speed (total miles 139k). Had...

I have a '97 Maximum 5-speed and I doubt it will ever die. But, my wife got rid of the '05 Odyssey (kids all drive and 20 years of mini-vans had given her a mini-van O.D.) and bought a new Civic with manual tranny. Now, I've got new car jealosy. Problem is, I'm all over the place on what to...

For whatever reason, I've never delved into a/c refrigerant recharging. I just took my 10 year old BMW into the dealer to get the a/c looked at. Not a good feeling The car had been sitting for 5 years so I guess the compressor seals were bad. Fortunately, at start-up it blew cold, but seemed...

I bought a 10 year old BMW which had sat in a garage for the last 5 years from a relative. The power steering fluid leaks at the rack seal on the driver's side (the fluid drips from the bellows). Would anyone care to offer their opinions on using a power steering stop leak product and if so...

Here's the deal, my sister has this car that's been in storage since '01 (or longer), that is, the registration on the plate expired in Oct '01. It was in storage at her town home garage in Colorado and she brought it east three years ago where it's been sitting in a open garage. She said that...

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I bought a Honda powered 17 HP Sears Craftsman lawn tractor two years ago. Last year it acquired an erratic idle where it would surge up and down at idle. This erratic idle occurs even after being fully warmed up. I used to get an rough idle on my old Briggs & Stratton 18 HP lawn tractor when I...

So I'm getting off a foreign assignment and thinking of taking a couple of the sons on a body board trip to Australia's East coast for 2 or 3 months. I was thinking of buying a decent used vehicle and car camping with camping equipment staying at hotels now and then. Anyhow, is it worth buying...

Just ordered some Redline 5W-20 for use in my wife's '05 Ody for use after break-in. Frankly, I probably would have gone with Mobil 1 5W-20 but it is never in stock in my area. I don't think this Ody gets much of a work out, probably 50/50 town/hwy not any long bouts of stop and go or towing or...

Just got a 2005 Odyssey EX with the copper shedding V6. I've researched this and came up with the following: 1. Leave break-in oil in until 3750 miles. 2. Change out oil and filter at 3750 miles with OEM (Fram built!) filter and Honda 5W-20 (Exxon Super-Flow) oil. 3. At 7,000 miles or so...

Interesting article in the NYT's: www.nytimes.com Medicare Covers New Treatments With a Catch By GINA KOLATA For the first time in its history, Medicare has systematically begun to make payments for new and expensive treatments and diagnostic tests conditional on agreement by companies or other...

This issue seems to have become a hot button with the Dems of late. I for one am quite intrigued by this phenomenon. It seems the present campaign in Iraq has become a stalking horse for a plethora of issues, with this being but one, but one perhaps most pregnant in terms of future development...

I am most interested in the groups thoughts regarding President Bush's ideas in regards to establishing a station on the Moon with the idea of utilizing that as a springboard to Mars. BTW, my pet project is to establish a network of smart super-highways in America (100 mph+ speed limits). I...

An article by a sail boater in the Caribbean who would leave his used diesel oil on the dock for the locals to use, and this forum has gotten me to thinking. Given the following: 1. The vast pre-ponderance of 3000 mile OCI doityourselfers. 2. The strong possibility that an oil filter is good...

Seems like a lot of posts of late have been of an epistemological nature, that is, how do you know what you know? What is the "truth". For example, beyond telling us something extremely obvious such as whether the oil is being contaminated by coolant, can a UOA be extrapolated to a point where...

Just got back my analysis from Schaeffer's. Vehicle is a 1997 Maxima SE 5-Speed which holds 4.25 qts in the transaxle. Vehicle had 96,825 miles with 25,000 miles on the Redline. History is, I changed to Redline MT-90 at around 50k miles, then this latest change. Below are the VOA for Redline...

I've a '97 Maxima SE 5-speed. I'm posting two results done by Schaeffer's. The first is using M1 5W30 and the second is using M1 10W30. Both are for the SuperSyn formulation. I had the 5W30 in during the winter for 3115 miles. I drove 3 miles to work and 3 miles back (including a dusty parking...

I own a '97 Max SE, 2001 SE Miata, 2002 Protege5 and a '96 Astro. I run Mobil 1 in the first three and Castrol GTX in the Astro. I change oil/filter myself at 3k (excessive, I know). I want the first three to run forever but will replace the Astro at some point when reliability gets too bad. My...

At Wally World they've got the Mobil 1 5W-30 "New Car Formulation" and Mobil 1 10W-30 "Vehicles With Greater Than 75,000 miles". I've got a 2001 Miata with 18,000 miles and have started using the above 5W-30. Question - Should I use this year round or should I use a 10W-30 in the summer? Same...