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I discovered I have a gouge in the sidewall of one of my tires, this probably happened a few/several days ago when I accidentally drove over a corner curb. Anyway, I'll most probably take it to a tire shop for evaluation (there's one not far from me that seems reasonable), but I was hoping more...

To preface, I do these to satisfy my curiosity more than anything else, but this looks like a nice boring report to me. This was actually the second OCI on Kendall GT-1 Synth Blend 5w20, I am now on my third fill of that oil. The engine really does seem to like this oil and runs unbelievably...

Took my Sorento in for an oil change and to get one or two minor concerns checked. As it is up around 15k miles the dealership decided to do a "multipoint checkup" which turned into the service writer bringing my air filter out because it was "dirty." I asked if something had changed, if the...

I did this UOA largely to satisfy my curiosity. My commute is going to be changing from ~15 miles round trip to ~60 miles round trip so running out to the owner's manual guidance of 7500 miles is going to start becoming desirable. Wanted to see if QSGB would be up to the challenge in my engine...

So with my shiny new Sorento I decided that to keep tabs on how things go with the engine I'd start getting UOAs done. Has a little over 8k miles on the clock so far. Here's the first UOA which was done by Blackstone, no surprises to me as the engine is still brand new; I'm switching over to...

So I've been reading here in the forum for a little while now and am looking for a recommendation.. Have been using Quaker State conventional oil. Recently during a discussion with the mechanic I use it was suggested I move over to synthetic, for the longer change intervals and well he seemed to...