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The point is: If I had not bothered to repair those cars, I'd have about 13,000 more dollars in my pocket. And the brakes needed new discs & rotors installed. Hence expensive. Water pump/timing belt costs $1200 each time. Yeah I could learn to do some of this stuff myself, just as I learned to...

What is the purpose of this? Okay I'm curious: 2006 Honda Insight, Mobil 1 5w-20 versus 5w-30 versus 0w-40

I just bought a Sustina case for $72. From amazon.com.

Originally Posted By: dlundblad What Im really curious about is if I was to run a 0w30 in the summer... would that be ok? Not saying I was to do it.. Just curious so I can grasp the concept. A 0W-30 is really a 0 weight oil, and it has additives to make it "act" like 30 weight as it gets hot...

Originally Posted By: mikered30 you tube" Trucks tug of war goes too far" for a great laugh. Can't post link because of the language. Americans. They can't afford to buy health insurance (and beg guvmint for help), but they can afford to destroy $30,000 trucks. (rolls eyes) VIDEO Two...

The Libertarian Party is generally anti-tax and would like to repeal all of them, however even the LP supports "use" taxes. Like taxes assessed on gasoline or diesel. If you drive, you are a user of the road, and pay the tax. If you don't use the roads, then you pay nothing.

Originally Posted By: JOD Trying to determine fuel economy from a test ride is utterly ridiculous, and if they're letting you take it on the highway, that should be plenty of time to "see how it rides". Well my testdrive with a used Civic gave me 65mpg, and now that I own the thing, I'm getting...

Originally Posted By: ls1mike Originally Posted By: blackman777 111 gallons * 35mpg == 3800 miles. I would consider it due for a change under "severe" service (city driving or stop/go driving). I don't understand he says he has 22,000 miles on the car. Are you just coming up with an average...

Originally Posted By: Flareside302 Ok pretty simple. I'm having a buddy argue that its not ok to run a 0w30 in place of a 5w30 etc. He's saying its to thin etc for the force at start up. I agree with your buddy. Toyota back-specced 0w-20, 5w-20, or 5w-30 for their Prius G2, but not the G1. Why...

111 gallons * 35mpg == 3800 miles. I would consider it due for a change under "severe" service (city driving or stop/go driving).

I hope not..... not for a brand-new car! Those other two broken-down cars were troublefree during their first 130,000 miles. (And then they started hitting me with expensive repairs.) And if the Nissan did breakdown somewhere around 130,000, I'd just trade it for another new car (rather than...

I bought a manual shift Civic Hybrid for $8000 (taxed). Those two dealers lost a sale, but a private seller gained one. The Civic is not as much fun as a CRZ, but definitely better than a Prius (which has no stick shift). With the way the Federal Reserve is rapidly increasing the money supply &...

One quart would still be enough to keep the engine lubricated. But I wonder what the rental agency would do if the Customer was unaware, and kept driving the car until it seized? They'd probably try to stick the customer with the ~20,000 dollar bill of replacing the car, or 5000 bill to replace...

Honda, Ford, GM, Nissan have all published letters to their mechanics which state "do not perform engine flushes" or transmission flushes or fuel injector cleaners. They say such flushes may kill or damage an engine or transmissions or injectors. (In other words, no "engine cleaning" additives...

Toyota does "not" recommend an engine flush, but that doesn't make it okay. Since I don't see it listed as a recommendation, I won't use either the flush or 0W-xx oil. See this video: http://youtu.be/MsLKNdebB6Q There HAS to be a reason why Toyota said 0W-20 is okay for Prius G2 and G3, but not...

I have seen engine temps climb when going over mountains. It made me glad I put-in 5w-30 instead of the manual recommendation. Originally Posted By: Clevy Originally Posted By: blackman777 QUOTE:"The bad news is the about 30% reduction in engine life (from 100,000 miles or 10 years to 70,000...

Diesels are higher compression. Maybe the piston/cylinder is "tighter" and doesn't allow the fuel to get into the oil. Or maybe it's because gasoline is thin, so it more easily gets past the piston/cylinder interface into the oil (where diesel fuel would be blocked).

Is 50% overfill a bad thing? Watch the vid of dishonest EZlube and JiffyLube shops: http://youtu.be/wiCAJ8ULnaI And destruction via "flushes": http://youtu.be/MsLKNdebB6Q

And $400,000 in the bank.

P.S. During the last 100 years, governments killed 150 million of their OWN citizens. (About 5 million of those were killed by the US or state governments.) Trusting an entity with that kind of record seems foolish to me. Even if the present government is an angel on earth, what about a future...