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Hi all. After owning our Corolla cross for 9 month, I had a weird experience yesterday. Luck was that the only parking space available was one where the left rear wheel was sitting on a curb while the other wheels was on the road. When opening and closing the tailgate, it felt different, and...

Hi all. All over the internet, partly also on this forum. People are having a hard time accepting thiner and thinner oil. I have read a lot of arguments for and against thin oils. But..are there actually any cases where engines have reliability problems. Where it is proven it is because of...

Hi all. This weekend I will be changing to summer tyres on the family corolla cross. My last car where too low to actually get my trolley jack under the subframe. And therefore I used the pinch welds. But after 8 years of changing tires. The pinch welds was getting bend. On the corolla...

Hi all. First of all. It is very important for me to point out that I absolutely don't mean to Hurt or critize big people. Obisity is a thing running in my own family. And I am a fat guy myself as well. I earlier wrote a post about a worry I had for my big build Freind ruining my seats...

Hi all. This is a bit weird question. But here it comes. A friend of mine has got a new job, and it would make sense to drive together to save money. First of all I would like to clearly point out. That this is in no way an attempt to hurt og bash heavy people. Obesity is running in my own...

Hi all. We recently got a Corolla cross hybrid, and today we where driving with the wife behind the wheel. Brake down to a red light, at almost stand still. She accidentally hit the gas and brake at the same time. The engine reved a bit and the car was moving forward with noise from the...

Hi all. I recently bought a Corolla Cross hybrid. My first hybrid. I have noticed that when the car is driving slow and in city trafic where it mostly runs on electricity. The coolant temp will drop, or fluctuate a bit. When the engine starts it will come back up to normal temp pretty fast...

Hi all. Earlier this week i picked up a slightly used Corolla cross Hybrid. Today I checked the oil. The oil itself was nice and clean. But the dipstick left som grey markings on the paper. It was not from the oil. But looked like it was a thin layer on the dipstick itself. The car has...

Hey. I know that brake cleaner can hurt some plastics. But anyone who knows if it is okay to use it cleaning plastic oils filter caps and other engine plastics? Anyone who has experienced brake cleaner actuality hurting oil filter caps or other engine plastics? thanks in advance. Have a nice...

Hallo all. So... I own a 2014 Toyota Auris 1.6. Valvematic. I had it serviced at 3 different Toyota dealers, 5 times in all. 4 of them here in Denmark where I live, and one time in the Netherlands on a drive to Belgium for vacation. One thing I have observed, and that frankly bothers me...

Being Danish.. we are used to very very flat roads, but currently we are on a car vacation to southern France, and driving on steep hills is rather new to me.. today I drove down a 30% downhill driveway so steep my front bumber scraped a bit at the bottom. It made me wonder how steep a road a...

Hi all. Recently, after cleaning my dashboard. I have started using the used dirty dashboard wipes for a quick cleaning of rubber and plastic parts in the engine bay. They give a pretty good result on engine covers, intake boxes and so on. But I came to think about if it would be okay to use...

Good evening all. So I am about to help a nabour putting on his winter tyres. Unfortunately the jacking points down by the panel are rusted out and too soft to lift at. At the front I can lift at the subframe. At the rear the only place I can see is the lower control arm under the...

So.. I have noticed something. Had my car serviced at the local Toyota dealer today. Nd the car came back 1 cm overfilled.. it happened too the last time, it has happened several times for friends and family as well, is it just me. Or is it like dealers/shops very often end up overfilling the...

Hi all. 6 month ago we bought a 3 year old Toyota with a 1.6 valvematic engine. The engine runs great and is a really nice engine. But one thing bothered me..a lot. The engine had a faint but really noticeable knocking sound from the cylinderhead/valvetrain. It goes away above 1000 rpm's...

Hi all. As i wrote in a threat yesterday. My car has a overfill that is About 1 cm on the dipstick. Today i saw Really Really tiny bubbles on the dipstick. But only on one side of the dipstick. And no foam. Do people think those bubbles are a result of the oil being wipped by the crankshaft...

Hi all. Is it a problem that the engineoil is overfilled by the dealer. It is 1 cm over Max . We saw it when checking the oil during a 1100 km. Roadtrip. It has driven 4000 km with the level that way. Søren

How many of you people here can say they had 1 or several bad experiences with a particular brand of oil ? If there is something I have learned from reading this great forum. It is that all the major brands make good oil. Therefore I have used most of the major well known brands. All with...

Hi all. Bought a used Toyota Auris, and the dealer gave it a service before delivering it to us. They used genuine Toyota 5w-30 oil. I know that Toyota 0w-20 has a lot of fans on this forum..but can I assume that the 5w-30 is also a decent oil? The shop manager told me it was a Mobil1 oil...

Hallo. Got our car back from a service today, and they have topped up the coolant. Now..when hot it is filled to 7-10 mm above the MAX line. I know it is rarely a good idea to owerfill any fluid. But should I worry? He cooling system is with a pressurized expansiontank. At least..they used the...