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i meant castrol GTX manufactured since '01, standard white bottle. i read somewhere that "old" gtx left some discoloration in the valvetrain as well as on the dipstick if used for years and years. i was now wondering if GTX has been reformulated (now with sythetic guard?).

hi all i've a quart of mobil1 5w-50 lying around here. if i mix this with 3 quarts of havoline 5w-30, what viscosity will i end up with? 5w-40? is it ok if i even do it all? i mean, that extra quart's too expensive to just use in my lawnmow

i've already put it in as a replacement for the usual green honda coolant, which had run for the last 40,000 km. now prior to changing coolant, my coolant temp used to read normal. there's a small, wave like drawing in the temp gauge and the needle always ran at or below that wave. now it's...

my sister's beater - a 96 civic automatic with a 1.5 non-vtec engine, needs a good dino, if there are any good enough, to last her until 10,000 kms, or 1 year of driving in mixed conditions. this car is abused and gets virtually no maintenance apart from oil changes every 10,000 kms using...

hi all, i live in southeast asia. we only have three types of havoline oils here: fully synthetic 5-40, formula 20-50, and a newer one, havoline energy semi synthetic at 5-30. does north america have this havoline "energy" variant? is it any good? i'm guessing it's just plain 5w-30 marketed...

hello gentlemen. since synthetic oil choices here in southeast asia is somewhat limited to a few petroleum companies, most of us here think mobil or western brands are exotic formulations too good for our econo cars. so in the quest for a cost effective oil change i came across a well-known a...

anyone here from southeast asia? ever heard of VIC oil filters? how are they? they're all over parts supply stores here - and short of buying a filter from the dealerships, VIC seems the way to go here in the Philippines. did a search but can't find VIC filters. Fram isn't available here in the...

hello all, new here. i live in the philippines and i drive a 1999 crv with the b20z engine. this summer (mar-apr-may), my wife and i had planned a gruelling, overland journey across the length of the philippine's luzon island to samar island - short of 1,000 kilometers one way in extermely hot...