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    Yellow color valvoline ?? Help needed with oil leak....

    I remember reading somewhere valvoline makes oils in different colors. Bottom of the oil pan area is showing leaks, but not sure where it is coming from. Car is at 149 K miles, but has not used HM oil before. Here is my plan to find out where the leak is coming from ...... Need comments.... Get...
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    Royal Purple Oil filter with Dino oil ??

    Hello everyone, Nice to be back on bitog.com (which is a different website now). On my 2008 Honda civic, at 140 K miles, i put in a Royal purple oil filter, with Chevron brand Dino oil. Under the assumption that i can run this filter for extended miles, i did one oil change (using the same...
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    Window tint & paint protection on New car

    Bought a new car for my kid, and I did a preliminary search of forums to find what window tint to apply. I also did a bit of looking into paint protection, because kids in CA tend to key or scratch the paint on purpose. Here is the initial information i have found. Any further input on these...
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    Experts - Diagnose Engine Knock&belt area noise

    Hi BITOG mechanical experts, With considerable time investment, i have learnt quite a bit from this forum. So, I also spend time, trying to give back to this forum things that i have found in my research lately (on other threads). Currently, I am trying to fix a bunch of things in my car and...
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    Major maintenance & photos of Purolator air filter

    I have a 1996 Nissan Altima that is about to get major maintenance within few weeks, at 115k miles. I have posted some details in the following thread. Since this is maintenance forum, i wanted to get opinion of people from here too. I am undecided on the air filter images, so the original...
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    Couple of bugs in forum....

    I have been using this forum for a few months now, and have noticed the following problems under my Windows XP machine. The icon for "create a list" while typing a new message does not work properly. When i click on it, there is a window popup to type the list items. This window has a message...
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    Used oil Analysis related - sample collection Q

    I wanted to post this question at BTOG Sponsors forum, but i could not find Blackstone answering any questions there (which is where my sample is going to). So, I searched and found another thread that is related to my issue, so i posted my picture and question there. Did not want to post it in...
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    Beyond Haynes manual - suggetions needed

    I am sure this question has been asked here before, but i could not find any in my search (the search is not powerful enough, and i will write to admin about it). Neither could i find any stickies, related to common maintenance questions. Haynes manual gives a list of maintenance items to do...
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    Honda air filter images - what would you do here?

    Here are the images of my 2008 civic, OEM air filter. This filter has 25K - 45K miles on it; i really forget the exact milage. I was about to replace it today, when i noticed that one side of the filter was near new in condition. I have shown the dirty side as well as the clean side in images...
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