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I've been running A3/B4 oils in our XC70 and H3 for years at 5K intervals. I took a liking to A3/B4's years ago when frequenting this forum around the time of the green German Castrol 0W30 "craze." I recently added a 2012 S60 T6 to our fleet of oddball cars and fed it the same for its first oil...

I just acquired 4 more GM original rims for my H3. I intend to put 315/75-16 rubber on it all around, on all 9 rims. A set of 5 for 3+ season use, and a set of 4 winter/snow/ice dedicated tires. The options for dedicated snow/ice tires in this size are limited. I'm looking for anyone who can...

I just bought a new-to-me used 09 Hummer H3 with ~65K miles. I'll be swapping all fluids in the coming months as part of routine new-ownership maintenance. The manual transmission calls for GM 89021806. "75W-90 GL-3" The Aisin AR-5 transmission is also found in several years of isuzu...

Having just gone and checked all these out. I come home and find that I can buy Mahle brand (volvo OE) filters online for about $5 each... Given those options, vs the $5 OE filter I'm leaning towards ordering about a half dozen OE filters. Of the bunch from the pictures above. The Fram is very...

The vehicle has 94.5K miles on it (just bought it). Likely has the original fluid (volvo specifies "lifetime" factory fill, haha), which still has some red hue left in its brownish color and does not smell burnt. I think we're still at a safe place to begin this tranny on fresh fluids/cleanup...

We just bought a 2005 XC70 with 94K miles on it. The car is in great shape and the drive-line runs strong. I'd like to keep it that way till 200K+. This car has the B5254T2, A 2.5L 5 cylinder VVT with low pressure water cooled turbo. By turbo standards, I wouldn't expect this engine to be hard...

Wasn't so many years ago, that Auto-RX was very heavily discussed here. I just tried looking through several pages here in the additives, and doing searches many ways, can't come up with anything. So what happened? Was it proven to be some sort of hoax? Is the stuff still considered useful...

My Wife wants a new-to-her car. The budget is anywhere from ~$5,000-12,000, but we'd prefer to stay under $8000. She wants AWD, heated seats, crossover profile, tan leather/wood interior, quiet/smooth non-fatiguing ride/drive quality. I want a dependable primary drive-line that isn't a gas...

Ok... so just kinda asking for anyones thoughts on this. My Fieance drives a Kia Rio that was given to her by her father, who maintained it with Castrol 10W40 GTX for most of it's life with 2-3K mile changes. It's at about 110K if I recall. I've decided, with her driving routine (a few times a...

So we bought a snowblower this last winter. It's an 11.5HP tecumseh engine on an Ariens blower. It's awesome.. What's interesting, is that the manual specifically mentions 0W30 synthetic as one of the recommended oil weights. I couldn't resist. Our snowblower is now GC happy! Anyone else using...

I was hesitant to even post this, because around here this stuff is the holy grail second to GC. I bought like 6 bottles of ARX about 2 years ago and have treated 2 cars with it over that time. here's an original thread from when things got started...

did a search for omstar, nothing. So I guess this hasn't been discussed yet. http://www.freefuelsaver.net/ cheesy site, #@$%! video, yadiadia, seems like the typical wannabe FP that promises everything and delivers next to nothing. probably is... but I thought it would be worth bringing up a...

So... I have a lot of friends who just don't care as much about their cars as they ought to... So when i get the chance, I invite them over for an oil change... I was visiting a friend the other night, and asked him if he had ever gotten around to changing the oil in the jeep he bought about a...

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The column on the right was the sample taken awhile back- before doing 2 full ARX cycles (clean, rinse, clean, rinse)... Teryy and I discussed the high copper and lead in the original sample- and he is pretty sure it was the result of "Engine Restore" addative- which I had used around...

Ok... It's been quite a few months since I have been around on here... I have been doing ARXing on both my cars... and finally have the results in from my suzuki swift.... Both the clean and rinse cycles were done with Castrol GTX 5w30, clean phase 1500 miles, rinse phase 2000... Not sure if...

going to kinda recap a series of events... to get the ball rolling (many of you are familiar with these events from my other posts)... 1. purchase 1995 isuzu rodeo with 144,000 miles in summer of 2004. *rodeo begins ticking shortly thereafter. *burns about 1qt/1000miles at time of purchase. *I...

http://www.dieselsecret.com/ I did a search on here, didn't come up with anything. maybe i'm searching for the wrong things? Is this a gimmik? tear it apart. I have interest in bio-diesel in the future, i'm kinda laxidaisily exploring the possabilities. (I plan on my next vehicle being a...

Ok... So, i've been around here on BITOG for awhile, and have become pretty familiar with the oils on discussion, and why people like/dislike certain oils. I've even become a bit of a GC nut with a shelf full of it in the garage as a result(bout 50 quarts remaining). I'm starting to become more...

http://theoildrop.server101.com/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=3&t=002978 there's the link to the analysis... The copper and lead scares me, a lot..... I'm really happy not to be seeing any antifreeze in there. other values look pretty good. TBN is excellent, but the oil that was added...