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Originally Posted By: coolbird101 What's the humidity like there? your house needs to be below 60% or mold can grow. Maybe a humidistat would be the answer. I'm in the desert part of Greater LA. So, humidity will hover near zero when I'll be gone. I have one of those annoying "Smart"...

I'm leaving for Zurich Switzerland this Friday. I will not be back for 5 months. I live in Los Angeles. I would like to keep the Air Conditioning off, but I'm worried about mold. If I lived in Florida, I would have to bite the bullet and keep the air conditioning on. Otherwise, I may come back...

Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete, I remember you On a modern BMW, this is more complicated than one would think. Once the battery is disconnected, a lot of the electronics in the car go bonkers and it typically requires a visit to the BMW dealer to have the battery synced up with the car and...

Originally Posted By: JimPghPA One of the things to consider is that every car battery eventually someday will go bad. What if that battery normal end of life occurs during the time you have it stored away for the few months? Some chargers get hot if connected to a dead battery and ran. So if...

I placed an order for a CTEK. I thought about just having BMW pay for a new battery when I got back, but that felt a little unethical (almost as unethical as the amount of money BMW made off of me ) Say Hey to Eiron for me (if he's still around)

Originally Posted By: GearHeadTool Still, though. IMHO, there is NO WAY a large enough amount of gasses can accumulate on a true smart charger, such as a CTEK. A normal charger? No way. I do have a smart charger. It's a Schumacher SC-6500A. Is the CTEK much better? I'm willing to buy a new...

Quote: 90% of the time, it WON'T be charging, so whatever normal ventilation your garage has.. is fine. The garage is not ventilated. I live in an apartment. My garage is very small and no ventilation (that I know of).

Hey guys, It's been years since I've been here. This is not an oil related topic, but I like the people on this site and people here are always very helpful. I now drive an E89 BMW Z4. I have to leave on a business trip for 4 to 6 months. I do have a nice trickle charger and a garage. However...

I'm sorry if this is a silly question, but do you think Dark Matter could be nothing more than a bunch of black holes? The definition I found for dark matter on Wikipedia is "dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that does not emit or reflect enough electromagnetic radiation to be...

Originally Posted By: ericthepig I believe it's pretty well accepted (and there are articles in some Lube journals on this) that ALL the big players and most of the small players are now blending grp III and PAO base stocks in their synth product lines (and some have gone 100% grp III - eg, PP)...

It used to be that Exxon Mobil had to add esters to Mobil 1 to cause seal swell. Does it still need to do it now that they're blending with Group III? Cheers, Jae

A few months ago, there was a WWW-wide rumor that Mobil 1 was switching to Group III base stock. I did a search on this site but for the life of me I cannot find the old threads on this topic. I asked my trusted sources and they all say that the stories of Mobil 1 switching to Group III were...

Don't worry. I was a slow learner on manual transmission also, but now I'm what you might call an expert. I have some advice. 1) Treat the clutch like an on off switch during regular driving. You can half depress it during slow parking lot maneuvers to control speed more accurately than with...

New York Times claims that it checks all of its sources and only prints them when they are "ready". Are these people serious? Does NY Times expect us to have such short attention spans such that we would have completely forgotten about Jayson Blair already? And rule of thumb that has worked...

Originally Posted By: Kestas The warming periods are somewhat of an aberration. I guess we should count our blessings. Why can't "experts" just claim that they just don't know? Why can't they just say that global climate is just too complicated to predict for anything more than a week or...

Originally Posted By: pcoxe The resulting weather models require the Arctic to be an open sea, providing the necessary moisture source to fuel snow storms across North America. That makes more sense. Salt water freezes at lower temperature than fresh water. But the argument relating to...

I hope you don't think this is a political issue. The claim that global warming may lead to an ice age does not make a lot of sense to me. The argument goes as follows: The increasing temperature causes the ice covering much of Greenland to melt. The fresh water coming off of Greenland...

What weighs more? A kilogram of oil or a kilogram of helium? Note that I said kilogram. This question is a variation of "What weighs more? A ton of feathers or a ton of rocks?" Well the answer depends on how you define a ton and how you measure a kilogram. Is it a metric ton? Did you measure...

Shell Rotella synthetic is fake synthetic (group III) and is $3.5/qt, which is cheaper than Mobil 1. Shell Rotella synthetic is a good oil.

I just had oil change done on my Kawasaki ZX-6R motorcycle, and the synthetic oil the dealership used was $10 a quart The bottle says that the oil is 100% synthetic and that it has some esters. The oil is made for Kawasaki by Motul. I also have heard that the additive package in motorcycle...