Patman
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If you’re rotating your tires at home and it costs you nothing that’s fine but for people who actually pay for rotations, most of aren’t really getting their moneys worth in the long run
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It also avoids the risk of road noise from rotating too late.
At least in the US, it's pretty common for tire shops to include for free or minimal extra cost a lifetime rotation and balance package and even road hazard warranty. Costco for example includes this for free. Discount Tire includes rotation and balance for free with road hazard at a small fee. I always get it. I make an appointment, and before I've even had a cup of coffee and read the news for a bit, I'm ready to go. It's also close to my house.
Also, which tires did you get 63k miles out of??
Patman
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They were called Minerva All Season Master, but despite the name they are actually All Weather tires, not all seasons.
Those might be Canada-only sadly. Impressive run!
Patman
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I now have Nokian WRG5 and they are rated for 100,000 km so maybe I will beat that number
That is what I do with my 2010 Prius. It averages out to around 4,300 miles per six month oil change. A lot of the third gen engines are known for oil burning starting around 100K miles. The thing is most of those oil burning issues are in the vehicles where the owners went to Toyota's recommended 10K mile oil changes. I have close to 130K on mine and it uses zero oil between oil changes.
My old 1994 Civic manual coupe from college averaged around 40mpg until the day I dumped her when the head gasket went up a second time. I really, really wish I wasn't young and stupid and had taken care of the maintenance on that car because today I would drive nothing else around town even at her 300+k miles.
Similar here. Had a 92 Hatchback Civic VX with the lean burning engine…I could drive it however I wanted and got 35MPG. Purchased at 230,000 miles and eventually had the head gasket go. Replaced it, but it was stolen before turning over 300k. It was a very neglected engine from PO, but still got better gas mileage than my Honda fit does.
I’m on a second OCI with VRP about 1K in. My oil level hasn’t moved. The first time, it was down 3mm on the dipstick, I needed to top off at 2K with .5qt.
118 pages on this post now makes me wonder it it's a contender for the longest in BITOG history.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
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Yeah, I was thinking along those lines when it hit about page 50 or so..... Who knew!?
Never expected anything to top all of our Mobil1 pages and pages....
Sure, why not 119 ?
This is one of my go-to posts when I've been away a while. Always something good in here!
SammyChevelleTypeS3
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Been seeing several Valvoline Instant Oil Change facilities opening up in my area since this time last year.
These are owned by an American company and are a separate entity from the Valvoline lubricants company which is owned by the Saudi state owned company Aramco.
It appears VRP could potentially have an effect on the coating of the black type Toyota OEM crusher washers. I have both the black and blue types on hand so I will be doing more testing. First time this has happened and it’s the first run of VRP for reference.
As I’ve said before, I think VRP is an intriguing product, but we still don’t know what we don’t know yet.
As I’ve said before, I think VRP is an intriguing product, but we still don’t know what we don’t know yet.
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