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This is a rather disturbing thread if this turns out to be a common issue. Chewing up brake pads every 30k is not my idea a of a good time.

Mavericks are starting to show up on dealer lots now as inventory so if I could find one that had what I wanted on it I certainly would have gone that route provided the dealer was legit and prices fair. I searched and nothing came up with the options I wanted. So I decided I better just order...

While true there are actually laws about what your cell phone carrier can and cannot do. However it is those apps that you install that are the wild west. Everyone has choices to make about what they install, what they give permissions to, and if they are going to carry a phone or not. Some...

There is good reason to hang onto or to get a Garmin. Just don't install their app and pair it to the GPS or you are back into a very similar situation.

Sadly Ford loves to confuse people and can't figure out how to label/brand the options. There are currently 3, yes 3 iterations of Co-Pilot360. There is a Co-Pilot360 that is included standard now with the truck which sounds like what you have. You have to option up to Co-Pilot360 1.0 if you...

I am still waiting on my truck, but the things that I wish were offered were some of the other paint colors like the orange and cactus grey. Ford needs to offer the zone lighting even in work truck trims as an option on the Maverick. Some of us actually work with our trucks and there are some...

You are absolutely right. I think Lake likes to say something along the lines of "they may meet the spec, but within that group even C students pass and get the degree, there are a variety of students that have the API spec on their product and some a A students, some are B students, some are C...

I am waiting for my truck to be built, but I think I am going to call it ManBearPig. It's sereal...

I think if you look at the Industry 4.0(revolution) roadmap the full automation of everything manufacturing is the plan. Right now that is the big push for change and we are laying the bricks in all sectors and not just industrial. There will be some new jobs created surrounding the new work...

Actually Lake says they don't rebuild those NASCAR engines each race anymore. He says they run them 4-5 races now between rebuilds. It is a whole new paradigm in racing. GM is about to be challenged on their "fix". They are about to eat the cost of up to 700k new engines(some think it is...

I don't think anyone here is saying people can't run a higher viscosity oil. The question is should you? And what is the cost. If you are pulling the samples and happy with the results then fantastic. I am glad you are happy with the results. What Lake is saying in this video is not the...

Lake will tell you that if you are doing extreme duty cycles on your oil to get it tested. If the wear metals come back too high then the answer may be a different oil for a better additive package, or it may mean moving up to a higher viscosity oil and test it again to see if that addresses...

To me that is a different conversation. "Can you vs should you" Then look at Lake's own vehicle oil choices for his own vehicles. I think it tells you a lot. Base that choice on data. Run that oil analysis and decide if going with a more viscus oil is going to actually benefit you. Can you...

I like Lake, and I consume a lot of his content, but I think he is trolling a little bit here wearing his Tribologist hat/shirt and talking out of both sides of his mouth and he knows it. You have to do some Paul Harvey here on this GM situation and now for the rest of the story. When asking...

This data grabbing is broad. Even if you shut down the telematics in the vehicle, if it gets connected to your phone it in fact scoops up your phone data and the data onboard the car and sends it back to the mothership. The vehicle will use any connectivity to transmit the data. Don't connect...

I had something similar happen to me with a Chevy Bolt EV. I pulled the Onstar fuse on the car once I found out that Onstar had been caught red handed selling peoples data even after they had opted out of the services, AND I found in the fuse box an additional tracker that was installed by the...

I think anyone in IT or a technical field knows that it is very hard today to have any semblance of privacy. I think it is good practice to think about it at each place you do business, the people and entities that are collecting data. What are their practices on how they secure that data...

That is exciting! I am still a couple weeks out from my scheduled date so I am trying to be patient. LOL

For a lot of years the underside and fender wells of trucks were exposed and not covered with the plastics and shielding. Sometimes that helps, sometimes that creates more places for muck, water, salt etc to hide and things end up getting eaten up anyway. So I try to use the car wash hand...

Am a sure you already know this, but those use cases for high miles commercial are actually less stressful on engine oil than the typical grocery getter short drive typical commuter type use case. The big fleet operators have started to use technology and testing to determine maintenance...