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I'm just enjoying my popcorn reading the thread.... I'm hoping people return to 3000 mile intervals. It's still good for my retirement investments. Ha! All kinds of erroneous equivalents & logical inconsistency. Dunning-Kruger effect. Kind of reminds me of High Skewl when some FULLY...

Mavester gets this stuff !!! I really appreciate all the people that are changing their oil a lot. It helped with my retirement. There's a lot of superstition around lubrication oil/PCMO. And a lot of history kinda reenforces some of this misinformation. And is often case don't confuse...

OMG Our fleet cars in my first job back in 1984 was Ford Fairmont in the same blue color. Use often it was at a Bomb plant...yea the big one... FAIRMONT DEF NOT A BETTER FORD IDEA ugh Light blue 4-cylinder automatics with no options no AC other than an aftermarket emergency one-way radio--in...

Ladder racks are overrated...

THIS. Octane is a molecule. Source - Retired ChemE for one of world largest oil companies...me. Ramble_ON Almost all the hydrocarbon interface and bottom's garbage that is combustible in a gasoline terminal goes into the RUL FYI. Dilution is the solution ! Did not even affect the octane...

These threads are always a little bit amusing to me. Because people have genuine concerns and all of a sudden they're comparing rates. That perhaps interesting in the broadest of possible senses, but in the USA rates are determined by your state insurance regulators there is no national thing...

FWIW I agree 100%. As well as cost CAFE (used to?) rule too...and missed CAFE is def a cost ask Stelantis(spell?)... Tires are much better. A lot better. Think about the choices between bias ply, bias belted, and those fancy radials IRRC… Dad had some Firestone 500 LOL. Yeah everybody got it...

I'm not gonna comment on the orange man impact. But I can think a little bit like a Brand Manager from previous life. I am in agreement. The LARIAT is not quite as luxurious as I would want it with accessories, passenger seat, home link there are a few other things where they cheeped out, but...

As Lee Corso said, "Not so fast, my friend…!!". Spare tires are no longer 100% common -- if they are there, they reduce the size to the minimum that will work and not destroy the gear etc from a slight offset to differing rotational diameters over a reasonable in-use period. Engineers & their...

Usually, when you see this odd stuff, it's the interface of annual goals for the Engineers to cut costs to interface with the Marketing department and the Brand Manager for the vehicle. It also depends on the component suppliers and their capabilities and cost. Depending on the winds and the...

Ha! Texcao made DEALER buy them as I recall... assuming Texaco did...had to pay for the Metropolitan Opera -- fun fact, the Senior Executives lived in White Plains - though they should've lived in Texas. With the body of the company and the center of gravity of their business. Not well run but...

I would agree. However, I have not been able to find a non-Chinese source for sliced water chestnuts. Green bean casserole just is not the same. I guess it’s a calculated risk !

Boy, I understand the economics. But Chinese tires just no thanks. Ever. In the past, they slipped in as trailer tires under an exception in import rules. They had issues. I'm old enough to remember the old Firestone 500s in the United States --- at least there was an American company and an...

Unfortunately, this is sometimes tho less so now a new car *Dealer* thing. Usually, if you specifically ask the Service Advisor to use the factory oil or the branded oil they will. Some places might use the branded bulk OE oil and a less expensive unbranded oil. Though usually they will...

AMEN - Retired Chemical Engineer from Chevron(Texaco, CalTex affiliated with Oronite Additives too) Lubricants w/ Fuels for a bit as well...so yeah believe me if u want... Just use a quality ILSAC oil of OEM spec viscosity at OEM intervals + a branded filter. This means a reputable brand with...