Recent content by racer12306

Thanks How much of a process is changing the fluid on this transmission? It's been a great piece up until a couple thousand miles ago.

Van has just under 105,000 miles on it. No, the fluid has not been changed or checked. I don't believe it's readily serviceable, I know there's a widget that I can make, maybe buy, to check the fluid level. This is the ZF9 transmission. The transmission does not want to shift, but as simple as...

This right here is the true "secret." But there are always scum that will take anything they think they can peddle for a few bucks. Unfortunately, hotel cleaning staff are usually very low on the pay scale so the opportunity is high.

I've stayed in a couple peoples share of hotels between 2008 and 2019, never had anything stolen. More proud of my stat of never leaving something in a room on checkout.

RCS is a more secure and enhanced message. Not everyone supports it, which is probably why your phone starts in SMS/MMS mode until until the initial handshake is complete and RCS is recognized by both devices. The short story: SMS bad RCS good iMessage good

Hope you get some positive news. Taking it down to 6% is further than many here would go, I run to 0% :oops:

I'm not sure what I'm more concerned about. The fact that this happened. or Your title says "another"

I agree, E85 is pretty sporadic here

I could get on board with 20k on my old Neon, easy peasy, right on top. Those things only like fresh copper plugs anyways. On anything I have now, absolutely not. I got lucky and had someone else do our van while the intake was already off 2 years ago. I've started eyeing my truck and the back...

Unsweetened Black Tea, I'll say...

Yes Former: 1qt/5000miles Current: 1/4qt/5000ish miles Just one data point, but it's absolutely improved.

Sorry, lost that. Running M1 EP HM 0w20. Not sure the wife will thank me, she wouldn't be opposed to a new car :ROFLMAO:

2017 Pacifica 3.6L Pentastar ~104,000 miles currently Brief history: I have used PP0w20 at OLM intervals (approx 10k) since we got it at around 40/45k. Past life was a rental iirc. Over the last several oil changes, It would use 1qt/5000 miles Don't remember exactly why I made the change. I...

Oil Analyzers gives good reports. Do not use Blackstone if you're concerned about accurate fuel dilution. Is this the engine that dilutes like crazy on 87 but tends to dilute less with higher octane? I think I read something about that somewhere, probably here, but don't know anything about...

I was thinking that too. Especially the perfect circle with the blowout