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I have had good luck by buying 5 year old Civics. Did that first in 2011, paid half of the price of a new one and drove it for ten years and spent next to nothing in repairs. In 2021 I bought my 2016 Civic, also for half the price of a new one and have already added another 106,000 km to it and...

I have had over 20 cars in my life and not one engine or transmission problem on any of them

Change it once a year but save the oil in a clean container and reuse it in a beater car or give it to a neighbor who might need a free oil change.

I haven’t followed the 3000 mile OCI in about twenty years now. I love how much time and money I have saved and haven’t had any engine problems at all. I follow the oil life monitor in both of my cars and it works out to about 7k in the Corvette and 10k in the Civic.

Even without regular fluid changes the CVT in the Civic is pretty reliable for most people. Mine has only had two fluid changes in it's life and the CVT still behaves perfectly. I personally think the way people drive these cars has more to do with how reliable the CVT will be for them. For...

It is entirely their rating system. They use Research Octane Number, so when you see regular gas in Europe that is labeled 91 octane, it's actually only 87 octane under our rating system in North America. The highest octane at the pumps that I've heard of in Europe is 99 octane, but that's...

You won't likely find any over on this side of the pond. But they are pretty huge in Europe. Been around forever and have sold millions of cars there.

In a nutshell, it really does depend on the car in question as well as your driving conditions/habits. I would venture to say that for a good number of cars that call for 0w20, they will get longer engine life than needed (in other words you'll trade the car long before it's engine is going to...

My girlfriend likes to go to bed around midnight on weekends and sleep in until 8 or 9 while I'm falling asleep by 11 and I'm wide awake between 5 or 6am. We don't live together, but I stay at her place 3 nights a week. During Formula 1 season I will usually watch the entire race on Sunday...

If you’re mostly driving it gently on long cruises then M1 5w30 will keep serving you well. But if you like to go full throttle quite often then another option would be M1 ESP 5w30 as it is formulated on the higher end of the 30wt range and has a higher HTHS value of 3.5 vs 3.1 for the standard...

While these would never be my filter of choice, there are better options for the same or less money, I also know that there have been literally millions and millions of cars on the roads that have run these filters over the years without an issue. It's quite possibly the largest selling oil...

You gotta resist that urge to do that, as long as you're doing it reasonably snug by hand it's not going to loosen off. That's the way I've always done it and in almost 40 years of oil changes I've never had a filter come off or leak.

My favorite band, Vanden Plas, just dropped their latest album, so I'm listening to it for the second time this morning. It's awesome!

With so many synthetic oils available for less than $25 a jug I'm surprised anyone would use conventional oil anymore. You really don't save that much at all.

That's the one great thing about Canadian Tire up here, we've always had a good supply of both Ultra Platinum and M1 ESP in the 5qt jugs, and they go on sale quite often too (you'd have to be crazy to buy oil there at full price!) It's just too bad they don't sell Quaker State Ultimate...

One of the reasons why I love Meguiar's Ultimate Fast Finish is because it's the most hydrophobic product I've ever used. I've never had a ceramic coating but this stuff seems to be almost as close as you can get in a regular sealant. Unfortunately they discontinued this product a few years ago...

I never take my Corvette through an automatic wash, I just use those do it yourself coin washes. I don't often drive it in the rain, so I'm mainly just spraying it down once a month to get rid of the dust and then I immediately drive it on the highway to blow most of the water off and then I'll...

One of the reasons why I think my Corvette is going to last a long time is because I never just take it out for short drives. When I start it up, it usually gets driven for a good hour minimum, often times I'll take it out for a few hundred miles.

In talking with the owner's son he told me his dad just used whatever 5w30 synthetic was available at the fast lube places, and that he followed the oil life monitor for the changes

I'm with you on this one, a lot of the C7 Corvette guys swear by catch cans but I'm of the belief that they really aren't necessary. I keep coming back to this 2014 Corvette that I know of with 428,000 miles on it (as of early 2020 that is) and I was talking to the guy's son and that car was...