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![]() From: Kurt Weiske (1:218/700) To: n/a Date: Wed, 30 December 2020 SGR Expedition Van I'm in love with this vehicle - it's a soviet era design, a 4WD van with a little 4 cylinder engine, jacked up, all terrain tires, with a full roof rack, winch, push bars, ladder and rear-mounted ... |
![]() From: Bob Roberts (1:218/840) To: n/a Date: Mon, 14 December 2020 Fixing cars KW> I sold my wife's 2014 Subaru Crosstrek, as much as I liked driving it, KW> I preferred my 2014 Prius Plug-in. Gets twice the gas mileage too. Did you get a good price for it? I read th... |
![]() From: Kurt Weiske (1:218/700) To: n/a Date: Wed, 04 November 2020 Compression testing with a multimeter? I'm watching Scotty Kilmer on YouTube, talking about checking out used cars. He hooked up a compression tester to check the compression, then said a quick and dirty way of checking was to get a m... |
![]() From: Kurt Weiske (1:218/700) To: n/a Date: Sat, 31 October 2020 Weekend Repairs I had a productive morning. My wife's Mazda CX-9 had had a front end mishap at one point, and the bumper fascia has popped out of the body. I found a Mazda parts site that sold the retainer clip,... |
![]() From: Mike Powell (1:2320/105) To: n/a Date: Thu, 29 October 2020 Dash Cameras This message was from DUMAS WALKER to ALL, originally in conference Entertain and was forwarded to you by DUMAS WALKER. ------------------------- Does anyone here have experien... |
![]() From: Kurt Weiske (1:218/700) To: n/a Date: Tue, 27 October 2020 Fixing cars I sold my wife's 2014 Subaru Crosstrek, as much as I liked driving it, I preferred my 2014 Prius Plug-in. Gets twice the gas mileage too. I'd bought my wife a 2011 Mazda CX-9 a while ago, as we ne... |
![]() From: Kurt Weiske (1:218/700) To: n/a Date: Wed, 16 September 2020 Best purchase ever We had a couple of stains on our furniture, and bought a Bissell steam carpet/upholstery cleaner. This is one of those smaller. more portable canister models, not the upright carpet cleaner. It did ... |
![]() From: Kurt Weiske (1:218/700) To: n/a Date: Wed, 19 August 2020 Switching... I've got a 2014 Prius plug-in with 146K miles; it's been a great car. The multimedia/bluetooth/MP3/apps have been great, my office had free charging and I've got an 80-mile round-trip commute. Fr... |
![]() From: Mark Redden (1:2320/105) To: n/a Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 hummer i saw the new hummer its smaller but nice --- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux * Origin: ILink * capitolcityonline.net (1:2320/105) ... |
![]() From: Kurt Weiske (1:218/700) To: n/a Date: Sat, 02 March 2019 Tesla Model 3 online The Tesla model 3s are apparently available for order. An interesting car for $35K, although one thing that irked me was that the web site shows a price that includes "fuel savings" and "tax benefits"... |
![]() From: Doug Cooper (1:227/702) To: n/a Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 Thoughts on the new Hummer? www.caranddriver.com/news/a30898104/gmc-hummer-ev-confirmed-2022/ Looks pretty sweet. Glad to see the brand back, but miss the old. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Windows/32) * Origin: The U... |
![]() From: kurt weiske (1:229/310) To: n/a Date: Sat, 21 September 2019 Oil Change RK> It definitely depends on the vehicle. My diesel truck has a recommended RK> oil change interval of 15,000 miles. Many people have told me that I am RK> crazy doing oil changes at such a long int... |
![]() From: Ron Kinney (1:104/115) To: n/a Date: Thu, 20 June 2019 Oil Change Re: Oil Change By: mark lewis to Ron Kinney on Tue Jun 18 2019 03:28 pm > holy geez, man! that is really whack... i've seen similar but was wrapped in > another project and was unable to watch it... |
![]() From: mark lewis (1:3634/12.73) To: n/a Date: Tue, 18 June 2019 Oil Change On 2019 Jun 18 08:07:54, you wrote to me: >> are you talking about the two nuts on top of the coil where the two >> wires that provide power and ground are connected? >> >> https://upload.wiki... |
![]() From: Ron Kinney (1:104/115) To: n/a Date: Tue, 18 June 2019 Oil Change Re: Oil Change By: mark lewis to Ron Kinney on Thu Jun 13 2019 01:42 pm > yeah... maybe 15, even... > > RK> This job took me all weekend. I knew I was in trouble when I unscrewed > RK> the bo... |
![]() From: mark lewis (1:3634/12.73) To: n/a Date: Thu, 13 June 2019 Oil Change On 2019 Jun 13 08:40:08, you wrote to Steven Wolf: RK> I'm not a mechanic at all, but I don't mind turning wrenches on my RK> free time. Its just too frustrating for me at times. I remember RK> wa... |
![]() From: Ron Kinney (1:104/115) To: n/a Date: Thu, 13 June 2019 Oil Change Re: Oil Change By: Steven Wolf to Ron Kinney on Sun Jun 09 2019 06:02 pm > >> After how many miles do you have your oil changed in your vehicle? Do > >> you have a favorite oil brand? One that ... |
![]() From: Steven Wolf (1:267/160) To: n/a Date: Sun, 09 June 2019 Oil Change Re: Oil Change By: Ron Kinney to Steven Wolf on Tue May 28 2019 09:23 am >> After how many miles do you have your oil changed in your vehicle? Do >> you have a favorite oil brand? One that you sw... |
![]() From: Ron Kinney (1:104/115) To: n/a Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 Oil Change Re: Oil Change By: Steven Wolf to All on Wed May 22 2019 09:43 am > After how many miles do you have your oil changed in your vehicle? Do you > have a favorite oil brand? One that you swear by? ... |
![]() From: Mike Powell (1:2320/105) To: n/a Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 Oil Change > What weight do you prefer? 10W-30? I prefer whatever weight the owner's manual says to use for that particular vehicle. I have had vehicles that take 10W-40, 10W-30, and 5W-30 at various times. M... |