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Did you get this checked out? On my dad's chevy pick up, a dying starter motor was the culprit of the car not wanting to start hot. The conductive properties of an object are affected by higher temps, so maybe the electrical resistance is ok when cold, but when getting hot, it just can't get...

Then I made the right choice :) Up until last week when it started raining and we're a bit cooler (at 90ish), in summer we'll pass 100F pretty much every day. We had about a month and a bit stint where we where hitting 120F every day. On the flip side, our winter is a joke for most of you guys...

So, the dealership is good with me bringing my own oil and after a bit of shopping around to find the 6 quarts needed, I finished off what I could find and bought 7 quarts just in case.

It seems that for some reason it's not for sale in the US, but it's most ceirtanly real. I've found a bit of chit chat about it in other forums, but nothing too good, mostly stuff that decends into "my oil is better than yours" flame wars. The Mobil's homepage info (thanks hugador) and this...

Hey guys. I was wondering if anybody has used this stuff: Mobil 1 5w-50. I'm running Mobil1 5w-30 right now, but I'll be swapping fluids in my car by next week. I'll probably use the 50 stuff since I live in the desert and my car can use all the high temp protection it can get. I was just...

Very well put! I think exactly along these same lines; and DSC saved my ass in a big way once too, precisely by being distracted and not assessing a situation correctly (took a corner at a good speed for dry conditions without noticing there was a sheet of water just past the corner's entry)...

Yes, I also suspect that they're following procedure and switched me to 5w-40 oil, but since I got no paperwork to sign after they did the job (only the paperwork for the car's entry to the shop) I can't confirm this, neither do I have more specific info about the tweak they made. I tought it...

The car blew another puff of white smoke on idle last friday again, this was in about 60-70 weather so overheating is ruled out, as I was driving at a normal pace; the only things in common with the first incident where: a) Got up to at least 60 mph at some point of the drive. b) At some point...

Will do.

While I haven't tried barefoot running for a couple of reasons (mainly that in summer the weather here would mean you'd end up with burnt feet and that it's hard to find a nice clean park) and I tend to be skeptical at what fashionable gurus say; you can't argue that our physical form was made...

Since the winter months are just about to appear, I find this test very interesting, nothing new stated, but still nice to remember: http://blogs.insideline.com/straightline/2009/10/tire-test-all-season-vs-snow-vs-summer.html

Yep, I also think I'll be fine....at least in the short term, but cwpspeed3 makes a good point in that if it did it once, it'll do it again, when there's more wear and tear. I don't mind the car having character or being a bit mannerly, it's a nice challenge to get the most out of a car like...

Thanks guys! And yes, White Sands is nice; almost alien feeling, the silence that's there is amazing, you can easily hear what people are talking about a good 30-50 yards away, pretty cool place. Tough I tought I had gotten a pic of my white car next to a white dune, I never could find it in...

Well, I've had the Speed for almost a year and a half and even tough I had done a few 2 day trips in it, I had never really taken a long trip..until last week when I went for a 6 day vacation touring Texas and New Mexico. I could bore you with the little details of my trip, but in this place, I...