A bit scared -- new Prius

Haven't seen anything. The repair manual shows the filter-only style prominently, and a little pic in the corner showing the spin-on (does show a torque value). The instruction is all about the filter-only style, no mention of spin-on.

 

I'm pretty sure I could have done that with my ancient Dodge Ramcharger. (The old 2-door "SUV.") It had a slant six and most of what was under the hood was empty space. I can't find a pic of under the hood, but it was cavernous. Mine was 2-wheel drive, but otherwise much like this one. Except the floor was rotted out.

 

That's the Fred Flintstone package. . . . .

 

The 1979 Powerwagon my old man has with a 360 in it will still allow the mechanic to be standing and comfortable in the engine bay.

Oh how we have progressed.

 

Falcon?
My blue '64 falcon van - baby, looked luke this ...



in a month' s time, it'd leak 1gt & burn another, whenever driven over 60mph. Better be out of the automatic tranny's high gear going down the mountain or u get guaranteed brake fade. So - Changing Prius filter & oil is a no-brainer, & yes, there are tons of YouTube videos you can watch to see if your self.
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Seems like in here, if you are 60 something, your first or second car was also a 60 something. Mine was a 69 bug.

 

My parents had a 58 bug, purchased new. I got slightly familiar with it, mostly washing it. Drove it a bit. Loved the smell: we test drove a Jetta about 15 years back, they still had that smell.

 

There was something about the smell of a bug right? I learned how to drive a stick and boy do I miss it! Having a stick isn't really practical anymore, but, if I were to get an extra car, I would get one with a stick. I gave my bug away decades ago. Now, that same bug is worth nearly 20k in the US.

 

You lose. I'm almost 68. My first car was a '61 Mercury Comet. The shift linkage was so worn that occasionally it seized up. A previous owner had cut a hole in the grill so you could stick a screwdriver through and push on the linkage to free it. That's what I did, too, rather than actually fix it.

 

That's because by the time we got our drivers license our first car was not going to be a new one so the 60's models were a good first car fit.

I had a 63 and a 66 VW Beetle. Great cars unless you were on glaze Ice. The heavy rear engine wanted to go down the road first. Did that more than once.

 

I wish I had my dad's blue & white '55 Chevy Bel Air. First car I remember growing up.

 

We had a two tone 56