Just need to vent...

Valvoline now sells 5-gallon boxes of oil with a pretty cool spigot on the bottom. I'm always looking to save money on oil since I do changes every 6-months on all of our vehicles.
Recently, I found them on Walmart.com for $113.99 with free shipment to the house. That comes out to $22.80 a gallon for synthetic!

 

... thoughtful, necessary thing, a sincere thank you to our Prius Chat, that our democrat friends are afforded a thread dedicated , for which they're free to vent their angst, frustration, confusion, consternation, deep-seeded anger. Five gets you ten this thread's spared many a Tesla, from being keyed, many a senior citizen in her EV, from being assaulted -


Samuel, '04 Ruthiemobile -


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There, Samuel, don't you feel a little better now?

 

Venting about venting.

 

or Venting about venting about venting - ad infinitum
........ & people that use Latin verbiage

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Habemos ecfundo.

 

So much venting!!!
One wonders 'what' exactly is being vented....
Worms with near boiling and freezing ends......
SO MUCH UNDISCOVERED 'country' down there!!!
When I was doing hydrographic survey work for my Uncle, it was said that we have much more accurately mapped the surface of the Moon and Mars than he have our own planet!
That's still more than likely true TODAY!

According to AI:
As of mid-2023, roughly 25% of the Earth's seafloor has been mapped using modern high-resolution technology like multibeam sonar systems. This mapping provides detailed information about the seafloor's topography and features. However, a much smaller percentage, around 5%, has been mapped with detailed sonar systems to reveal specific features like seamounts and faults....which is where the vents 'live.'

 

That was AI AI. Not to be confused with




Or "Ay ay, sir"

 

AI explains Aye and Aye-Aye.....

 

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WOW, ChapmanF ... You are really annoying.

There was nothing "boldfaced" in my post. As I think I've explained before, I have common simple eyesight difficulties, and I like my posts to be larger so I can better read them when I put them up. I'm sorry that you were not aware of that. I'm sorry too, that you can't determine that my post was GENERAL INFORMATION. I'm feeling really bad that you yourself have reading comprehension skill difficulties. For some odd reason, I've got this feeling that you and I have gone this complimentary back'n'forth direction before. Anyway ... I'm tired of this banter with you. Hav'a nice day.

 

Ah, I see. There are probably others around who also adjust font sizes and such in their own browser settings to address the same sorts of issues, but those local settings don't end up changing the way their posts appear to everyone else.

I'm not saying anything's wrong with doing it your way, but then it can't be too surprising if other readers wonder what to take away from Shanski saying everything at size 5.

Well, yeah, I've got this longstanding thing that might annoy you, which is that I don't only care about whether information is "GENERAL", but also about whether it is true.

If I told you your Prius battery was made with yak urine, you would probably not accept that claim on my say-so, if I hadn't provided some source you could evaluate, or results from a lab, or a confession from the donor yak. Even if I then said "oh, but I'm just giving GENERAL INFORMATION" it probably wouldn't change much. You wouldn't really give two hoots whether Chap says it's GENERAL or not; you'd be more interested in whether you'd been given good reason to believe it.

And that's just as it should be.

 

GI = General Information.
GP = General Principles
GC = General Consensus at my Toyota dealer is their oil is Mobil 1. They even list it on my oil change receipts which are usually
BOGO = Buy One Get One (free)

I once toured an oil packaging plant for FORD = Fix Or Repair Daily (50 years ago). They used
CONOCO = Continental Oil Company

 

It's perfectly fine to toss around "GI", "GP", or "GC", and at the end of the day we're still on the internet where anybody can call anything "GI" and the one way to know whether it is or not hasn't changed since our days in school.

 

Like many acronyms, FORD stands for more than one thing.....

@ CONOCO...


Guaranteed for 10,000 miles.
Changed out every 3,000-4,000.
...done.

As it turns out.....Walmart, Ford, GM, Toyota.....None of these people actually MAKE oil.

 

I spend the extra dollar for 20K mile stuff, more anti-wear additives. At least that's what's advertised on the jug.......

 

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HEY ... ChapmanF ... GFY.​

 

I thought about it, but "wear" isn't going to be an issue for the two turbocharged four-bangers I use it in - at least not ENGINE wear.
I consider a turbocharger to be a wear item for an engine that I expect to get 200,000 miles out of but I'm much more interested in keeping the oil CLEAN than I am for keeping it in the engine for 10,000 miles.

Basically, I do a 3-step, $75 oil change every 10,000 miles.

 

If new cars weren't so crazy expensive, I'd be tempted to buy something and then use the 20,000 oil filters and 20,000 motor oil and then place my claims when the engine was ruined!

 

The problem is any engine will last five years 60,000 miles no matter what you did to it.