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I’m trying to choose between a Fumoto valve and a magnetic bolt for my next oil change. My friend who drives near to poo poo cars swears by magnetic bolts, but I’ve never noticed any metal to worry about. It’s a Camry Hybrid with a 2AZ-FXE, so aluminum block but ferrous pistons and rings from what I can see. What does this thread think? Fumoto valves are so convenient.
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I feel like if you're dealing with an engine where the magnetic plug actually does anything, you have problems.
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Jul 9, 2018 06:40
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Yeah once something is showing, it's already hosed.
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Jul 9, 2018 06:43
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Fair enough. This guy seriously keeps cars running past when they should, so I see it for him. I’ll get a Fumoto.
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Jul 9, 2018 06:56
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Is the Fumoto valve really worth it to save you ten seconds (probably offset by the extra time it takes for the oil to drain) per oil change?
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Jul 9, 2018 14:32
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I don't have direct experience with them but I see the appeal. No tool, quick, no mess when the drain plug drops into your pan. I don't really see it as a time saver, more just convenience.
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Jul 9, 2018 14:43
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I like it on the WJ because it prevents a lot of splashing that I'd get when removing the drain plug, which makes a bigger mess there because it's lifted.
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Jul 9, 2018 14:46
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Bajaha posted:I don't have direct experience with them but I see the appeal. No tool, quick, no mess when the drain plug drops into your pan. I don't really see it as a time saver, more just convenience. I personally see it as something else to go wrong, but I can see why it would appeal.
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Jul 9, 2018 14:57
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IOwnCalculus posted:I like it on the WJ because it prevents a lot of splashing that I'd get when removing the drain plug, which makes a bigger mess there because it's lifted. They really make a lot more sense when you have a lifted vehicle or are draining oil with your car on a lift. My TJ is just high enough that I can drain into a typical 5 gallon bucket, but I've dropped the plug in before. Get a magnetic pickup tool, reaching into hot oil for a drain plug is no fun.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:27
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GWBBQ posted:Is the Fumoto valve really worth it to save you ten seconds (probably offset by the extra time it takes for the oil to drain) per oil change? Yes. I've got one for each car's oil pan, and another on the Jeep's radiator. It takes no noticeable extra time to drain, and when I'm doing a change on the jeep the only tool I need is the 24mm socket (which stays on the 5/8 ratchet anyway) for the filter cover. I can do an oil change in 90 seconds plus fresh-oil-pour-time, from the second I turn the light on in the garage. Godholio fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Jul 9, 2018 |
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Is there any way to rent a Kei car for a day or so? I've been pining for one for years. Considering that I barely fit into my rebadged Mazda familia cabriolet, I need to find out if I can even fit into my dream cars before I start earnestly squirreling money away for oneGWBBQ posted:Is the Fumoto valve really worth it to save you ten seconds (probably offset by the extra time it takes for the oil to drain) per oil change? My old FIAT and its recessed Allen wrench plug was the only car that "needed" one IMO. I still put them on all of my cars for the sake of convenience, but their utility actually being worth the price is a bit of a stretch
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The Door Frame posted:Is there any way to rent a Kei car for a day or so? I've been pining for one for years. Considering that I barely fit into my rebadged Mazda familia cabriolet, I need to find out if I can even fit into my dream cars before I start earnestly squirreling money away for one I suggest looking for an owners club and seeing if one of them is willing to accommodate.
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Also I'm a big guy (1m95cm) and I've driven a couple of kei cars. Not comfortably though.
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The Door Frame posted:Is there any way to rent a Kei car for a day or so? I've been pining for one for years. Considering that I barely fit into my rebadged Mazda familia cabriolet, I need to find out if I can even fit into my dream cars before I start earnestly squirreling money away for one It depends entirely on whatever kei car you are looking at. Various trucks and vans have pretty strict height requirements, Honda Beats are pretty well-known for being quite comfortable for taller people, Suzuki Cappuccino being the next best and if you are over 5'10" and weigh north of 200 lbs you will hate the AZ-1 if you can even fit. I'm waiting to take delivery of an AZ-1 this week to see what it's like. For reference I'm 5'10" and weigh about 155 lbs, and the Acty van I drove for a while fit me perfect, any taller and I'd have been uncomfortable. I expect the AZ-1 to be pretty similar.
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KakerMix posted:It depends entirely on whatever kei car you are looking at. Various trucks and vans have pretty strict height requirements, Honda Beats are pretty well-known for being quite comfortable for taller people, Suzuki Cappuccino being the next best and if you are over 5'10" and weigh north of 200 lbs you will hate the AZ-1 if you can even fit. I'm really hoping for a Mighty Boy, but there's worse things in the world than having to own a Cappuccino E: comfort is pretty relative. I don't care much about comfort, more about being able to turn the wheel and not bashing my head into the headliner when I hit a pothole
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Kei?
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LingcodKilla posted:Kei?
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Stupid questions about automotive coolant. 2007 Corolla and 2009 Elantra, in case it matters:
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Jul 10, 2018 20:19
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melon cat posted:Stupid questions about automotive coolant. 2007 Corolla and 2009 Elantra, in case it matters:
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melon cat posted:Stupid questions about automotive coolant. 2007 Corolla and 2009 Elantra, in case it matters: There is no difference between distilled and deionized water, from a practical standpoint. Distilling is just a method for removing the ions from water, so distilled is deionized. In either case, it makes no difference in your engine. The metal ions that form lime scale in your cooling system come from the slow corrosion of the metal itself. The few ions you introduce from the water are irrelevant.
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The Door Frame posted:Is there any way to rent a Kei car for a day or so? I've been pining for one for years. Considering that I barely fit into my rebadged Mazda familia cabriolet, I need to find out if I can even fit into my dream cars before I start earnestly squirreling money away for one Mitsubishi i-MiEV is a U.S. electric Kei Car you can grab used for like $6000 https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/l-Used-Mitsubishi-i-MiEV-d2166#listing=209875440 Though, it is also the absolute weakest power/range of any US highway legal electric car. My electric Smart Fortwo beats it.
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Deteriorata posted:There is no difference between distilled and deionized water, from a practical standpoint. Distilling is just a method for removing the ions from water, so distilled is deionized. This last bit is true re "deionized" vs "distilled", but don't go putting tap water in your engine. Calcium and magnesium ions (which are what make hard water... hard) do bad poo poo with standard coolant formulations, and don't really have sources in the engine itself.
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I have no clue how to drive turbo engines for fuel economy. In my NB Miata, it was easy: keep the ECU in closed loop by staying under 4K RPM. In my Mustang, it had a factory air/fuel gauge so I got a feeling for what conditions would make the engine run at stoich ratio, and what would run rich. I'm in a Fiesta with the 3cyl right now, and I don't know whether I want to run lower RPM and higher boost, or higher RPM and lower boost for fuel economy. Given that it's a 1 liter engine, staying entirely out of boost is hard. The shift light seems to be guiding me to low RPM and lots of boost, and I think its rated peak torque number (148?) is at 2500RPM.
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Jul 11, 2018 02:50
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Follow the shift light for best fuel economy. AFAIK the EPA test guidelines say that you follow any indicators on a manual transmission religiously, so those lights are specifically tuned to get the best result with no regard for performance. I don't know how it goes on the SFE with the 5 speed, but on the ST the shift light is almost nonsensical in that it tells you to shift 4>5 at 41 MPH and 5>6 at 42 MPH. It's basically as if they really meant "just go 4>6 and skip 5 altogether" but weren't willing to put that in the manual.
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wolrah posted:I don't know how it goes on the SFE with the 5 speed, but on the ST the shift light is almost nonsensical in that it tells you to shift 4>5 at 41 MPH and 5>6 at 42 MPH. It's basically as if they really meant "just go 4>6 and skip 5 altogether" but weren't willing to put that in the manual. I guarantee you on a slow enough acceleration curve it makes a measurable difference to do that 41-42 jump in 5th. Not noticable in everyday use, but measurable.
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Counterpoint: when I follow the upshift light on my car (Saturn Ion), I wind up lugging the poo poo out of the engine (it wants me in 5th at 35 mph, which has me at just above idle). It also destroys my fuel economy. Driving my own way, I manage 23-25 city; following the light, it drops into the high teens. Obviously not a turbo engine, but that light annoys me more than anything, because it's just so useless in my case. Though I had to laugh when it came on in reverse once (was doing FWD [reverse] donuts in the snow in an empty parking lot). I've only been able to manage EPA numbers once in this car, and 3 or 4 times in the old car (same model), and those were 100% highway tanks. The gearing is just too tall for the engine, IMO.
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Enourmo posted:This last bit is true re "deionized" vs "distilled", but don't go putting tap water in your engine. Calcium and magnesium ions (which are what make hard water... hard) do bad poo poo with standard coolant formulations, and don't really have sources in the engine itself. Sorry, that's bullshit. Unless your water is so hard you plug up a coffee maker in one use, the calcium and magnesium ions are at a low enough concentration to make no difference whatever. The lime scale forms from iron and aluminum ions gradually dissolved into the coolant. The calcium and magnesium precipitate out, too, but it will make a total of a few milligrams of scale itself. Everything else is from the engine.
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I've been feeding my leaky cooling system tap water for a while now so this discussion worries me deeply. I'm pretty sure we have non-hard water here, though.
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2010 Malibu 2.4. Changed the oil on Friday and drove it about 6 miles on Sunday with no issues. Come Monday morning I drive 20 miles to work and light smoke is coming from the hood as I park. I went back out at lunch and found significant oil under the car which had dripped/leaked from mid to high up on the engine as it was smoking on the engine that morning. I went home Monday night and rechecked everything for my oil change and everything looked normal. I drove it to work again today and had oil leaking during work and got home and had oil leaking after work. I have been adding oil as I go to make sure it doesn’t run low. About 1 quart has leaked in 48 hours. Any idea where is coming from? It doesn’t leak in one spot, but leaks and splatters as if it’s coming from all over the engine. The cardboard undr the car today had a two foot length of oil splatters. Could it be leaking from the oil cap? I took off the plastic engine cover today and did not notice anything significant underneath. 28,500 Miles, so it’s young in use. Help me, goons.
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Jul 11, 2018 05:16
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Check your oil filter cap. I'm betting you either didn't get it on all the way, or the o-ring on the cap is cracked. e: if you didn't do the oil change yourself, the oil filter lives under a plastic cap, kinda tucked under the intake manifold. This isn't from the Malibu, but the placement is similar (you'll need the plastic engine cover off to really see it). 
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Javid posted:I've been feeding my leaky cooling system tap water for a while now so this discussion worries me deeply. I've been using tap water for forty years; since 2000 in my Bonneville (Iron block). Yet to see a problem.
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STR posted:Check your oil filter cap. I'm betting you either didn't get it on all the way, or the o-ring on the cap is cracked. Thanks. My friend and I checked that again yesterday and couldn’t find any issues with it. I did change it myself. How tight does it have to be? I’ve changed it two times previously without any issues, so I assume what I’m doing is fine. If the ring isn’t cracked could it just be defective? I’ve never purchased this filter before. Just generic Napa.
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PainterofCrap posted:I've been using tap water for forty years; since 2000 in my Bonneville (Iron block). Yet to see a problem. At some point it adds up. My 62 Lark had serious scale in the radiator, to the point that it would overheat on a 10 minute drive. Some vinegar in the radiator fixed the problem, though.
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PainterofCrap posted:I've been using tap water for forty years; since 2000 in my Bonneville (Iron block). Yet to see a problem. I wouldn't do this for cars that you like, there's too much that can get weird with specific coolants that you're using and what the block and head are made out of.
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PainterofCrap posted:I've been using tap water for forty years; since 2000 in my Bonneville (Iron block). Yet to see a problem. For anybody cruising the thread later, this is bad advice and should not be followed. Just FYI.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:For anybody cruising the thread later, this is bad advice and should not be followed. Just FYI. No, it's fine as advice. There's no physical way tap water can make any meaningful difference whatsoever. The benefits of distilled water are all in your mind. Go ahead and use distilled if you want to. Use tap water if you want to. It literally does not matter.
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It's fine, mineral content doesn't change water conductivity, electrolysis rates, and doesn't leave any residue. That's why showerheads that use tap water never get any build-up, ever. There's also zero chance that anything in tap water could ever react poorly with anything. I also use plain tap water when doing chemistry. E: it looks like you've had this fight before, in this very thread, with me and others. So I'll just let you be you. Queen_Combat fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Jul 11, 2018 |
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I only fill my radiator with concentrated urine from when I'm severely dehydrated. It color-matches dex-cool, so it should be good to go.
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I used this example before, but: You could under- or over-inflate your tires for 40 years and not have a blowout. But you still wouldn't recommend people do that, would you? (Special circumstances aside.)
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Twerk from Home posted:I only fill my radiator with concentrated urine from when I'm severely dehydrated. My VW uses pink coolant. What does one need to drink so their urine can be used in a VW?
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