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Steve: sounds like fun, get a lot of pix.
My dad lived in Suriname for 5 years, a Dutch colony, and I visited about 3 times. I'll tell you, the Dutch definitely know how to party.
Your car must be LHD, what's that like? I caught my dad driving on the wrong (right) side of the road down there once.
-juice
I'm sure you have a very interesting story to tell if you were interrupted while vacationing and then had to travel! I can't think of many things that would occur in my job for that to happen to me. Hmm, on that note I hope all is well.
~Colin
Juice is holding out for the 7 seater so he can have a toadtruck.
BTW, Sandy turned 6 this past Sunday. 6 years, 67k miles, and not a penny in out of pocket repairs.
She got a new set of carpeted mats installed a little while before her b-day.
Who else buys presents for their car? Who else even remembers what day they took delivery? For me it's easy, it was 8/8/98.
-juice
Happy birthday to Sandy!
For me it will be 4 years the end of this month. We took delivery on 8/30/00 and 61500 miles later I'm still having fun. While I've had some problems, at least I have met a great group of people here, some even in person.
Mark
juice: Happy B-day to Sandy, but only 67K miles young?
Ken
~c
I've put about 26k miles on my Miata, so I guess overall that's over 93k miles.
I guess it keeps the fleet young, only problem is they might both need to be replaced at about the same time. Yikes! :-)
-juice
tom
We just bought a condo so we're in no shape to buy right now. Maybe in a year or two, though.
-juice
Anyway, does anyone know what size the speakers are? Crutchfield and others do not have specs as of yet.
btw do you mind if mike borrows it for a few hours to do his own personal rollover test?
What color? What tranny? Base XT or Limited version?
We like details! ;-)
Cheers!
-Ian
I like to use Mobil 1 synthetic, of course the dealer won't acknowledge that (because he won't be doing the change(s))
any experiences?
Congrats, by the way, very nice ride!
-juice
Security perimeter upgrade, Auto dimming Rear view
Rear Cargo net and Wheel Locks
blue with the titanium two tone trim. Auto trans
Stickered at 30 and change
Invoice of 27893 - 400 - bought for 27493, all in 1 hour during lunch, must be a slow month?
$27,493 is good, below the average new car transaction price, actually, and the car is a lot better then average.
-juice
~c
I was in 99F temps in SC last month, and there was a nasty knock when I tried to start my FXT. M1 5W30 is thinner than conventional oil.
I'll be sending my 5W30 in for an analyis soon to see how it has held up.
-Dennis
Flew into Amsterdam, then drove down to Eindhoven. Last years Ford Focus from Hertz - nothing exciting... But great cars abound! One of the other participants got an A-class Mercedes. Kind of funky, but functional.
Bridge Too Far dealt with Arnhem, which was a bit West of my drive. But you can see the mass destruction all around. I am staying in Eindhoven city center and was expecting to be blown away by the architecture. Unfortunately, there is very little "old world" left here - victim, I can only imagine, of probably some pretty fierce street fighting.
Steve
in other words, I doubt M1 5w30 was your FXT's problem.
~c
~c
Nijmegen -- I've been there once for business. Man, that was like 10 years ago.
Ken
Yeah - I thought I should get in touch with some of the crew when I was in Baltimore. Unfortunately, I didn't have my laptop (in for a fix) nor my phone book to look anyone up!
But - the sessions I attended at the Univ. of Maryland - Baltimore County, were great so I may be going back soon. The vendor that talks about telephone call center technology holds a lot of sessions there, so....
Patti
UMBC is about 20 minutes from where I live. My son is taking classes there in Psychology to prepare himself for entering grad school.
Bob
-juice
The thickness of 10W30 @40C is 62 cSt, vs 50 on the 5W30.
I think the temp chart in the manual shows 100F or so as being the max temp for 5W30.
It hasn't happened since.
-Dennis
Fun trip. Didn't get to Bob's suggestion of T. Roosevelts house...just didn't have the time, unfortunately. Had a time getting across the G. Washington Bridge and flying over the Cross Bronx. Not sure how people that live there do that every day. My wife was a white-knuckle passenger on the Cross Bronx, while I just took up a somewhat more aggressive driving stance and hoped no one would clip me. Wild driving out there, that's for sure.
Hope everyone had a good week. Lots of messages and mail to catch up on.
-Dan-
-juice
I still strongly disagree about your conclusion that 5w30 M1 was the cause of your noise.
If it sounded dry, it probably was very low on oil. That's not the 5w30's fault... Did you check the dipstick on level ground before switching to 10w30, or if you changed it yourself did you notice how much fluid went into your drain pan?
PS, the temp chart doesn't account for synthetics. Since you went to Mobil's site to get that flow number, you should've noticed that the metrics for their 10w30 and 5w30 are not that different. (Compare to 0w40 for example.)
~c
When you get into the city, you'll soon hear this voice coaxing you, "Run Them Over... Come On You Know You Want To... Run Them Over!!!"
-Dave
in the city there is a consistency to the maddness. i find driving in the city easier then when i meet granny with the purple hair in the burbs. people in the city are predictable in their scramble, granny, geez i have no clue what she is gonna do.
-Dan-
Then again, the value of my house wouldn't buy a garden shed around NY or DC.
Nicholas
How much do you think it's worth? ;-)
-juice
~c
It is only a 10 min drive to city centre, on a bluff overlooking the entire city. The description cuts off the part about the 2 bedroom guest house. hasn't sold because most agents feel it's overpriced, and those are only Canadian $$, so multiply by about 75%.
All it needs is a mile-long circuit around the properly for hot laps. ;-)
-juice
Nope, when I'm on trips I'm very anal about checking oil. I probably checked it three times during that week.
The 5W30 is thinner than 10W at 40C, as I posted above, so I think that all of the oil drained back into the oil pan. Yes, the chart in the manual doesn't account for synthetics. When the engine is cold, a conventional 5W30 is thicker than a sythetic 5W30.
I'm not 100% sure it was due to the 5W30, but it hasn't happened before and hasn't happened since. I think I'll email M1 and see what they say. I'll also post on BITOG and see what some of the experts say.
-Dennis
One of the BITOG experts. I'm still puzzled. Was this a fluke thing? I'll post Mobil's response when they reply.
-Dennis
-Dennis
I think someone did feed the gerbil breakfast, though.
-juice
we were talking the other day about how 2 of my daughters learned to drive on houston freeways and the youngest learned to drive here where this is only ONE controlled access highway at all in the city ... i think the older 2 had an advantage in that one ...
To our friends in Florida: please brace yourselves or get outta there.
Even though Subies have more ground clearance don't try to be a hero and drive over running or deep water.
-juice
It's amazing how people see a road covered in water, and still try to drive through only to get stuck.
Mark
At least the stock intake is fairly high, above the top of the bumper.
-juice
100F is not near extreme heat for Mobil1 5w30, even on a turbocharged car. It's especially true if the engine was cold!
Something unusual caused your noise. If it never happens again while you own the vehicle and it runs fine, then this will just be one of those great mysteries you retell every so often to your car buddies over beers. But if it happens again, then I sure wouldn't blame your 10w30.
btw that pump priming thing was WAY out there. the oil never left the pan! you don't hear any odd noises firing an engine after an oil change, why would you hear them after the vehicle sits.
I prefer the answer "unknown" rather than selecting an answer that just doesn't fit.
~Colin