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My most recent oil change, on the Fit, he told me 10,000 km or one year, with synthetic. While it was on warranty, Honda changed it every 5,000 km. I just had the second trans fluid change, on Monday. 64,000 km. That should be good for a good long while, so I hear. Zero experience with automatics.
Most of the Porsches we've owned had oil capacities of 8 quarts or more. That and synthetic oil only may account for the 10k change intervals.
04-28-22, 10:41 AM
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Perhaps, but I use it as shorthand to say that in the opinion of the general population of car buyers, Toyota vehicles, when even reasonably maintained, will easily get you 200k if not 300k, and they won't nickel and dime you to death with chintzy problems caused by inferior parts and shoddy workmanship.
Anecdotally, I used to commute with Cressida's back in the day. I bought them used, always with 100k+ miles on them, and never failed to at least double that mileage before replacing with a newer one. My best Cressida gave me 350k+ miles before giving up the ghost. My '77 Celica simply would not die no matter how much I neglected it; it finally succumbed to unsightly rust. Sentimentally my favorite car, earned me several speeding tickets over the years.
Anecdotally, I used to commute with Cressida's back in the day. I bought them used, always with 100k+ miles on them, and never failed to at least double that mileage before replacing with a newer one. My best Cressida gave me 350k+ miles before giving up the ghost. My '77 Celica simply would not die no matter how much I neglected it; it finally succumbed to unsightly rust. Sentimentally my favorite car, earned me several speeding tickets over the years.
Later, I bought the Blazer 4x4 for the snow and I hoped it would last one year because it had the notorious 2.8 engine. Had 60k when I got it and sold it 18 years later with almost 300k. I neglected it badly but it would not die.
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04-28-22, 10:51 AM
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04-28-22, 10:55 AM
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Me too! Except I did the labor. It was a 5 speed manual and it was trashed beyond fixing, so I bought a rebuilt for $600.
The automatic in my Trailblazer has 200K on it now, (100k when I got it) and I've never serviced it. I don't know if it was serviced by the previous owner. It still goes.
The automatic in my Trailblazer has 200K on it now, (100k when I got it) and I've never serviced it. I don't know if it was serviced by the previous owner. It still goes.
04-28-22, 10:57 AM
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04-28-22, 10:59 AM
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Me too! Except I did the labor. It was a 5 speed manual and it was trashed beyond fixing, so I bought a rebuilt for $600.
The automatic in my Trailblazer has 200K on it now, (100k when I got it) and I've never serviced it. I don't know if it was serviced by the previous owner. It still goes.
The automatic in my Trailblazer has 200K on it now, (100k when I got it) and I've never serviced it. I don't know if it was serviced by the previous owner. It still goes.
04-28-22, 11:19 AM
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04-28-22, 11:31 AM
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04-28-22, 12:22 PM
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04-28-22, 01:17 PM
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04-28-22, 01:19 PM
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04-28-22, 01:21 PM
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04-28-22, 01:51 PM
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04-28-22, 02:14 PM
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Total change in subject, but I found out that one of the guys in my club will be moving to Wellington in a month or so. He had started the Visa/job-hunting process a few years ago, but the pandemic squashed it just as the last details were being ironed out. They finally picked back up where they'd left of and now he's on the way over. Excited for him, but sad to see him go.
04-28-22, 02:19 PM
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Last night I decided I better check on the gravel tires and wheels. Let all of the air out and pulled the tires off to see how they were faring. Remarkably, there was still 15 ML of the original sealant I put in back in January. Topped it all off, aired them back up and threw a new chain on. When I started pedaling, I was getting a horrible squeak from the rear hub.
I pulled the cassette and rotors off and thought I’d sufficiently greased everything. Put it all back together and it still squeaked. I did it again, this time pulling the hub completely apart and cleaning / greasing everything. Put it all back together and guess what…
The pawls aren’t engaging because of too much grease. I pull it all apart AGAIN, clean the free hub body of some of the grease and finally everything is working.
I need to take it out for a short ride tomorrow, but everything seems good. I guess I know how to service a DT hub now. If I couldn’t get the squeak to stop, I was going to throw the gravel tires on my Zipps, but prefer not the beat the **** out of them in ankle deep mud.
I pulled the cassette and rotors off and thought I’d sufficiently greased everything. Put it all back together and it still squeaked. I did it again, this time pulling the hub completely apart and cleaning / greasing everything. Put it all back together and guess what…
The pawls aren’t engaging because of too much grease. I pull it all apart AGAIN, clean the free hub body of some of the grease and finally everything is working.
I need to take it out for a short ride tomorrow, but everything seems good. I guess I know how to service a DT hub now. If I couldn’t get the squeak to stop, I was going to throw the gravel tires on my Zipps, but prefer not the beat the **** out of them in ankle deep mud.
04-28-22, 02:32 PM
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This is the 180K route for this year’s D2R2:
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/30100793
13,000’ of climbing. It’s mostly unpaved.
I double dog dare you.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/30100793
13,000’ of climbing. It’s mostly unpaved.
I double dog dare you.
04-28-22, 03:06 PM
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This is the 180K route for this year’s D2R2:
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/30100793
13,000’ of climbing. It’s mostly unpaved.
I double dog dare you.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/30100793
13,000’ of climbing. It’s mostly unpaved.
I double dog dare you.
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04-28-22, 03:09 PM
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I was gonna ride this morning after dropping The Younger Boy off at work, but the wind was buffeting the 3800 lbs of Dodge, so I figured it would make my bike ride a whole lot of no fun. So I rode in the garage instead. I have a week left of Wahoo Systm, so I took advantage of their recent acquisition of RGT to try it out. Turned out somebody had already uploaded an 8 mile stretch that I've ridden hundreds of times, so I thought I'd try that.
My opinion: Meh. The gradient profile is right, but the scenery is blah and repetitive and the graphics are primitive. They provide a bunch of bots to ride with, but I ended up riding the last two miles with nobody within several hundred meters ahead or behind - what's the point of the bots if they aren't anywhere near? I guess if I'd never ridden on Zwift, RGT would seem great. Overall it didn't convince me to re-up the Wahoo subscription.
My opinion: Meh. The gradient profile is right, but the scenery is blah and repetitive and the graphics are primitive. They provide a bunch of bots to ride with, but I ended up riding the last two miles with nobody within several hundred meters ahead or behind - what's the point of the bots if they aren't anywhere near? I guess if I'd never ridden on Zwift, RGT would seem great. Overall it didn't convince me to re-up the Wahoo subscription.
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04-28-22, 03:15 PM
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A friend has one of those, a 1987. Last year for carburetion. Drinks gas like nobody's business and can barely get out of its own way. He's parked it since gas went over $5/gal here.
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04-28-22, 03:15 PM
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This is the 180K route for this year’s D2R2:
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/30100793
13,000’ of climbing. It’s mostly unpaved.
I double dog dare you.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/30100793
13,000’ of climbing. It’s mostly unpaved.
I double dog dare you.
04-28-22, 03:35 PM
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I did the 100K in 2012. They had to adjust the route due to flood damage. Over 7,000’ of climbing. Might have been close to 8,000. I did it on my heavy a** LHT. Fell going up a wet, pave carriage road. (It rained the night before.) Walked part of a descent that had railroad ballast size stones. The final unpaved stretch was a road but was more like a rocky, dry creek bed with elevated sides. I slept well that night.
04-28-22, 04:26 PM
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Total change in subject, but I found out that one of the guys in my club will be moving to Wellington in a month or so. He had started the Visa/job-hunting process a few years ago, but the pandemic squashed it just as the last details were being ironed out. They finally picked back up where they'd left of and now he's on the way over. Excited for him, but sad to see him go.
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