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If you pay $150 for an oil change and inspections for periodic maintenance, then this price for brakes is probably fine. I can't bring myself to pay that sort of money for such things. Apparently most people are okay with it.

I know this is off topic, but I'd like to hear more about it. I know exactly what you mean. It's hard to even get an HVAC tech to actually diagnose and repair simple problems with an existing install when they just want to sell a new system. PM?

Even cheaper is this Amazon.com and a video camera of some sort. That's what I used. Or you can make one from a gatorade bottle. I always bleed the brakes, and might as well replace the fluid, when I change pads/rotors.

I don't know about these part numbers, but for my 2018 I found that the Canadian version was completely different and worked perfectly on my US car. The Canadian did not require any cutting or piercing any wire insulation. I think it just involved adding a pin to one of the connectors by...

Its a check valve, that's what the "no return" means. It keeps the tube full of liquid so you don't have to pump all the way from the reservoir to the spray nozzles each time you want to spray. It would take a lot longer to prime and get spray and require a lot of unnecessary work for the pump.

Surely they mean your pads are at 3mm. No way the rotors are 3mm thick, that's a little over 1/10th of an inch.

Back on topic. With the transmission being a closed system, Mazda probably puts in the minimum amount they know is sufficient, and they probably do it very precisely and repeatably. This is hypothetical, and I pretend no special insight into automatic transmissions or Mazda's in particular...

Those are not necessarily contradictory. If you fill it to max and it gradually is consumed, and you top it off when it gets near min, its condition most of the time will be between the Min and the Max and its average level will be near that midpoint. If it were filled to the midpoint, and...

Halfway between Min and Max is the correct level. More than max is overfull. Less than min is underfilled. Anywhere in between is acceptable operating range. If you expect to consume oil, it makes sense to put it above the mid mark, but Max is the limit, not the target.

Measured with the engine running and at a certain temperature.

I've only read quickly, but apparently Deutsch Welle claims it only affects Japanese Domestic market: https://www.dw.com/en/toyota-apologizes-as-japanese-car-testing-scandal-widens/a-69258367

Thanks for the follow-up. From the video, I might just go straight to the resistance test.

I think, at least in the past, that Amazon sometimes pools inventory for fulfillment. When fulfilled by Amazon, it may not be the vendor's fault.

In my experience with Android Auto, I believe that sometimes it is updates to Android Auto and/or my phone that cause problems for one to many weeks until they quietly get resolved with future updates. It may be coincidence that the problems are occurring after your update (assuming they...