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That's how to do it. Now I want to take mine on the drag strip just to see how slow mine goes :-)

Worked on making a tow hook with bolts and spare parts. I think I will put a loop on the long one. The short one won't work in the front. I figure the front one would only need to handle about 500 pounds of pull to get a CX-5 up a tilted flatbed tow truck.

You took your CX-5 to the drag strip? hahahaha! The reaction time was okay. Did you use the e-hold and just hit the gas?

This would be Walmart's battery for our cars right? EverStart Maxx

So your analysis was the factory oil, right? Not Amsoil?

How long did you go with the factory oil before putting in the Amsoil?

I think ferro_sk's low oil pressure was a lot more serious for those bearings to be noisy and needing replacement.

Most oils already met the GF6 specs and just had to change the labels on the containers. Castrol didn't change their formulations but all their bottles now say GF6.

Was a piece of scrap aluminum, I was improvising. After using that, then I used a nut and bolt such that the head of the bolt caught on the edge of the hole on the outside, and I turned the nut on the inside to have the head of the bolt pull on the edge of the hole slowly bending the car's sheet...

So one of you guys can buy it for $29,800. The dealer won't want it on their lot forever, and I think they would be fine with an $800 dollar profit.

I think Hyundai and Kia now make excellent cars. They still have their spontaneous combustion issues, lol, but they really designed their cars smart and to be durable. Their reputation is still spoiled from the crap they threw together in the 90's.

I partially agree with Tchman2016, because all of the auto manufacturers are pushed to be more green. One way to be more green is to not recycle so much oil and trans fluid. So they set the intervals to be the longest without sacrificing the engine's or transmission's durability. But as stated...

It is implied that the red line has the data for both octanes, otherwise it would mean that the car goes 0 mph until the revs go over 4,500 for the grey line lol. I can sort of understand people thinking "Where is the grey line?" when first looking at a chart like that for the first time. All of...

I would try and get a free extended warranty, with the angle that it wasn't diagnosed properly the first time and you have concern with your engine's longevity. They will probably say you had no damage, and you can say "Well then getting an extended warranty won't cost them anything since the...

Asking for a new engine is extreme imho. The fear of getting the low oil pressure indicator is that there is zero oil pressure. Since yours still had 26 at the higher rpm, It is very unlikely that any engine damage occurred. After saying that, I would want to cut open the oil filter to look for...

OEM is best since it is custom for Mazda. What we don't know about non OEM filters is the amount of spring tension for the pressure release, or the density of the filtering media. If it has a weaker spring, oil might bypass the filter. If the filtering media is too dense, it would restrict oil...

To me the graph is very easy to understand. The red line less than 4K rpm for both hp and torque is actually red and grey, meaning that the performance is identical with both octanes. Past 4K the maximum benefit is 23 hp and even less torque, at 5K rpms. Many people might like that extra 23 hp...

10 quarts of full synthetic for $24? Wow that is dirt cheap!