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Experimenting with Torque Pro right now. I felt challenged when the Eco Widget showed that I was driving like a mum and dad's taxi. For a very brief period, it showed "Sunday Driver." After an hour-long drive with two crashes leading to slow crawls, my final score is Green Machine. 😳 What other...

I was obsessed with filters. Cut open quite a few filters and watched videos of more getting cut open. My focus has been with the filters for NA 2.0. The OEM design makes sense. Nothing else on the market is close. The Wix filter has a much shorter filter media, though without a adbv. The next...

Been looking around for tips on alternator replacement and there isn't much. 🤦 My CX-3 will reach 180K miles in 1055 miles. I don't think it's a life-time component like the rear wiper. Having dealt with electrical hiccups and other setbacks, I don't want any more surprises. Alternator...

I understand the importance of flow on Skyactiv engines and appreciate your earlier post about shorter OCI. I wonder if there are two parts of the flow: fresh oil entering the top inlet holes into the filter media, and exiting through the inner tube/core/support. Do they both matter? 😅

Let me send a distress signal for more help... @sm1ke 😳😳

In the thread linked above, someone noted the MAF sensor as the culprit. You can explore that aspect yourself. If all your cylinders are misfiring, the cause is hopefully something other than a dead cylinder. I learned recently that the scanning process is not absolutely precise/perfect. The...

Your ambient temps are way up there. I didn't know that there are two values. Do you happen to have stats for intake temp? I recall intake temp is higher than ambient because it is in an enclosed space. Would an excessively high value lead to a poor mix?

1700 miles is a very short interval. It'd be great if your sample yields no potassium/sodium. If the values are high, then you can address the problem. Can you check under the rad cap too? Here are my two recent results from Blackstone showing coolant in oil. This level is not enough to impact...

Hang in there you've made great progress in two days!

The app has been updated a couple of times in the last month and I think it doesn't tolerate my OBD2 devices any more. I am using a 4 amp maintainer to nurse the brand new battery. With the old device, it showed 14.3v which is consistent with the maintainer's flashing green light (full/max)...

Installed battery #4 on my 2017 this morning. Placed the order late last night. Item is in stock but the order was still being processed after 9:30 am. I wonder if they're saving battery pickups for later because most folks expect free installation and they're short staffed. Drove over, picked...

Thank you all for the recommendations! I decided to go with Duralast at AutoZone because of the 4 year warranty. By reading reviews on all eligible batteries, I realized that they all fail prematurely on some unfortunate consumers. I understand that there are other factors that contribute to the...