How has the tint been holding up? No purple-ing of it or anything, right?
How has the engine bay spray paint job held up? I'm just curious for future reference.
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How has the tint been holding up? No purple-ing of it or anything, right?
How has the engine bay spray paint job held up? I'm just curious for future reference.
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On a funny side note, I'm sitting behind a kid in my stats lab and his friend is looking at cars on Craigslist. He told his friend not to get a used Mazda Tribute because they have "weird triangle motors" which are hard and expensive to fix. So, today I learned that the Tribute came with a rotary engine!
Weather is warming and I just spent a bunch of money to hopefully fix the issues the MSM had last fall after the rebuild. Hopefully I can get them in soon and the warmer weather continues and then I can tune the car and make up for an entire lost year with it!
How's everyone else doing??
How's everyone else doing??
Should've told him it's a magical spinning dorito!
Lady that works in the call center got mad I wouldn't take a call for a basic mortgage question. Her job is to answer basic mortgage questions. She ended up emailing my co worker and she emailed back "That does require a call back form our department, it's a basic question. I have attached the talking points and references. Thanks"
Other than that, just hoping to hear back soon from a recent job interview I had.
Was he foreign? Lots of Chinese and also Saudi students over here in the states driving to class in super cars on their gov't money these days
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I couldn't tell, I always assume someone in a nice car is either foreign or has some rich family. Usually they pick Audi A7s though.
Put 89 in the tank this morning. More Power!!!!!!! Not really. Not on purpose though. I thought I hit the button but nothing was coming out of the pump. Kinda looked back and just hit what I thought was 87 but it ended up being 89 instead. Only paid $1.89/ gallon though so it's not like I'm breaking the bank. I blame the fog for this.
Not saying that at all. And really unless you drive a ton of miles, you're not really going to see a huge difference over a year either. I would gladly pay for premium if I had a tune for it that would net me 10-15 extra ponies.
agree. I accidentally pushed premium for the 3 one time and got better mpg. But the manual says to use 87 so I am conflicted. I know the high compression of the skyactive motor would love better octane but I'm not sure if I would be hurting it or not by giving it fuel that it isn't tuned to use.
A bunch of cx-5 guys reported better millage using ther higher octanes. I don't know if the cost benefit is worth it. I think it would be if you got a couple miles per gallon better.
What's everyone's plans this weekend?
Kennedy turns 3 on Sunday (crazy). Hard to beleive she's 3 already. Going to do some birthday day stuff, going to Sky Zone so her and her friends can bounce around on giant trampolines. Other than that, the weekend consists of stuff around the house and find a place to mount my summer tires on the fd wheels. Debating if I should hold out until I install the coil-overs and do it all at once or just have them mounted now.
Kennedy turns 3 on Sunday (crazy). Hard to beleive she's 3 already. Going to do some birthday day stuff, going to Sky Zone so her and her friends can bounce around on giant trampolines. Other than that, the weekend consists of stuff around the house and find a place to mount my summer tires on the fd wheels. Debating if I should hold out until I install the coil-overs and do it all at once or just have them mounted now.
Higher octane is not going to get you better gas mileage. Comparing mileage tank to tank isn't an accurate mileage comparison as so many other factors change outside of just the fuel that is in the car.
Octane rating is knock resistance, nothing more, nothing less. Although higher octane ratings typically have better detergent additives.
The 3, despite it's high compression, is still tuned for 87. (Like the CX5, 6, etc). Using a higher grade of fuel isn't going to change anything in the way the car performs with the stock tune.
Take your pick of articles for a source: https://www.google.com/webhp?source...1&ie=UTF-8#q=octane+ratings+explained&spell=1
