Recent content by darrenk

I got busy and went longer than I planned to for this change (9730 km / 6045 miles). Iron and Aluminum up a bit (from the longer interval?) . With two good results in a row, I will probably only sample once a year going forward.

I ordered on the last two sales - Thanksgiving, then Christmas a few weeks later so I could buy a rad for under the tree. Now Presidents day. Seems to be right around a major holiday. If I was betting, I would predict the next one to be Easter, worst case May long weekend.

And another 25% off sale for President's Day week. https://autoparts.toyotaofdecatur.com/promotion-terms

Headed down across the border Friday to pick up my Black Friday order of all five front window moldings, rivets, rad, and some fluids. I ordered from Serra Toyota of Decatur and they did a super job of packing the rad (they added extra bubble wrap inside the Toyota box, then placed it in...

Finning is what we have locally for analysis, so hopefully this can be used comparatively to Blackstone. First oil analysis at 319000 km. I've been changing oil for the last 3 years at average of 7400 km (4500 miles) with Costco/Kirkland 5w30 and Toyota filter.

Christmas Sale. Same discount as over the Thanksgiving weekend sale. https://autoparts.toyotaofdecatur.com/ I haven't received my parts from that sale, but will probably make another order.....

Last little bit: One of the twins got a huge rock in windshield just before Thanksgiving, so was able to order new trim from Decatur (still processing) on Cyber Monday. Same twin backed into our driveway gate post, looks like is should pull - no gashes in the paint. Just breathe, I try to...

Normal. More noticeable now with the fall temperatures. I stick to the manual - 5w30.

98 LX with 313k km's. Original owner didn't do much in the way of service (e.g. didn't change the timing belt until it needed to be towed in at 236k km (146k miles)). I did a full 3 x flush and new fluid when we got it, and it looks good. I am, however, ordering new hoses, clamps, etc. on my...

Had a big Birthday and celebrated with an oil change and driveshaft lube. Kilometers, so we are just getting broken in. Please excuse the dust.

Bulbs are all good. They dim all the way down at the same level of the regular bulbs that I haven't changed out. One thing is that the bulb for the radio raise / lower is RIGHT behind the buttons so it is quite a bit brighter than the others. If I am in there again, I will probably put...

Here's what I've got. Was replaced by previous owner a while ago.

I ordered the same ETOPARS bulbs from Amazon as albylam: https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/lx-instrument-lights.194345/post-14311702 To identify the polarity of the LEDs I used a camera battery and marked the positive side of the bulbs: The next photos shows which side is positive and which...

Do you have Techstream running? Last time I had an ABS light, I plugged in Techstream and it indicated code for a wheel sensor.

I get just under 20l/100km with about 70% highway driving. Stock with no roof rack.