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Replying to: mem4 (Jun 13, 2006 11:15 am)
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Replying to: mem4 (Jun 13, 2006 11:15 am) Mike Murrell |
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Replying to: badgerfan (Jun 13, 2006 12:42 pm) |
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| Outside of a dealer does anyone have experience with a good place to get a 2006 Oil Change (ie: National chains etc.)Thanks! | |
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Replying to: highlander7 (Mar 15, 2003 6:23 pm) Yes, you are right. It is a bad design. The angle and underneath the manifold. Very non logical. abfisch |
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Replying to: kersten (May 27, 2006 6:01 am) |
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Hello everyone. I have 2006 Avalon and I'm approaching the 15K mile mark. Has anyone gotten the 15K mile service from the dealer? Is/Was that necessary. I read the manual and many of the things says "check" rather than "replace" The dealer tells me the book is wrong and they replace many items. He tells me if I don't get this service done, I could void my Warranty. In the past, I've always gotten 30K and 60K service on all my previous cars and they've run well. Honda and Nissan. Any suggestions
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Replying to: sanandton (Nov 07, 2004 5:54 pm) David
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Replying to: unknown (Nov 07, 2006 3:30 pm) Roland |
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Replying to: unknown (Nov 08, 2006 3:00 am) I work in Northern Canada, for one of Canada's largest producers of Synthetic Crude Oil. (450,000BPD) Synthetic oil will not hurt your car from new. As you mentioned it is a factory fill for many cars. Where I live we see -45C temps and regular regular oil just won't stay fluid. Synthetic oil is out of the ground just like what you'll here people call Dino oil. The difference is how it is hydrotreated (removal of sulfur and nitrogen as Hydrogen sulphide gas and ammonia respectively and turning Hydrogen double bonds, into single bonds removing diolefins & olefins which are the waxes in your oil]. The process of upgrading the synthetic oil, also equals a very consistant molecular weight. Which is why it flows well in cold and doesn't break down in heat. They do not need to add as many additives to the oil to make it perform in minus degrees or plus degrees. Non-synthetic oil may have some molecules that are a weight of 1 and some that are a weight of 100, but the average comes to 5 (this differece increases the need for additives to make the oil exibit the desired weight properties, pour point, flash point, froc point etc...). Where in synt the weight comes very close to 5 across the different cut points of the oil > less need for additives I know that is alot of detail, but in short Synthetic oil and "regular oil" can come from the same base stock, the difference is in the upgrading. Where I work we extract the oil from sand (oil sand). The difference is how it is treated before it gets to you. Hope that helps, Netwon |
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