Q: When was the last time you...

[Habbibie]

Checked your battery voltage?
Checked your alternator voltage output?
Checked your oil level?
Checked your transmission fluid level?
Checked your coolant level?
Checked your power steering fluid?
Checked your brake fluid?
Changed your differentials fluid?
Checked your tire pressure?
Checked your spare tire pressure?
Made sure spare tire hoist works properly?
Checked your windshield washer fluid?
You rotated your tires?

For me, all were checked today 08/14/2017

 

[ChrisOIFdoc]

The last time I checked them all.

 

[Hayes Riviere]

Damn, thanks for reminding me. I haven't checked them in a while. Count that 8/15/17 since I'm probably going to tackle it tomorrow.

 

[Habbibie]

Damn, thanks for reminding me. I haven't checked them in a while. Count that 8/15/17 since I'm probably going to tackle it tomorrow.

Haha that's pretty much the whole point of this thread, to remind one another.

 

[jeff kushner]

Thanks Habb but I think I checked them all this morning(except tire pressures,spare tire hoist)....when I started my engine!

OK...but it's better to be a smart ass than a ********!

jeff

 

[ExpeditionAndy]

I checked tire pressure cold the night before we drove to PA last week. Each tire was at 34.9 PSI since they had nitrogen in them I didn't bother to top them off.

 

[Adieu]

Now plastidip that nastyazz spare steelie...

On a side note, wth ford, why does my 4x police steelies SSV still have a mismatched DIFFERENT steelie (like yours) for the spare????

 

[ChrisOIFdoc]

When was the last time you drank a case of beer around midnight, while fishing off a boat dock in a swamp? Then you and your cousin eyeballed a canoe, and said "hey..,let's go alligator hunting" and you say "OK! What are we hunting them with?" And he says "these oars" and you say "Great idea! Let's go!" And off you go into the swamp, in the middle of the night, in a little canoe, ready to battle an angry alligator......with wooden oars?

True story....that's why I only drink whiskey now

 

[Adieu]

I checked tire pressure cold the night before we drove to PA last week. Each tire was at 34.9 PSI since they had nitrogen in them I didn't bother to top them off.

Air and nitrogen are pretty much the same damn thing....literally

 

[ExpeditionAndy]

Air and nitrogen are pretty much the same damn thing....literally

Except air has 21% oxygen which is a smaller molecule and it has the ability to more easily pass through the compounds in the rubber. I noticed that the tires hold pressure more constantly with the nitrogen and all I have to do is go down the street to the tire shop and they top it off anytime I want them to put more nitrogen in the tires.

 

[Adieu]

Except air has 21% oxygen which is a smaller molecule and it has the ability to more easily pass through the compounds in the rubber. I noticed that the tires hold pressure more constantly with the nitrogen and all I have to do is go down the street to the tire shop and they top it off anytime I want them to put more nitrogen in the tires.

But!!! If you DO buy into that, then after the oxygen allegedly passes out.....youre STILL left with nitrogen!!!!

 

[ExpeditionAndy]

But!!! If you DO buy into that, then after the oxygen allegedly passes out.....youre STILL left with nitrogen!!!!

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/how-to/a3894/4302788/
https://www.tirebuyer.com/education/nitrogen-vs-air
https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=191
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2007/10/nitrogen-in-tires-q-a/index.htm

 

[USMCBuckWild]

Science.........

 

[JExpedition07]

Am I the only one who replaces this in my truck? It shocks me how much the average driver skips out on easy upkeep.

 

[Habbibie]

LoL what is actually inside that bottle?

 

[Adieu]

Am I the only one who replaces this in my truck? It shocks me how much the average driver skips out on easy upkeep.

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Yesterday an Airport Marina Ford (Los Angeles CA) dealership parts guy tried to tell me my desire to replace heater hoses was a blinker fluid myth....propagated, and i quote, by old farts like his own pops with 25 year outdated sensibilities and that "new technologies" meant that was no longer necessary...

Note that this is an '09 and clearly out of warranty, so not a claim or complaint but an attempt to spend money at his employer's place of business...

Im like *******. I. CAN. LITERALLY. SEE. COOLANT. DRIPS. UNDER. ONE. AND. WANT. TO. REPLACE. THE. OTHER. ONE. TOO. CUZ. IT. LOOKS. TO. BE. SAME. AGE. AND. ROUGHLY. SAME. CONDITION.

Then i hung up and called the long beach dealership. Whose phone extensions might be all jacked up, but whose employees are normal sensible human beings and good workers.


...not all blinker fluid is created equally it seems

 

[John Christopher]

Am I the only one who replaces this in my truck? It shocks me how much the average driver skips out on easy upkeep.

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That's pretty funny. By the way I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I'd like to sell.

 

[ChrisOIFdoc]

LoL what is actually inside that bottle?

Blinker fluid....DUUUHHH!!!

 

[Pappy]

WOW!!! That stuff is almost as scarce as radiator shims for a '69 VW Beetle.