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DFB said:
Can I ask, why do you guys in the US buy oil in single quart bottles? I often see this in videos or posts where several quart bottles are emptied one-by-one into the filler neck. Is this not more time consuming and wasteful in terms of more plastic bottles?

Compared to that, we would be buying larger 5 or 6-liter (5.3 or 6.3 quart) bottles and decanting from one or two of those.

Anyway, just something I have wondered for a while.
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I buy the 5-qt jugs as well. For me, my car manual says the car takes like 4.8 qts with an oil/filter change so I end up pouring 1 qt out of the jug into a 1-quart bottle. Then I put in 4 quarts from the jug and half of the 1-qt bottle and then check the oil level. If I had 1-qt bottles, I could just empty 4 and a half bottles.
 
Checked the air pressure in my tyres, all were down to between 30-30.5 psi, even the spare. I'm pretty sure that means they didn't check them at the service just over a week ago. They're all now set at 33.

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My wife's car got new tires and they over inflated them by 3 to 4 psi. It seems such as simple item to confirm correct pressure.
 
Bunky said:
My wife's car got new tires and they over inflated them by 3 to 4 psi. It seems such as simple item to confirm correct pressure.
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My tyre placard says 32 psi all round, but the tyre shops regularly put them up to 38, too high for my liking.

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I only bump up my tires when it's cooler out, certainly in the winter time for sure

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Bunky said:
My wife's car got new tires and they over inflated them by 3 to 4 psi. It seems such as simple item to confirm correct pressure.
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Possible they left them on the high side because people neglect their tires...or maybe they didn't blow them down after the bead seat pressure.
 
Went out during lunch and inflated mine to 37 (over by 1 psi to account for the higher temp right now)
 
They just never check pressure after mounted on car and on ground. They did want me to return to check wheel torque.
 
Bunky said:
They just never check pressure after mounted on car and on ground. They did want me to return to check wheel torque.
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Um...that's not very confidence inspiring...I've torqued a lot of wheels in my day...and I never thought "hmm...maybe I should recheck these after a few days" nor have I ever had any loose lugs next rotation...I did have to buy a 6 ft, 3/4-drive breaker bar to get the lug nuts off my SO's car after some dealer work...which are supposed to be torqued to 73.5 ft-lbs and I usually take off with an 18" 1/2-drive bar. (I bought the 6ft bar after the lugs laughed at my electric impact gun). Back to Bunky's experience--if "return to check wheel torque" was really a thing...there are about a million cars a week that AREN'T getting that done.

And while I'm rambling (caffeine not working yet), I think I did an experiment once, and there was no difference in tire pressure off the car vs. on the car "on the ground". I think I was doing a summer/winter changeover and I was checking the pressure on the bench and thought "oh, I should wait until these are on the car with all that weight because the pressure will be higher then"...except it wasn't, as I recall.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Um...that's not very confidence inspiring...I've torqued a lot of wheels in my day...and I never thought "hmm...maybe I should recheck these after a few days" nor have I ever had any loose lugs next rotation...I did have to buy a 6 ft, 3/4-drive breaker bar to get the lug nuts off my SO's car after some dealer work...which are supposed to be torqued to 73.5 ft-lbs and I usually take off with an 18" 1/2-drive bar. (I bought the 6ft bar after the lugs laughed at my electric impact gun). Back to Bunky's experience--if "return to check wheel torque" was really a thing...there are about a million cars a week that AREN'T getting that done.

And while I'm rambling (caffeine not working yet), I think I did an experiment once, and there was no difference in tire pressure off the car vs. on the car "on the ground". I think I was doing a summer/winter changeover and I was checking the pressure on the bench and thought "oh, I should wait until these are on the car with all that weight because the pressure will be higher then"...except it wasn't, as I recall.
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I think I mentioned in a previous post that I had to check the torque on all my wheels after my last service, I discovered at least 2 of the 6 on each wheel were way over tightened, and 1 or 2 felt like they were not tight enough, I guess maybe they just went around one after another, and didn't cross tighten them, if you know what I mean.

The over tightened ones were so tight I was worried about breaking something, which I've done before, on my brother's car. He bought a car that had basically never been serviced, a 1 owner grandma's car, and got a flat, but couldn't undo the lug nuts. So I took over the extender bar, only a 2.5 footer, and proceeded to snap 2 of the wheel studs right off. I didn't touch the remaining 2, fortunately the mechanic was only a few hundred metres from his house.

The only time I've heard rechecking things after a few days was when I had the lift kit put on the FJ, he said bring it back in a week to re-torque everything, after a couple of days I heard some noises so I got underneath and had to tighten a couple of bolts, but still went back later and had them check it again. Also I had a mechanic who recommended checking hose clamps on radiator hoses after a couple of hot-cold cycles if they've been replaced or refitted.

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Made the wife a little something for our anniversary. (It’s probably about 40mm/1.5” tall or so).

Been enjoying taking up woodworking as a hobby and actually have something bigger planned (not a bigger robot!), but I’ve been doing it mainly on my lunch break at work. Actual anniversary project is still in the drafting phase.
 
Bunky said:
They just never check pressure after mounted on car and on ground. They did want me to return to check wheel torque.
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Tire dealers ALWAYS tell me to come back and get them retorqued WHEN I BUY NEW TIRES/WHEELS

They NEVER tell me to come back for a retorque after I have them rebalanced and swapped at changeover season, which I do every couple of years mainlky for the balancing

The dealer always rotates my tires when I am there for a service and they have NEVER told me to come back and get it checked

Having said that, I ALWAYS check it myself shortly after any type of tire service because a tire store in Arizona forgot to do a final tightening and it almost ruined a set of rims and did ruin a few studs and it didn't take long at all

After I got the new winter tires and wheels for the TX I checked them and they were torqued to over 125 ft/lbs

The spec was about 100
 
chilly said:
Tire dealers ALWAYS tell me to come back and get them retorqued WHEN I BUY NEW TIRES/WHEELS

They NEVER tell me to come back for a retorque after I have them rebalanced and swapped at changeover season, which I do every couple of years mainlky for the balancing

The dealer always rotates my tires when I am there for a service and they have NEVER told me to come back and get it checked

Having said that, I ALWAYS check it myself shortly after any type of tire service because a tire store in Arizona forgot to do a final tightening and it almost ruined a set of rims and did ruin a few studs and it didn't take long at all

After I got the new winter tires and wheels for the TX I checked them and they were torqued to over 125 ft/lbs

The spec was about 100
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Odd that they wouldn't recommend after rotation since it's the same as getting new tires (i.e. the wheels need to come off the vehicle).

I'm sure you know, but the main reason to recheck after some time, ~100 miles, is to make sure lugs haven't loosened up due to heat cycling and general driving loads. More common on aluminum wheels.

I will say, in the, wait how old am I again(?), ~28 years I've been driving, when I recheck lug torque after some miles, I think I can count on one hand the number of times I found a lug less than original torque. And it was just one lug, not all lugs on one wheel. I'm sure it depends on how the vehicle is driven and temperatures.
 
Odrapnew said:
Odd that they wouldn't recommend after rotation since it's the same as getting new tires (i.e. the wheels need to come off the vehicle).

I'm sure you know, but the main reason to recheck after some time, ~100 miles, is to make sure lugs haven't loosened up due to heat cycling and general driving loads. More common on aluminum wheels.

I will say, in the, wait how old am I again(?), ~28 years I've been driving, when I recheck lug torque after some miles, I think I can count on one hand the number of times I found a lug less than original torque. And it was just one lug, not all lugs on one wheel. I'm sure it depends on how the vehicle is driven and temperatures.
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That was the point I was trying to make

Why the disparity in telling or not telling you to come back

I think part of it is the tire store wanting you to think that having them recheck it is a “value added” service and that they are going above and beyond

If you even bother it’s 5 minutes out of their day cause they don’t even need to take it into the bay but you feel warm and fuzzy after the fact

In my almost 53 years since I got a license I’m like you, I can count the number of times I found a “loose” nut/stud on one hand, other than the debacle in Arizona I mentioned when they had to have been put on hand tight

If anything they are going to be too tight and you never could have gotten one off with the little lug wrench included in most new vehicles


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