Oil & Miles

What your car actually costs to keep running. Repair costs, oil specs, used-car faults. Every figure traced to a recall, a schedule or the complaint record.

[Oil & Miles @oilandmiles]

Read a repair estimate as three columns, not one total.

Book time, stacked labor, shop supplies and unnamed parts. The five lines that inflate it, and the questions that deflate them:
https://t.co/oLC0iUgK3z

[Oil & Miles @oilandmiles]

The Honda CR-V 1.5T oil dilution problem is real, but the car is still a good used buy if you check it.

Which years to avoid, and how to check one before you buy, counted from the complaint record:
https://t.co/pBsIvARGSl

[Oil & Miles @oilandmiles]

Coolant color is marketing, not chemistry.

Two coolants the same color can be incompatible, and two different colors can be identical. Match the additive package your manual names, not the dye:
https://t.co/LjbAAzpO7h

[Oil & Miles @oilandmiles]

Brake pads and rotors: $280 to $650 per axle. The gap is almost all labor, not parts.

How to read your quote so you know which side of that range is fair:
https://t.co/PJjUudFhYe

[Oil & Miles @oilandmiles]

Put 5W-30 in a 0W-20 engine once? A healthy engine will not notice. Do it for years and it is worth sorting.

One of the two numbers matters far more than the other. Which, and why:
https://t.co/zXpGJIVn6F

[Richard Bravo @18richardbravo]

Nissan Z-car History & Reputation
Read more at my PostBit blog:
https://t.co/XIwCV9seIb

[Oil & Miles @oilandmiles]

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