Cupcake? Heresy? Pony? 4 stacks of plexi?
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You must be in Houston.
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east of 35. same difference
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Our tire shops have gotten stupid with worries over liability.
If you buy new tires, they put them on the rear.
The logic is that bald rear tires can cause a spin-out.
But when you come back to have the fronts changed, the rear tires are now measuring less than the front, so they move them to the front and put the new tires on the rear.
Then they won't rotate them because the fronts are lower than the rear.
Wife's Venza has somehow managed to chew through the fronts in less than 15,000 miles... rears still have plenty, but the shop won't rotate them.
Mine generally wear very evenly, so I rarely bother with a rotation unless I need to go in for a flat repair.
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That's an impossibility out here... at least at the chains.
Radials, they absolutely will not cross-rotate.
At some point in the past, there was apparently a problem with the belts breaking if the rotation was reversed.... of course, in the 80s, directional tread became a thing and most tires these days are directional, so cross-rotation would mean dismounting and flipping them on the wheel.
There are a lot of myths that persist in the auto "care" world.
3000 mile oil changes. That's recreational oil changing, a waste of money, and bad for the environment.
No auto maker has ever recommended 3000 miles.
I went back through Toyota service manuals as far back as I could (early 80s) and they were always 5,000 for severe service, 7,500 for normal driving.
Early 2000's, they added a maintenance light, which was a 5,000 mile clock, and they dropped the 7.500 mile option.
Then in 2010, they started going to 0w20 synthetic and 10,000 mile intervals.
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Well, beans are good for you. Gotta get them veggies every day!
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you're doing it wrong. again.
front to back and back to front. never cross rotate radial tires, you can split the belts and cause blowouts.
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where do you go so that clouds look different?
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I’m in Hutto. Northeast of Austin.
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Morning guys.
Having more coffee before I get ready and go pick up my new glasses, and then saw up a huge royal palm frond that dropped last night.
Suckers are 14 feet long and weigh about 40 pounds!
Ya don’t want one to fall on your car that’s for sure.
We got the boat races in Cocoa Beach this weekend. Might try to go, but momma is going to Europe for two weeks on Monday, so we may not have time.
Happy Friday!
Having more coffee before I get ready and go pick up my new glasses, and then saw up a huge royal palm frond that dropped last night.
Suckers are 14 feet long and weigh about 40 pounds!
Ya don’t want one to fall on your car that’s for sure.
We got the boat races in Cocoa Beach this weekend. Might try to go, but momma is going to Europe for two weeks on Monday, so we may not have time.
Happy Friday!
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