Finally getting a break from the snow. Time to prep the cars for Spring starting with an oil change for Scarlett.
Mileage: 173,690
- 11.5 quarts Driven GP-1 20W-50
- Mahle OC54 oil filter
Finally getting a break from the snow. Time to prep the cars for Spring starting with an oil change for Scarlett.
The Mini is now 5 years old so I was expecting the battery to start going bad soon. Well it seems the cold weather has started to finally reveal its impending doom by borderline being unable to start in freezing temperatures so I wanted to get ahead of it and replace it before it truly dies.
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Original BMW is finally dying |
Removing it is a bit fiddly with a few panels that need to get taken out for clearance but I'm glad it's not really as bad as some videos made it out to be where they even removed the intake. I'm not sure if it's because I have the Eventuri intake but after I removed the front panel, it was easy enough to slide up and out.
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New Duralast Platinum AGM battery installed |
The battery in Bumblestook is about 5 years old now and while the battery still seems ok, I didn't really want to risk having it die on me at a track day so I picked up a new Antigravity ATX-30-HD battery to replace the existing ATX-30-HD.
Weather is getting colder and starting to see salt on the roads to it's time think about packing up the cars for the winter. In preparation, time to get the old oil out of the Cayman and put in the fresh stuff.
Maintenance Update:
Mileage: 53,870
- 8.5 quarts Driven DT-40
- NAPA gold filter
Just noting maintenance done on the Jeep.
Maintenance Update:
Mileage: 80,982
- New mopar oil filter
- 6qt Castrol Edge 5W-20
For the past few months I noticed something odd, every now and then I'd have the 911 on my CTEK charger but it'd throw an error that the battery wasn't holding charge. I figured that my battery was just dying but it's really only been 3 years. Still after the battery just wouldn't charge anymore, I bought a brand new battery and noticed the same thing was happening. I decided to check for any draw on the battery while the car was off and key out of the ignition and it measured 370mA. That's way too high especially for an "old car" with barely any electronics.
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370mA of draw |
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35mA static draw with the new ignition switch |
It's been about a year now since the last oil change. We've only logged about 6K miles on the car since then. I'd normally change the oil at around the 5K mark but I think this is fine. Oil level has been rock solid. Haven't had to top it off or anything like that.
Maintenance Update:
Mileage: 77,141
- 5L Liquimoly 0W-20
- New Mahle oil filter
- New oil filter housing (messed up the plastic drain screw last time so replaced the whole thing with a new housing this time)
- New oil drain copper washer
- New rubber oil drain gasket