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I guess I've just been burning my money..... :banghead:
Depends. At least you get anti-gel in that stuff, which might be useful this time of year up where you are, in the Great White North. ;)

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Meh.... I've got at least 100k miles using this placebo juice across 3 different CR TDIs and haven't had pump or injector issues yet, so my personal experience will have to trump the utoob reviews in my case ;)
 
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Not to mention that winter mix temps aren't feasible with the good stuff
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haven't had pump or injector issues yet,
While there were clear winners and losers in terms of lubricity an cetane boost, what they didn't test is any of those products ability to keep injectors and other fuel system components clean, which is of course another important factor.

Not to mention that winter mix temps aren't feasible with the good stuff
Here's a test with a focus on winter additives:


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Thought this was worthy of sharing. How ammunition is made. A tour of the Sellier & Bellot factory in the Czech Republic.

 

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I think there is good ,universal, advice (and knowledge) in this video. So, just Insert VW/Audi in place of Toyota and Lexus. A long video, but good observations and experiences by the creator.

I understand this is well known knowledge here on the forum, but it seems to be at a all time high ; including fraudulent parts.


 

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Cold is coming! (looking at you, PA!) Edit: oops, thanks for the edit/movement.:o

 
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Yeah, forecast for early next week has lows of 3F and 5F in Lansdale....
Revised forecast is now even colder. Here it is with socialist metric units for you guys:

Brrr-Metric.png

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Revised forecast is now even colder. Here it is with socialist metric units for you guys:

View attachment 2730

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Do you really believe that, or you are joking?

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Unites hm and dam exist but I don't think they are used in real life. I only remember using them in primary school. I remember also using dm with chemestry.

The remaining ones are widely used and to convert the units, only the decimal point changes.

1 km is 1000 m. 1 m is 0,001 km.

1 m is 100 cm or 1000 mm and so on.

The conversion between inches (2,54 cm), feet (30,48 cm), yards (91,44 cm) and miles (~= 1,6 km) is not direct like metric conversions... My height is 175 cm. Do you want meters? Sure, 1,75 m :D .

Regardind weather, where I live, winters are not extreme, but sometimes nights and mornings are very cold. This year already, the minimum that I saw was 1 ºC, but some coworkers saw -3 ºC.

I didn't mind to try to live in a place where in certain parts of the year I have temperatures below 0 ºC.
 

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Do you really believe that, or you are joking?
It's a joke -- sort of.

I was transplanted to the USA at age 7-1/2 in the middle of second grade, at which point I already had a pretty understanding of the metric system. Then I had to learn the US system (which is mostly, but not entirely the same as the British Imperial system) and I thought this system was, just plain stupid for precisely the reasons you specify. Why 12 inches in a foot and 5280 feet in a mile? Or 16 ounces in a pound? Or 128 (fluid) ounces in a gallon, and a gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds? IT MAKES NO SENSE.

But a couple of decades later, I came to accept that we Americans are not going to give it up in our every-day lives. In fact we flaunt our use of freedom units. :D

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Do you really believe that, or you are joking?

Asked by the guy that can't even get a DECIMAL right. :p The DECIMAL POINT is a period, not a comma. Comma is a thousands separator.

They both stem from the Arabic numeral system which used something that looks like a comma for both, but the decimal separator was a smaller "comma" than the thousands separator, hence why Europe substituted a period for it. But somewhere along the way, part of the world got it backwards. :confused:

EDIT: Modern unicode has also done nothing to help with the confusion. They eliminated the curve from the Arabic thousands separator for reasons unknown.

Arabic decimal
Arabic thousands

I have no idea why Europe flipped (and the British Empire subsequently forced it anywhere they colonized or conquered).
 
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Why 12 inches in a foot and 5280 feet in a mile? Or 16 ounces in a pound? Or 128 (fluid) ounces in a gallon, and a gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds? IT MAKES NO SENSE.
 
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Asked by the guy that can't even get a DECIMAL right. :p The DECIMAL POINT is a period, not a comma. Comma is a thousands separator.

They both stem from the Arabic numeral system which used something that looks like a comma for both, but the decimal separator was a smaller "comma" than the thousands separator, hence why Europe substituted a period for it. But somewhere along the way, part of the world got it backwards. :confused:

EDIT: Modern unicode has also done nothing to help with the confusion. They eliminated the curve from the Arabic thousands separator for reasons unknown.

Arabic decimal
Arabic thousands

I have no idea why Europe flipped (and the British Empire subsequently forced it anywhere they colonized or conquered).
The decimal separator is not standardized:
1920px-DecimalSeparator.svg.png


At the end of the day, I think we both understand each other. Another example, I speak "-It costs 200 dollars", so I write 200$. Number followed by the currency. But you who use English as your first language write $200 or £200.

I think that these differences can be attributed to the historic rivalry between France and England.
 

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Do you want to check a fuse..... Use your I-phone! Who knew!

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