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Don't forget to put them in the right way. :P

 

Not that Im referencing any specific situation in particular.

You do realize I'm not the one that installed that right.

 

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Filled it up with gas 2.99 for E85 it's going down again

 

 

Ryan

Jealous, it's only dropped 5 cents here, down to 3.25, had to fill up yesterday myself. Hopefully will continue to go down since 87 is 3.44. Also wish more places offered it, one station, two pumps in entire town. Next closest place is an hour away.

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You do realize I'm not the one that installed that right.

 

sent from my truck in a field

I never said you were!

Posted

91 octane at Costco for the price of 87 elsewhere isn't a bad deal, now my truck is always running on the highest octane we have here in town!

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Its not worth going to costco. It is across town and always a half hour line wait

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I was "fortunate" enough to trip some trees along a fence line and got to haul it all away with the truck. Wish I had my phone for a pic for you all. Nothing impressive, but hey, it's why I have the truck. I just "love" being one of the few who have incentive to take care of things BEFORE being yelled at to do them....

 

It's going to be a few day project as I only get a couple of hours a day then I have my office work to do to. Not sure which is worse, heat/humidity or paperwork?!?!

Posted

Its not worth going to costco. It is across town and always a half hour line wait

My local one sits between home and work, and work is 3 miles away... :D

 

And I've never had to wait more than a minute or two so no complaints from me. And the gas quality is as good as any other, I used to mainly run Shell and haven't noticed a difference.

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Well, caliper sounded like it was dragging on an express van at work so I brought it home to diagnose it:

 

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Both fronts looked the same. Guessing both of them were dragging. This sucks

 

Sent while cruising down a back road...

Posted

How does that even happen? Someone only replace half of the pads last time? Someone saw two in the box and put one on each side?

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How does that even happen? Someone only replace half of the pads last time? Someone saw two in the box and put one on each side?

Caliper piston stuck I'm guessing. Original calipers at 260k miles. Time for new ones anyways. I do the maintnance on these trucks so I was last one to do them lol

 

Sent while cruising down a back road...

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Caliper piston stuck I'm guessing. Original calipers at 260k miles. Time for new ones anyways. I do the maintnance on these trucks so I was last one to do them lol

 

Sent while cruising down a back road...

Well, I had to ask. When I was still frequenting BMW forums we had a newb who wanted to paint his calipers so he took the wheel off and sprayed EVERYthing else.

 

We were never completely sure if it was someone just trolling.

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Well, I had to ask. When I was still frequenting BMW forums we had a newb who wanted to paint his calipers so he took the wheel off and sprayed EVERYthing else.

 

We were never completely sure if it was someone just trolling.

That's hilarious. Hope he was just being stupid and joking

 

Sent while cruising down a back road...

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That's hilarious. Hope he was just being stupid and joking

 

Sent while cruising down a back road...

We never got pics. It was a "what did I so wrong" thread. There was no chance of pics after the second post was someone saying " If your really that stupid, post the pics. I have to see this"

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