Its the oil filter you should worry about with the switch to synthetic. Make sure to get one that can last as long as the oil between changes. I started using synthetic but failed to upgrade my filters and had one near collapse and one come apart in my hand when I changed the oil at the longer inter...

.......top with bottled water or tap....it really doesn't matter....don't go buying battery water rip off.... Statement is dead wrong! The minerals in tap water or drinking water can really screw up the battery chemistry. Use nothing but pure distilled water. Not distilled drinking water, use the s...

Pure water is tasteless, it will not react with your taste buds at all. The drinking water bottlers add stuff back in after the water is purified to give it taste. If the water has any taste at all ,do not put it in your battery. If the water has no taste what so ever, it is the good stuff.

Back in the days of unregulated battery chargers, getting the cells to a "boil" and causing them to off-gas was not unusual. But you'd need to be in a pretty confined space to even approach a hazard. The only time I've ever known a battery to explode was when an impatient freshman brought ...

Rattnalle wrote: ↑11 Aug 2018, 01:22 Seriously though. A battery that had been properly flat won't ever be reliable again as a starter so just get a new one straight away.

I have brought starter batteries back from deep dead. It does take more time then most people can be without a battery.

Seriously though. A battery that had been properly flat won't ever be reliable again as a starter so just get a new one straight away. I have brought starter batteries back from deep dead. It does take more time then most people can be without a battery. They will never be anywhere near as good as ...

@viper69: that's some testimonial! Do the vendors know about this post? They should be paying you a commission. Looks like the one I'll be installing.

There is some information to say that with an older car you may see issues. But you are using a blend which should be no real issue. European cars have used these for 30 years or so like Audi/Volkswagen. I have changed my last 5 P80 Volvos to synthetic as I do little mileage as they tend to absorb l...

NGK is premium brand of spark plugs Neil,along with EYQUEM(which Volvo use as O.E in triple prong version).I wrote about this last time i replaced spark plugs.I don't remember markings for NGK ones right now(which is also used as Volvo O.E) but i have it somewhere written down. Correct ones for n/a ...

viper69 wrote: ↑21 Sep 2018, 00:03 ...When should one replace wires and distributor cap? More importantly what signs does the car give to indicat those 2 items need to be replaced?

Pretty much what you're experiencing right now.