524,000km/328,000mile 2015 Mirage amazing, engine teardown extravaganza

[Fummins]

I'll try to get the pics and vijeo together for this one one of these days. Hopefully I got enough video and pics of the engine cause I already tossed it in the scrap bin.

And then, maybe onto a 2017 engine...

[Basic]

Keystone. I haven't been able to find the regular stuff in the red cans for about a year now, been stuck buying the blue light stuff. Desperate times...The dog likes it too. I blame the smell on him.

Keystone Premium is so hard to find! It's been longer than a year for me... ages in fact.

[Wallythacker]

I wanted to see how long I could make the title for this thread. Because I like turtles.

Today I want to have an adult conversation about gardening and how ph levels in the water you feed your plants affect growth. Please, keep non-gardening posts to other threads or you'll have your fingers lopped off as per new forum rules.































































































































I'll try to piece together a quick vijeo of the inards of what I consider a high mileage Mirage engine. I'll dig up a clip showing the noise this one was making. It was similar to what my first 2014 sounded like with 36k kms. It felt a bit down on power as well.

This car had 12k km oil changes done for the first 400,000km and used mainly on the highway doing 70mph putting on over 500km/day on average. Ran 0w20 it's entire life. Started with mobil 1, then klondike around the 250k km mark(in early 2017).
Here's a sneak peek.


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Buddy, put down the tube of glue and paper bag and slowlllllllly back away

[Fummins]

Buddy, put down the tube of glue and paper bag and slowlllllllly back away

It’s Lysol not glue.