My daughter used to live in Oregon when she was in her teens and so her best friend has a baby girl now born within a week of her baby girl. So, She was visiting her friend and other friends in southern Oregon while my wife and I waited for them to return to Mt. Shasta where we had tandemed up to. My daughter's car that I keep here in California for her while she is living in Europe with her husband and baby was in the shop so they gave us a loaner.
I found out something about Subaru all wheel drives. What I found out is that some of their engines are sensitive to the Synthetic oil used now in cars. ON the one level Synthetic oil doubles or triples the life of most engines. However, in Some Subaru engines if the synthetic oil isn't changed often enough it starts to eat away at the Cam Shaft. When I was growing up we called this the Crankshaft because the crank to manually start really old cars was attached to the Cam Shaft or Crank Shaft. So, it's the lifter area of the Cam Shaft that can get eaten away and then you need to replace the Cam Shaft.
So, how do you prevent this problem? As I presently understand it you make sure to warm up your car enough before driving it at all. Just let it warm up.
The 2nd thing is you change the oil every 3 months whether you are driving this car or not. Then another way to extend engine life in your car is to change the transmission oil every 6 months. This will greatly extend engine life too.
Anyway, I was amazed that this happened, obviously, and they gave us a loaner which is a brand new Subaru 2025 to drive for free while my daughter's car was in the shop because they didn't want us to take it until they were sure all the seals were set properly. They didn't want us to blow a seal driving that far unless they tested the new camshaft enough to be sure all the seals would hold.
So, as a result they gave us a loaner for driving all the way to Oregon which my daughter and husband and 15 month or daughter drove in north and south.
Then we hit tule fog coming south at about Redding which was very strange but it's been like this for 10 or 20 days throughout the Sacramento Valley. I thought we were going to have to drive through the San Francisco TRaffic and we were going to hit it around 3 or 4 pm from Mt. Shasta which I wasn't looking forward to on a week day.
However, when we stopped in Williams my daughter ran google Maps GPS and caculated that it was faster to go through Santa Nella and by the San Luis Reservoir that time of day.
So, we realized that that was the way to go because we realized that if people couldn't see for driving through the Tule Fog that it wasn't that bad so we headed south to Santa Nella instead of driving through the Bay area. The Santa Nella route takes you all the way from Mt. Shasta to Santa Nella past Sacramento and STockton to Santa Nella.
The trick with this route is you need to get past Sacramento and Stockton BEFORE about 3 pm and usually you won't hit traffic unless they are working on the road or something. But, driving in the afternoon on Friday afternoon is tricky anywhere in the U.S. because of potentially rush hour traffic. But, luckily we made it through Stockton by about 2 pm which was good.
The other odd thing besides the Tule Fog was that it stayed between 46 and 48 degrees all the way from Redding past San Luis Reservoir and the worst fog was actually around the summit of 152 on the Pacheco pass.
So, we still arrrived home by 6 pm after leaving around 10 AM from Mt. Shasta so we were very pleased with ourselves to have had a pretty good trip despite the constant cold Tule Fog from Redding through Casa De Fruta on 152 heading towards the coast.
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