I would do several short interval (like 1k honestly) with valvoline restore and protect.
Only thing I have had to fix on it was the water pump. It started leaking at 181k miles.
I owned my cruze for 5 yrs and had no problems with the NGK iridium. I paired it with a coil pack I ripped out another cruze.
I'd use the original equipment AC Delco plug. Rockauto has them for $6.31 each, with a $3 per plug rebate offered.
Ran Autolite Iridum XP XP3922 plugs in it and had zero issues at about half the price of the NGK plugs, and I had a mild tune.
But seriously either a coolant or oil leak onto the exhaust. Valve cover gasket can leak oil and the coolant outlet from the engine is right there and breaks all the time on those things.
The new plug is AC Delco 41-156. Cannot tell any difference in my Gen 2 after replacing plugs. It ran fine before and did afterwards as well.
No, that's not normal or good.Fram is junk - my mechanic told me a good oil filter would never collapse like that.When it does, it constricts the oil and it's not filtering properly. Go with an OEM filter, or go with Mann.I do oil changes every 15k (as per manufacturer) and I used a Fram once, and it looked like that. Since then, only used Mann or OEM and they look the same when I pulled it out after 15k.Do not cheap out on oil filters.
Same on my 1.8l Cruze using a FRAM filter. no light but it built up enough pressure it blew the oil cooler seal. Milage went from 6.5l per 100 to 12.5l per 100k
Yup, they’re trash. I had the same thing happen to me in my Cruze when I used a fram oil filter. I have been using ACDelco oil filters for the last few changes with no issues.
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