Re: Plan on driving a new car on a 3000mile highway trip. Bad idea?

On Thu, 15 May 2008 05:46:19 -0700, jim beam wrote:

> Hachiroku ハチロク wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 May 2008 20:57:15 -0700, SMS wrote:
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>>> Hachiroku ハチロク wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm old-school. I drive a car 1500 miles and then do the first oil
>>>> change. Then I do the next one at 3000 miles, and every 3-3500 after
>>>> that.
>>> Bad idea to do the first oil change at 1500 miles, and totally
>>> unnecessary, with absolutely no benefit, of doing 3000 mile oil
changes
>>> after that.
>> 
>> Been doing it for a long time. Seems to work. I have a couple of 20
year
>> old cars here.
>> 
>> 
>>>> I also had 3 cars go over 250,000 miles without burning oil.
>>> LOL. with 3000 mile oil changes you never knew whether they burned oil
>>> or not.
>> 
>> 4 quarts going in, 4 quarts coming out, no smoke from the tailpipe.
>> Sounds good to me.
>> 
>>>> Of course, with newer cars and a V6, things are different now, but I
>>>> would still take it pretty easy for the first 1500 miles, and stop
and
>>>> have the oil changed.
>>> Never change the oil at 1500 miles on a new car.
>> 
>> 
>> Why? I do it all the time and get rewarded with cars that go >200,000
>> miles with no oil related problems.
> 
> you're such a bull****er.  if you're doing 1500 mile break-in changes
> "all the time", you /must/ be buying new cars "all the time".  so you
> can't have "a couple of 20 year old cars here".  or if you /do/ have the
> 20 year old cars, you're not doing those break-in changes.

Wanna bet?
You act like you know a lot, but I'm beginning to think you don't know
sh!t. Except for being a troll, of course. 

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> 
>> Matter of fact,
> 
> "fact"????  a "fact" is not something you make up to suit some story you
> want to tell.

Fact is, you're a dipweed.

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> 
>> no problems at all,
>> hardly.
> 
> apart from the loose wingnut behind the steering wheel.

I could drive rings around you. I have over a million miles under my belt,
in cars that I've had for 6 years or more. The only reason I was getting a
new car every couple of years here and there is either because my wife
wanted one, or some jackass like you that should be taking the bus would
ruin one on me.

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> 
>> Maintenance is a wonderful thing.
>> 
>> Phew...
>>