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

On Wed, 14 May 2008 23:54:26 -0700, SMS wrote:

> Hachiroku ハチロク wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 May 2008 20:57:15 -0700, SMS wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
> 
> So why didn't you change the oil every 1000 miles or every 500 miles? It
> would have had the same effect on longevity as 3000 mile oil changes or
> 5000 mile oil changes. Don't you want to buy all the cheap insurance you
> can buy?

That added what, again? Now you're just being a jackass. 


> 
>>> 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. Matter of fact, no problems at all,
>> hardly.
> 
> You seem to think that getting 200,000 miles out of a car is some
> spectacular achievement that requires doing far more maintenance than
> necessary.

Works for me. I've been getting high mileage on my cars since the early
70's. Not only that, but they LOOK new, too.

I buy cars I like, and want to have them for a while. So I take care of
them. The few that I have sold have gone to their owners in pristine shape
and running like new. 

Some of us like to have nice things.

> 
>> Maintenance is a wonderful thing.
>> 
>> Phew...
> 
> Recreational oil changing is pretty wasteful. All the experts agree that
> there is no additional benefit to the engine from changing the oil that
> often.


Gee, this expert just told you he routinely gets 225-270,000 miles out of
his cars with no problems. Don't listen well, do you?