by johngdole@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apr 17, 2008 at 06:51 PM
Your oil may actually be good up to 12,000 miles. No kidding.
Honda and GM brought an excellent technology to measure oil life in
cars for the m*****. Instead of dumb simple counters, they rely "on
sensors that measure oil temperature extremes and engine revolutions
over time to calculate oil life and tell drivers when to get the
lubricant changed. Oil can lose its lubricating properties if it runs
at too low or too high of a temperature."
http://www.autonews24h.com/Driving/1660.html
But looks like the system could have told you the time interval as
well (VWs do) so you can show that to the ignorant service writer.
On Apr 15, 4:38 pm, "Butch Haynes" <butch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Took my '07 Accord V6 back to the selling dealer for its first oil
change. I
> bought the car just over 11 months ago, the maintenance minder showed 5%
oil
> life left with 6570 miles on the odometer-- I don't drive much...
>
> The service writer starting chewing my ass for going beyond 6 months for
the
> oil change. I showed him the Owner's Manual where it says to change the
oil
> the first time at one year if the oil life minder didn't call for a
change
> yet. I also mentioned that I had been concerned about going so long on
the
> oil and had called American Honda around 6 months ago and they said to
leave
> that first oil in there until the minder said to change it or a year was
up.
>
> So what's what?
