Question re first 3 month service

i think that has more to do with domestic oil formulations being
somewhat inferior to european ones - and the underestimation thereof.
and the problem of getting your oil changed at monkeylube. at least if
you specify synthetic and it's not used, there's recourse. if you
specified castrol [for instance] /nobody/ would pay attention.

 

Yup... A huge overhead valve straight eight!

You could see the gas gauge go down as so did the gas pedal...

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JT

 

Where did you copy the maintenance info from? Please.

 

I have a 1950 Roadmaster right now!

 

Four door? Black?? Maybe it's the same one...

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JT

 

really??? I thought DSG is only found on certain VWs and even those
are far in between. Are you referring to the DSG clone in the upcoming
evo?
That car hasn't even been released to reviewers let alone the driving
public yet. Would you please be specific which technological
marvels you are referring to? found in which cars, specifically?
we're not marketing here and don't like things to me left to
imagination

 

"Slushboxes" were non-geared trannies. The venerable Dynaflow - the tranny
that gave rise to the term - was a fluid coupled torque converter with a
manual granny underdrive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynaflow); thus
"slushbox" to denote the coupling didn't involve gears. If you know of
things today that uses such an arrangement, please enlighten me. Even manual
trannies are lubricated, so having liquid in the gearbox isn't the issue.
Almost anything built in the last decade uses a lockup torque converter so
fluid coupling isn't normally going on there - the torque converter is
mostly a clutch.

Then there was Renault's powdered iron magnetic clutch on the electrically
shifted manual tranny to make it fully automatic, back in the '60s... as dry
as any manual tranny

Mike

 

I believe that Studebaker was the pioneer with regards to lock up
converters with the Automatic Drive introduced in 1950.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Drive


JT

 

i think you would've made one helluva flesh eating lawyer,
or at least some kind of a politician, did anyone tell you that
before?

 

I am a Service Advisor in a Honda dealership..We advise on the newer
vehicles to watch your oil life...at 15% you should call for a Service
appointment.This is by American Honda Standards.There are two schedules
for maintence for Honda Vehicles one for the older and one for the newer
vehicles..if you dont put a lot of miles on a new vehicle an oil change
should be done in at least 6 months..The older 3 months or 3,000
miles...We don't want to make any extra money off of you , we make our
money off of people who DON'T take care of their cars.

 

Sorry... engineer, not lawyer. I do get wound up in pointless discussions,
though :-}

Mike

 

Heh... Engineers often can be held in contempt too!

Don'tcha think that them thar' guys that design things, (and the process
guys that follow), where you hafta take apart half the car to replace an
alternator whould be tied spread eagled across a Texas fire ant mound maybe?

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JT

(A retired process engineer (mfg) who tried to minimize product service
issues)

 

The little wrench in my Odyssey lit up the other day, when the oil
life indicator turned to 15%, so you're right on, Marcia! Time for the
oil change, I guess.....

Dan D
'07 Ody EX
Central NJ USA