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<5220f417-717a-4ce3-b67e-61607098bd18@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
Avalon1178 <Avalon1178@gmail.com> wrote:

> > No, there's a maintenance schedule. *Read your owner's manual.
>
> The only "schedule" I see in my manual is the one mentioned in pages
> 228-229 of the 2008 Hondai Civic Sedan, but this is exactly what I"m
> talking about, its not a "schedule" like you said but more of a
> "minder"

The "minder" is the result of the engine computer, which is keeping very
close track of EXACTLY how you drive the car and what wear you put on it.

The schedule is inside the computer, and the computer tells you when
your driving habits warrant a given service.

How is that so difficult to understand or accept? It's much more
precise than "well, it's been about 6 months since I've seen ol' Goober
down at the fillin' station, so it must be time."



> In my old 2005 manual, it spells
> it out such that at every 5000 mi, you change the oil, at 10000 mi you
> change oil + other stuff, at 30000 mi interval you do major service
> etc (located at the middle of the page).

And years ago we used buy and play vinyl records. Do you go to the
Apple Store, pick up an iPod, and ask the guy, "Where's the stylus?
Where do I put the record on?"?



> What "manual" are you
> talking about?

The same manual you're reading. Follow it.

Why the resistance to following it?



> > Read your owner's manual. *It spells things out quite clearly.
>
> See my reply above. Show me what page where "it spells things out
> quite clearly".

Pages 228-229.

Why the resistance to following the schedule that Honda's engineers have
spelled out? The fact that they've spelled it out only in the computer,
which is able to take into account every little aspect of how you drive
the car and therefore know exactly how much wear their components and
lubricants have received?


The old "do it every X months or Y thousand miles" was there as a best
guesstimate, because the technology wasn't built into the car to record
every cold start, every RPM load, and so on. But now that it is there,
we don't go by simple time or miles--we go by much more precise
measurements.

And those measurements are understood by the engineers who built the
car, and the results of the measurements are well understood by the
engineers who built the car.

Why the resistance to following it?