On Fri, 16 May 2008 18:39:41 -0700, jim beam wrote:

> <snip irrelevance>
>
> so not only do you disregard the owners manual with too frequent oil
> changes, you disregard it with too infrequent coolant or brake fluid
> changes. the latter being a material factor in vehicle safety.
>
> would you fly an airline that disregarded the airplane service manuals?
>
> what would it take to get you with the factory vehicle service program?

Some indication that what I'm doing is actually bad for the car.
I buy the most 'exciting' cars I can for my money, and I drive them that
way. So far, so good. I'm happy with the life span I get out of my cars.
By the time I'm done with them they're so rusty from good old New England
winters that even though the engine, transmission, clutch and other
system are in top notch condition, the body has had it.

Either that or I trade the cars in for new ones, and see my old cars
driving around for years afterwards. There's a Corolla I bought in 1987
that I just saw the other day, a bit rusty but still running.

But then, I broke it in *my* way, so I guess it should have been in the
scrap heap 10 years ago. But, the new owner must have done something to
counteract my 'abuse', right? Feh...