Here's an idea, let the maintenance minder do its job, it will tell you
based on several things which are monitored when service needs to be done.
Changing your oil at 5,000 miles is wasteful of both your money and a
natural resource. Depending on your driving conditions you may need to
change at 5k, maybe 10k but, maybe not, why waste? let go, let Honda :-).

<rev_otis_mcnatt@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I've just bought an 09 Accord. A couple of little questions please...
>
> Never had a honda before. This Memory Minder that tells us when
> things need to be done, etc.... I've read the manual well, but one
> thing
> that isn't clear to me. Let's say I do my first oil change at 5k
> miles,
> and reset the Minder's oil indicator back to 100%. This of course
> should not effect the Minder's tracking of the other things that won't
> need to be done till later, right? I know this may seem dumb,
> but they don't cover this at all in the manual.
>
> Let's say, on down the road, say at 20k miles or so, I get the little
> symbol that I need to change the air filter. After I change that,
> and reset the air filter tracking, I wouldn't want to also reset
> the oil change tracking without changing the oil, etc., etc.
> I assume that with one or more symbols lit on the cluster,
> I would be able to toggle to reset each one as I do the maintenance.
> Is this the way it works?
>
> Also, I seem to have a minor steering wheel shimmy at around
> 60-65 mph. The car has new Michelins and the car only had
> 6 miles on it when I bought it. I wonder if those little air pressure
> sensors could present a wee bit of a problem for wheel balancing.
> Also, about these sensors in the tires, when the time comes
> for buying new tires, I assume they will just remove the things
> and put them in the new tires. Correct? Do some people just
> do away with these things after a while. I frankly don't need them
> myself as I always keep tabs on things like proper air pressure
> in my tires. We do like the car though, and hope to drive
> it a LONG time. Thanks for any good feedback.
>