Sorry, no, leave the break in oil in until the car tells you it needs
changing, any dealer worth their salt will tell you that. Oil changes at
pre set intervals are no longer the rule....They do however turn a nice
profit for the dealership if you insist....but as impressed as I am you
owned a BMW (not) which....well makes you an expert because?
I however do not claim to be an expert, so, do as you wish it is after all
your money, it is however our planet and with any luck you will use a
dealership that properly recycles (under)used oil.

<rev_otis_mcnatt@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Oct 14, 10:39 pm, "Justbob30" <justbo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Uh yes, I know. My question is about resetting after various service
> is 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 :-).
>
> I am actually quite an expert on the subject of oil changes, but I
> digress.
> I am a former BMW owner and always did my own service, but this
> Honda MM is new to me. This 5k oil change is for the car's first
> off-the-assembly-line oil change. The dealership thinks they are
> going to get to do the service work on the car and already has
> me scheduled for this initial 5k oil change--which is not a bad
> idea for any new car with factory oil in a brand new engine.
> But the popular myth of oil changes every 3k miles being
> a swell idea....it is overkill, and wasteful. 5-8k mile oil changes
> are the best window to shoot for for most drivers. I'm not a big
> fan of going more than about 8500 miles on the same oil, synthetic
> or conventional.
>
>
>>
>> <rev_otis_mcn...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:c6a0bf7d-26f1-4dc5-a57b-4b2b751ac6fb@1g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>> > 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.- Hide quoted text -
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