It's the manual reset issue. My wife's Toyota Ciena does the same damn thing. The 18-25 year olds at the lube joints don't know and probably don't care to reset the meter so to speak. It's that or they are instructed not to for liability reasons.Always reset it when you leave...take the 3 minutes in the parking lot to do it...I'm sure it's in the manual...sometimes it's a cycling of the ignition with your keys and the engine off....I'm sure it's somewhere in the manual between "we wish you would go to the dealer so we will keep this in fine print" and "darn, you found it!"....I think it's a design to push people back to the dealers in a kind of perverse way for the dealers to make more revenue.Let's face it, you own a Honda and the chances of you having to spend much time in a waiting room for repairs is somewhere between slim, and none. Couple that with the fact that few, if any, take their cars to the dealers for oil changes...who needs to run that gauntlet of unwanted, un-needed service offerings by the service manager? For those that go back, I would bet that 75% of the dealers sell them on such highly sought after items like new air filters after 3,000 miles....read the manual, save the trip, keep your money, and above all, enjoy your Honda!
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