In B.C., the reason why Severe might be in place is because

1) Not many highways to drive over 60mph.
2) Traffic lights are almost on every street corner
3) It's a hilly environment, depending where you drive.

Adrian


"NewsPosts" <nospam@adelphianot.netvalid> wrote in message
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>
>
> On 4/7/2004 11:42 PM, John Horner wrote:
>
> > I was looking up some service interval information for my '03 Honda
Accord
> > today and noticed that Honda says for US customers to use the normal
service
> > schedule unless certain conditions are met (frequent short trips, etc.
etc.)
> > but that Canadians should always use the severe service interval
schedule.
> > This correlates to oil changes every 7,500 miles for US residents but
every
> > 3,750 for Canadians?
> >
> > This is rather peculiar to me. Ontario is by far the most populated
province
> > of Canada and it's climate is largely similar to that of Michigan,
Upstate
> > New York, Vermonth, New Hampshire and Maine. Prevailing weather
conditions
> > are not enough to explain Honda's doings.
> >
> > Does this have something to do with different fuel formulations in
Canada,
> > or is it more evidence of things other than good engineering being
behind
> > Honda's recommendations?
> >
> > John
>
> I live in Northern Vermont, and my dealer insists that the "severe"
> schedule is what must be followed, based on Honda America, since we're
> so close to Canada. What I really want to know is - what do they do in
> British Columbia, where the weather is mild most of the year? Do they
> follow the "severe" schedule, too?