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wbcooksey · 10-27-2007, 05:57 PM

I'm ignoring my maintenance-minder also. I got 160k out of my 98 civic doing oil changes every 3k miles with standard Quaker State (not even a “blend”) and cheap oil filters (170k out of the previous accord doing the same thing). I never had a single problem with the 98 civic engine in 9 years, and it still ran great when I traded it in.

I WILL concede that changing oil every 3k miles might be a bit aggressive these days, so now I'm changing every 5k on my 07 R18. My stupid-ass maintenance minder never gets below 30% when I bring it in. I can tell the service guys REALLY want to tell me to wait, but they don't. And I'm not into rotating my tires every 10k either. I want to squeeze every last millimeter of tread out of them, so I rotate every 6k.

I already have 12k on the car in only 6 months.

William
03 Pilot + 07 Civic

10-27-2007, 05:57 PM	#6 (permalink)
wbcooksey Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 19 iTrader: 0 / 0%	I'm ignoring my maintenance-minder also. I got 160k out of my 98 civic doing oil changes every 3k miles with standard Quaker State (not even a “blend”) and cheap oil filters (170k out of the previous accord doing the same thing). I never had a single problem with the 98 civic engine in 9 years, and it still ran great when I traded it in. I WILL concede that changing oil every 3k miles might be a bit aggressive these days, so now I'm changing every 5k on my 07 R18. My stupid-ass maintenance minder never gets below 30% when I bring it in. I can tell the service guys REALLY want to tell me to wait, but they don't. And I'm not into rotating my tires every 10k either. I want to squeeze every last millimeter of tread out of them, so I rotate every 6k. I already have 12k on the car in only 6 months. William 03 Pilot + 07 Civic