wrong. as you break through, shavings get pushed in. grease on top of that pushes them further, as well as any grit that's in the gun.
so you say. but the fact is, unless the boots are damaged, these things typically last 300k+, with no intervention.
they clearly don't know what they're doing.
contamination is a fact. deal with it. contamination causes early failure. if yours haven't yet, it's good engineering, and certainly not /because/ of this stupidity.
how do you /know/???? [rhetorical] you don't do analysis!
bottom line, color has nothing to do with it - the oil's filtered. any particle, and it's only soot that makes it black, that can get through the filter is too small to make any difference to lubrication. check how thick the hydrodynamic oil films are, then look at the filter's particle size pass-through.
We're talking about people who don't do frequent enough oil changes. Looks like you're in that club. These were the people that came into the Service Dep't with sludged engines. Why? They didn't follow the Manufacturer's recommendation. The manual for a Camry and a Sienna said 7,500. They didn't so it and got sludged engines. People who did
Spend a little money and change your friggin' oil!
Also, tell me where you are so I know not to buy a car from you.
er, it's analysis that /determines/ the manufacturer's recommendation. once the analysis is done, they do the stats on covering the maximum reasonable user base, then set a change interval. a few may need to change it sooner. but the majority can last longer. if you do the analysis, you'll know just /how much/ longer.
The Honda engineers don't suggest a filter change every oil change.
So why do you all of a sudden, given your blind following of their "guidelines"?
Or you're crazy as hell.
You have lost your damn mind because I never said that at all.
Awesome....good luck with that.
And now I wonder why you get so pissy with everyone when they question the oil change intervals recommended ( or actually not recommended by since its buried in the "maintenance Minder" ).
If you don't even follow the Honda guidelines, then you should shut your damn piehole the next time you feel the need to foam at the ass when someone (like me!) does it differently.
Read that again, rinse, and repeat over and over until you get it, son.
This should be interesting coming from you....carry on...
$2.50 in savings.
Wow...maybe I'll get a 2L Pepsi and a sandwich with all that money.
No...reality says that your scenario saves a whopping $5.00 over the course of 48K miles.
And doing so on a vehicle that can cost over $30,000 dollars, doing dino oil changes every 12k miles.
No, thats not exactly true...oil analysis is by no means a complete engine diagnostic tool.
Gil comes limping into the parking lot in a 'vintage' Mustang, engine running hard but barely moving. Wanted to know what was wrong with her car.
After checking the battery, alternator, etc, we pulled the dipstick. Oil was well above the 'full' mark, and with a bright light we could see oil in the dipstick tube.
"When did you last change your oil?" "I don't remember, but I just had a quart put in yesterday."
Turns out, whenever she added gas to the tank, she also had them throw in a quart of oil. Don't know where she was going for gas, but if they weren't looking at the dipstick, I'd get my gas elsewhere...
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