Originally Posted by
Ares
1. No, I don't PLAN on having children; I'm too selfish.
2. It's not like I'm dumping the oil down the drain. If I do my own oil changes, I go recycle the oil, which hopefully DOES get recycled.
3. Just thinking about it, the Rio's owner's manual also called for 7k or 5k intervals. However, the dealer RECOMMENDED 3k intervals because of the "extreme" Texas conditions.
4. The country(ies) that this vehicle came from didn't have 75mph freeway speeds. Also, these cars were not built in a for countries where other cars accelerate from 0-60mph in under 3 seconds. I constantly have to be in half-throttle (or more) and shift at 3-4k rpms to make sure I have enough power and accelerate before all the trucks and corvettes run over me.
If you're a real hippie, go walk or ride a bike.
I am paying 15k for this car, and I'll spend the extra 15-20$ to make it last.
I seem to offend you, my apologies, it's never been my intention. I caught in the discussion and work load was high at that time.
Yeah I've been to US, there's no way I would walk or take bike there, dangerous to your life. I've done my share of biking here in Europe since I work 65 km away (130 km a day) from where I lived. I used to take public transport when I still worked in Amsterdam but my new work will take me double the travel time (3 hours on public transport instead of 1,5 hours by car). Am not hippie and not hypocrite, just think that this world's going worse (not having kids either here ;-) ) so let's ease the pain by not making it worse much sooner. It's been proven that oil nowadays are made for heavy duty and under heavy load it still perform as good as it was brand new after 20.000 km, also it's money saving, why saving money on gas (some ppl goes to extreme (hyper miler)) and then waste your saved money on changing oil every 3.000 miles? it was like 3x changed oil when I changed my oil just once.
Again sorry if I was rude, it was not my intention.
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