***** Motors chat - round 12 *****

Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »

Supposed to be going to Belfast on Saturday to look at a few cars in Charles Hurst stock. Just googled them there and there are a lot of 1 star Google reviews. What's the story with them?

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Got new front PS4's fitted this evening, Kumhos wore very well but I can see my tracking is out a bit from their wear. Good wear overall from them though and would recommend them to anyone but having the fresh PS4's on now just feels that bit nicer :pac: Rears are already due in the next 1/2k miles too

Taxed it tonight too, have insurance to sort for mid September and must get the new VANOS unit fitted somewhere in between along with rear tyres, going to be an expensive month or two

CIP4 wrote: »

Thanks for the info I am in the IT building for the whole day don’t have a clue where that is. It is 9-6pm job but I assume campus will stay open parking wise before and after these times.

Alanstrainor wrote: »

That every 3000 miles figure is one that I see Americans posting about constantly. Probably an idea that made sense in the 60's, with much worse mineral oil as opposed to synthetic oils we use today. I'd go once a year too tbh, not that changing your oil too often would do harm. It's just a waste of time.

Alanstrainor wrote: »

They mustn't sell very many fleet vehicles! Maybe the Canadians would see it different if they were somewhere with exceptionally harsh/cold winters. Although I don't really know if that would affect the oil...

challengemaster wrote: »

Because nobody bothered / not enough consumers affected to result in any lawsuit, not because there isn't the scope within the law to do it. How many 335i's sold in Ireland vs USA? :P

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

I change mine every 6k miles, doing about 10-12k miles a year. For the sake of €50 and a half an hour it's no harm to do.

vintagevrs wrote: »

3k miles seems very low for a modern Honda, but as FN says it'll do it no harm. What engine is it? 10k km sounds fine to me as per the book. Driving conditions are not severe here, and I presume your driving style isn't either.

colm_mcm wrote: »

Waste of effort doing it that frequently, just use fully synth 5w30/40 once a year.

fancy pigeon wrote: »

The Z gets it's oil changed every year at least, naturally I don't drive it a lot as I want to be able to afford to run my other cars, along with other non car related stuff.

I've probably driven it about 4k kms this year (well, since December when the box got whacked into it) and I'm not driving it as much until I sort out the gearbox seals.

It'll get it's oil changed with the usual 10w40 around Christmas


On the flip side, the Avensis gets it's oil changed every 15k, 5w30 fully synth. 11 months driving it (that long already?!) put up 43k kms, sitting near 363k kms. Still runs like a clock. It's driven all over a lot of Leinster (and south Ulster) on different roads, different loads on the engine, different speeds and never breaks into a sweat. My poor old rusty C220 used to get it's oil changed every 10k miles, 5w40 full synth. It too never broke into a sweat or had issues with the engine (I had a home brew hybrid GT22V installed), I stopped using it after getting fed up changing injectors, which was due to my own stupidity!

Summary: 10k miles is grand for an oil change interval in your circumstance

bazz26 wrote: »

It's really up to you but I think every 5k km is just overkill. Your mileage suggests that once a year would be sufficient imo. Honda petrol engines are very reliable and I cannot see an annual oil change at your mileage causing any issues even if the car has 100,000 miles on the clock.

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

I´ve done 30k kms in the last 16months in the Civic, mostly motorway, , changed the oil last week after 16k kms (longest I have ever waited in a car) and the oil looked pretty fresh still.

It is a nice feeling when its done though.

Alanstrainor wrote: »

That every 3000 miles figure is one that I see Americans posting about constantly. Probably an idea that made sense in the 60's, with much worse mineral oil as opposed to synthetic oils we use today. I'd go once a year too tbh, not that changing your oil too often would do harm. It's just a waste of time.