Originally Posted By: AcuraTech
Originally Posted By: Jim 5
My wife's pretty good about this. I told her if she doesn't want to check the oil, then she needs to pay a little extra for gas and have the pump jockey check it.
I also told her that if anything happens to her engine because it runs low on oil, we'll need to cancel the winter vacation to pay for it.
Haven't missed one yet.
Awesome. That's a great way to translate something they could give a s*** about (checking oil) into something they absolutely give a s*** about (vacation). Might have to try a derivative of that on the GF.
Then again, it helps when you have a newer car that doesn't burn oil. She tells me that she does check it from time to time, though. More power to her, more than most people are capable of.
It works like a charm. She has also had vehicles that didn't burn oil, but our new Ody seemed to be burning a lot in the first 2000 miles. Seems to have stopped now thankfully. Her 3.2TL never burned a drop from 0 miles on.
I relate every expense risk to things she wants to buy like vacations, massages or shoes. She always goes in to get any windshield rock chip fixed right away before it cracks the whole windshield. This way we dont have to end up buying a new windshield at the cost of 1 or 2 spa days, or a couple or 3 pairs of nice shoes.
I get real buy-in of preventative maintenance this way. Just have to talk their language!
