The Down Side of Regular Oil Changes....

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I have performed regular oil changes using dino every 4k miles. Anyway at 9 years and 210k I am sick of the uncomfortable seat (worn out) and car overall (Honda Civic) and lack of utility (2 door coupe). The car needs nothing but front brakes soon, fiance won't let me dump it for a new car until it dies (expensive repair). The car has never required an engine repair. The new oil from now on is SuperTech.

Just an opposing story to the preserving of a car.
 
There are lots of ways to kill an engine if this is what you truly want to have happen!
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Why not pick up a seat from a late model wreck. You'd be suprised what a new front seat will do.

My Crown Vic police cruiser seats where the most uncomfortable seats I ever sat in when I bought the car. They had way too much *** time (wide *** too).

I scored a set of brand new leather Crown Vic sport LX seats in graphite for $300 complete (shipped to me). I got all the wiring and switches from the bone yard (another $50 total) and now I have dual eight way power seats with power lumber.

Alternatively you could use Supertech oil with 1 oz. of mason sand every 2K. I'd bet you would be buying a new car in no time
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Cheaper to drive it in for a trade than to have it towed.

It's also worth more if you sell it running than to have the junk yard pick it up.

Also think about the good work you would be doing if you sold it cheap!! Some poor person could use it to get to work for another 100K and it might turn their life around and keep them out of the poor house.
 
I'd go with a 10,000 mile oci with ACCEL 30 weight non-detergent oil commonly found at Wal-mart. I for one would be interested to see a used oil analysis on that. And if you are lucky, you won't even hit 10,000 miles...
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I think she would go for donating it to a poor family or some refugees. I thought about selling it but who would buy a vehicle with such excessive mileage but well maintained?? I would never purposefully destroy a car.

The OCI is going up to 6k or 7k and SuperTech $11.99 oil change special is the new diet.
 
Sounds like fiancee has a good brain in her head.

I don't recommend pouring money into a beater, but sounds like some almost free driving while you save up for the future.

I would be great just to see how much you can get out of it. 300K, 400K.
 
You're too young to fancy the challenge of "getting by" as cheaply as you can. No false economies ..just getting every dime you can out of something. This will come soon enough as children enter your life (and they will enter your life sooner or later ..the average when I got married was two years). Now with a daughter in college and one due to start just as she gets out ...I'm thrilled that my 160+ Caravan and her 143+ Taurus are running strong. We have newer Jeeps ..but without my reliable beaters ..I'd be spending a small fortune to provide transportation for so many.

I love good running beaters.

Consider it a rolling monument to your common sense and your wisdom to resist the need to spend money needlessly. I wish my son would figure this out. Each material acquisition is followed by another to achieve ...what
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..I dunno
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Do you miss the tyranny of monthly payments?
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Think of a 100-300 dollar used "new seat" as less than one monthly car payment on a new Civic.

Your car is a baby!

I am looking to run my 2003 VW Jetta TDI a min of 550k and with a little luck 1,000,000 miles.

[ May 08, 2004, 02:23 PM: Message edited by: ruking77 ]
 
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Originally posted by andyfish:
I thought about selling it but who would buy a vehicle with such excessive mileage but well maintained??

I would and know some poeple who would. Well maintained beaters are the way to go.
 
Keep it. Replace the seat, install one of those Xmas tree smelly things, give it a cut and polish and good wax, and your outlook towards the car will change - and you will save a lot of money.

Dave

[ May 08, 2004, 02:56 PM: Message edited by: DavoNF ]
 
I had a Mexican fellow seriously want to buy my 189K miles Nissan truck, he wanted to take it down to Mexico for his family and leave it there with them. Said that due to the high mileage there was no tax requirement or something like that to take the vehicle and leave it down there.
Would have been some high tax if vehicle was newer..I told him I still drive it too much to think of getting rid of it.
If you just want another vehicle rather than need one, it would be a good deed to let someone less fortunate than you have the vehicle for a good cheap price and then buy whatever you really want...better for everyone involved
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Originally posted by ssmokn:
Alternatively you could use Supertech oil with 1 oz. of mason sand every 2K. I'd bet you would be buying a new car in no time
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Perhaps, but the fiance' knows about Auto-Rx, then this idea may not fly. LOL
 
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Originally posted by andyfish:


fiance won't let me dump it for a new car until it dies (expensive repair).


If she is incharge before you are married, man you are in deep, deep crap. Tell her you are going to trade it for the new car you want or you will start telling her how often she can buy a new dress, tampax's, makeup, etc.
 
Pitbull,

You've never been informed that women run the world. They rule their men. Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Delilah ...

Women rule their men in one of two ways ..or a blend. They either rule them via seduction or antagonism.

Men are aggressive ..women are passive-agressive.

Don't have a happy woman? You're not a happy man. Simple.
 
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Originally posted by Gary Allan:
Pitbull,

You've never been informed that women run the world. They rule their men. Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Delilah ...

Women rule their men in one of two ways ..or a blend. They either rule them via seduction or antagonism.

Men are aggressive ..women are passive-agressive.

Don't have a happy woman? You're not a happy man. Simple.


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convince her that the car is not as safe as newer cars, and with all these people driving SUVs, that you want a car with side airbags for extra safety. women are big on safety.

btw, is the civic manual or auto?
 
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Originally posted by Gary Allan:
Pitbull,

You've never been informed that women run the world. They rule their men. Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Delilah ...

Women rule their men in one of two ways ..or a blend. They either rule them via seduction or antagonism.


I recieved this in e-mail the other day, titled the Battle of the Sexes

1. NAMES
If Laurie, Linda, Elizabeth and Barbara go out for lunch, they will call each other Laurie, Linda, Elizabeth and Barbara.
If Mark, Chris, Eric and Tom go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla, Peanut-Head and Scrappy.

2. EATING OUT
When the bill arrives, Mark, Chris, Eric and Tom will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.
When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

3. MONEY
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale.

4. BATHROOMS
A man has five items in his bathroom: a toothbrush, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from the Marriott.
The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337.
A man would not be able to identify most of these items.

5. ARGUMENTS
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

6. CATS
Women love cats.
Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.

7. FUTURE
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

8. SUCCESS
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

9. MARRIAGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change and she does.



10. DRESSING UP
A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.
A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.

11. NATURAL
Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.

12. OFFSPRING
A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favourite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.
A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

13. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Any married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing.
 
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fiance won't let me dump it for a new car until it dies (expensive repair)

I have always shaken my head at people in relationships who "allow" or "don't allow" each other to do things.

Dominating and manipulating one another is not the basis for a good marriage. You are lucky that this is your fiance and not your wife as the impact of calling it off now is much less than later.

50%-60% of marriages end in divorce, and arguments over how to spend money are consistently reported to be in the top 3 problem areas. If you need or want a newer better vehicle and can responsibly afford it, then get one. Don't kill the poor car just because you don't know how to look after the basics of life.

John
 
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