On fathers day I was driving to a cookout and my onboard computer screen came up with a low oil warning. "Pull over check it and if it was low have the car towed!" First time ever have I seen this. A little background, this car has been babied since new, has 124000 miles on it. I did check the oil, not touching the stick, borrowed a car and got 2 quarts of oil, poured them in slow, one at a time checking along the way. Still didn't touch the stick. Had it towed to my mechanic. Next day he tells me it was still down over a quart. 3 + quarts down on a capacity of 4.5 and just get the warning!!!! That was in a little over 4000 miles since the last oil change.
After some research I found this is a common problem with the older 3.7. Acura basically told me they are going to do nothing. My theory, Honda / Acura to limit their exposure to this issue involving who knows how many cars updated the onboard computer software so it would not warn the driver until it was dangerously low. They were hedging their bets that most people would get their oil changed every 3 - 5k miles and never know they had an issue???
I own the technology version and it tells you everything so I find it very hard to believe it would not warn you when you were 1 - or even 1.5 quarts down?
Anybody have any feedback on this theory?
After some research I found this is a common problem with the older 3.7. Acura basically told me they are going to do nothing. My theory, Honda / Acura to limit their exposure to this issue involving who knows how many cars updated the onboard computer software so it would not warn the driver until it was dangerously low. They were hedging their bets that most people would get their oil changed every 3 - 5k miles and never know they had an issue???
I own the technology version and it tells you everything so I find it very hard to believe it would not warn you when you were 1 - or even 1.5 quarts down?
Anybody have any feedback on this theory?