What Happens When You Don't Change the Oil
Dear Lord. According to the article this was the engine of an Audi TT that had not had its oil changed for 84,000 miles. There's not much detail beyond that, but the article has a higher resolut...
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Dog Folks wrote:
Not always stupid.
The company I worked for had fairly new vehicles in the fleet. Come to find out they ran the cars with absolutely NO MAINTENANCE at all, including no oil changes.
At three years they replaced the vehicle with a new one.
As I had just the opposite theory (Buy new, Maintain them, and keep them a long time,) I really wonder how cost effective that theory was.
From a strictly money / budget point of view, regular maintenance on vehicles that you know you are going to replace soon and/or on a regular basis is a waste of money.
If vehicles are going to be kept for as long as possible, regular maintenance will save money.
This is why I never will buy used "fleet" vehicles, unless I can talk to the mechanic who actually worked on them - if they were ever worked on!
