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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I'll always use the "me" computer to decide when to change
Computer controlled is only as good as the software, hardware and maintenance/materials/etc
How does it know what kind of oil (which multi weight, which pure synthetic,
Blend, etc), what filter, how I drive, what I haul/tow, where I drive, etc
Averages based on the OEM's model of the "average" driver, etc
Does it understand a change in oil PSI?....fluctuation inPSI?, etc
Nope, but I do
Unimaginable to me how anyone can "forget" to change their oil, but read
About that all the time...or are they just lazy....or are they ignorant of
How important it is ???
Worse if they ignore the need
But....know most all are fans of computer controlled automotive controls...
Noodle the latest plane crash in Europe...one possibility is that the computer
"Thought" it was in a stall and it drops its nose to regain control...there
Is TSB on how2 get out of that situation...not a for sure, but a theory being
Tossed around
Oh well...I'd be VERY embarrassed if any of those sludges ICEs were mine...
Computer controlled is only as good as the software, hardware and maintenance/materials/etc
How does it know what kind of oil (which multi weight, which pure synthetic,
Blend, etc), what filter, how I drive, what I haul/tow, where I drive, etc
Averages based on the OEM's model of the "average" driver, etc
Does it understand a change in oil PSI?....fluctuation inPSI?, etc
Nope, but I do
Unimaginable to me how anyone can "forget" to change their oil, but read
About that all the time...or are they just lazy....or are they ignorant of
How important it is ???
Worse if they ignore the need
But....know most all are fans of computer controlled automotive controls...
Noodle the latest plane crash in Europe...one possibility is that the computer
"Thought" it was in a stall and it drops its nose to regain control...there
Is TSB on how2 get out of that situation...not a for sure, but a theory being
Tossed around
Oh well...I'd be VERY embarrassed if any of those sludges ICEs were mine...
