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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 07:09 PM
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on the oil when I changed it today. Man, I gotta drive the vert more this year!
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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 07:13 PM
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on the oil when I changed it today. Man, I gotta drive the vert more this year!
Thats a waste of oil Drive it dude
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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 07:15 PM
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Thats a waste of oil Drive it dude
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Old Feb 2, 2006 | 12:16 AM
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Get your C5 azz in gear and enjoy. Got any pics?
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Old Feb 2, 2006 | 04:37 AM
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crap, i hear ya dude. guess with moving and just doing lots of other crap my vette must have sat alot this past year. guess the little neon sees more road than it does. i change my oil by the DIC reccomendation and when i got my car inspected today i realized the last time i got my car inspected (last january) is also when i got my last oil change....DIC hasnt told me to yet...oops. thats on the list to do real soon. hahaha
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Old Feb 2, 2006 | 06:38 AM
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on the oil when I changed it today. Man, I gotta drive the vert more this year!

It's a car, guess what it's engineered to do!
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Old Feb 2, 2006 | 11:33 AM
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on the oil when I changed it today. Man, I gotta drive the vert more this year!
455 on mine one year later. do i win??
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455 on mine one year later. do i win??
That's just sad. What's the point in having a car like this and not enjoying it by driving it.
Oh well, to each his own. Someone will get a nice car someday and drive the he$$ out of it, as designed.
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Old Feb 2, 2006 | 12:31 PM
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15,000 in 6 months, do i win?
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my last oil changed i went 10124 miles .. ?

i think you need to drive more.
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Old Feb 2, 2006 | 12:32 PM
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To me, clean oil is cheap insurance, I change mine every 2,500 miles.
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It's a car, guess what it's engineered to do!

You're missing out on a lot of fun.
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Old Feb 2, 2006 | 01:04 PM
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That's just sad. What's the point in having a car like this and not enjoying it by driving it.
Oh well, to each his own. Someone will get a nice car someday and drive the he$$ out of it, as designed.
please, allow me to clarify..... sick and aging dad that i was taking care of and finally lost ... then three days after laying him to rest hosiptalized TWICE for kidney problems, etc., etc.. I"M DRIVING NOW!!!!! thats why i bought it!!!!
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Old Feb 2, 2006 | 01:28 PM
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Autoworker, I hear ya ! Here in WI we get to drive the car about 2 months a year I put 500 miles on my oil in 2005..I'll change mine in the spring. Too each their own I say
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Old Feb 2, 2006 | 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by sebringsilver97coupe
crap, i hear ya dude. guess with moving and just doing lots of other crap my vette must have sat alot this past year. guess the little neon sees more road than it does. i change my oil by the DIC reccomendation and when i got my car inspected today i realized the last time i got my car inspected (last january) is also when i got my last oil change....DIC hasnt told me to yet...oops. thats on the list to do real soon. hahaha

Yes, you should change at least once a year no matter how few of miles you have driven or what the dic says.
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Old Feb 2, 2006 | 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Likesvettes
That's just sad. What's the point in having a car like this and not enjoying it by driving it.
Oh well, to each his own. Someone will get a nice car someday and drive the he$$ out of it, as designed.
Sometimes just having the car makes people happy. Maybe he is like me, can afford the car but just doesn't fit into his lifestyle right now. I don't drive mine often enough. Busy, busy busy. I don't care about the next guy, cause nobody's gonna get it. People have different situations and different things that make them happy. Guess mine can sit until my daughter can inherit it when I'm gone. Anyway, bC of different situations and other things that come up that are more important than driving a Corvette, I am sure there is alot of wasted oil around here. My friend leases his Vette, when I change my unused oil, I told him he can have it.
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Old Feb 2, 2006 | 06:44 PM
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I put just a tad over 1,000 miles on mine last year.
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Old Feb 2, 2006 | 07:00 PM
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Worked way to much overtime last year. Only put 1300 on the Vette. 300 miles on Bloomington Gold weekend and a trip to Road America for the ALMS race was about it for me. Working weekends and holidays sucks!
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Never been to the museum.....maybe this year.
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