Just another old guy rant
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I've had 2 camaros now last me a long time already, one hit 19 years and 400k miles before I retired it and the other just hit 21 years 240K miles on it last week. My 2nd C6 is now 13 years old and still in excellent condition and on its 3rd set of tires. If you maintain it well, it will last you. I like doing all the maintenance myself, but as I get older noticing that my propensity to lie on my back wrenching and spilling toxic chemicals on me is waning...
I have a hobby car to mess with when I have some free time to spare. But I will farm out the large tasks. That's resource management.
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After re-reading my original post, I can understand how it sounded like I was saying that the list was the things I do when I wash the car.... what I meant was, that's how often I do maintenance checks, on all my vehicles, regardless of type...car truck or motorcycle. The list was just to give people an idea of what I think should be regularly looked at. I still check my oil weekly... I wonder how many people do that.
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I do not check my oil weekly. Once I'm confident that a vehicle is not an oil burner, as long as I don't see spots where I park it I check it less than once a month or before any long trip. Can't remember the last time I had to add a quart of oil between changes, it's been more than a decade, maybe two.
Now I do check tire pressure nearly every time I drive. It's easy with TPMS and it changes significantly with the weather. With cooler weather upon us I added 2 psi to all the Vette's tires.
Now I do check tire pressure nearly every time I drive. It's easy with TPMS and it changes significantly with the weather. With cooler weather upon us I added 2 psi to all the Vette's tires.
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I do not check my oil weekly. Once I'm confident that a vehicle is not an oil burner, as long as I don't see spots where I park it I check it less than once a month or before any long trip. Can't remember the last time I had to add a quart of oil between changes, it's been more than a decade, maybe two.
Now I do check tire pressure nearly every time I drive. It's easy with TPMS and it changes significantly with the weather. With cooler weather upon us I added 2 psi to all the Vette's tires.
Now I do check tire pressure nearly every time I drive. It's easy with TPMS and it changes significantly with the weather. With cooler weather upon us I added 2 psi to all the Vette's tires.
Good for you on the tire pressures. Very important, and you never know when you may pick up a nail or something.
Like you, I very seldom if ever have to add oil between changes. But it gives me a chance to see other things while I'm in there. For example, last weekend I noticed a very fine mist of moisture on the high pressure power steering hose on my pickup. Not enough to drip on the floor, but it's starting... Now I know I need to change out that hose, or at least find the source of the moisture. Had I not had my head under the hood, I may have been driving along and had the hose blow, oil everywhere, and a sudden lack of steering assistance or worst case a loss of control with oil under the tires. Not good on the freeway towing a trailer.
So, I will keep getting my head under the hood of every vehicle I own on a weekly basis.
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Guess getting under the hood on a weekly basis certainly isn't gonna hurt anything. But theres a lot of things that can and will happen without warning that even a weekly check under the hood won't catch. Too many things to mention here. I'll take a peek at things under hood when i check the earl which is about every 5-K if i'm driving a known non burner, but other than that my hood stays closed cept for cleaning unless of course I see something on the ground or hear some strange noises.
