[Jammer]

Originally Posted by mcrews

Jammer,
maybe you should drop your cell phone in the next garbage can you see too?
Not sure what the rant about ONSTAR has to do with oil changes......
And sorry that the implication was that INFINITI had do a test, Infiniti did not. I had stated that ON THE INFINITI forum (which is actually NICO and not associated with Nissan/Infiniti) here is the post New Engine Coming...Proper break-in? Catch can?: M-Series Forum / Fuga Forum: Nissan Forums / Infiniti Forums - NICOclub

as ChrstphrR said "Why agonize so much over an oil change?"
so few of us get a new car. I was just trying to give some helpful advise.....

here is a post from a VW site with the oil analysis form a new car at 5k miles
http://pics.tdiclub.com/data/4323/Us..._2009_VW_s.pdf
note the high levels

here is an oil analysis on a new 09 integra. he has done 3 oil changes in 11,000 miles. Note the wear numbers at the first oil chang3
SynPower 5W30: 3,640 Miles - 09 Acura RDX Turbo - Bob Is The Oil Guy

Someday we might awake to the news that a company with so much power *might* be selling tracking information to an insurance company- Does not anyone else wonder why a company such as On Stars asks for your car insurance policy #? - See I was trying to get people to see the obvious here, that sort of information, when all combined, can be abused. Don't be surprised when you find an MP3 site of private in car conversations too. Even today we have plenty of video from cams stuck in bathrooms, and lots of video from security cams which is mainly posted as some kind of porn- however I do not understand the interest in such stuff. Gosh we even have tons of sites dedicated to CRANK PHONE CALLS. Nobody can tell me there is not a market for recordings made from the On Star microphone without the driver's knowledge. It might be hard to prove who violated the law too. My tie-in was with a company trying to make after sale sells. Perhaps by using a computer that advises a customer to wait 20,000 miles before the 1st oil change it will damage the engine which may not appear until the warranty has expired. I can not see much of another motive to tell customers to wait soooo long for an oil change, can anyone else provide another motivating factor for waiting so much longer than before?

So, the On Star stuff was said for a few reasons, such as a rant that was suppose to be funny by pointing out the obvious conflict of interests some companies have. If you rather make fun of ME for posting it, then I wish you would expand your mind a little bit and ask yourself how much is your privacy worth, ' would not car insurance companies love to have the GPS tracking on cars so they can always monitor our speed etc??Yes it was off topic, but for this site that is nothing new.

My question about the oil changing still remains, as nobody here really shared their thoughts on the matter because most in this thread were too busy telling me, more or less: "Who Cares?" - Like nobody cares about maintaining a car here?? I was curious about the COMPUTER claims vers regular oil changes- Does anybody know if there is anything to the computer being even close to right when it says something like Oil = 55% (Good I guess)- Nobody, not one person bothered to address my real question. Even the person that emailed me is mocking me. Whats up are the Holidays getting to people or what? Shesh.

Thank you to the member that/for mentioned changing the oil filter, which was done.

Me