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I see this a lot around here...just follow your owner’s manual. When discussing oil type and OCI.
Someone wrote this bellow, when discussing why owners manuals and scheduled maintenance may be different in the US compared to Canada or other countries...
First of all, maintenance schedules are set by the individual marketing territories, and not by engineers at the factory (despite what many think). The marketing departments in each territory also pay for and therefore determine the warranty coverage details.
Reason why this is the case include:
Someone wrote this bellow, when discussing why owners manuals and scheduled maintenance may be different in the US compared to Canada or other countries...
First of all, maintenance schedules are set by the individual marketing territories, and not by engineers at the factory (despite what many think). The marketing departments in each territory also pay for and therefore determine the warranty coverage details.
Reason why this is the case include:
- Each Marketing territory is responsible for their own warranty expense.
- Warranties are regulated by governments to some degree.
- Competition differs in each market with regard to maintenance schedules and warranty.
- Different climates in each territory.