There are pros and cons with old vs new construction. I'll take modern electric wiring.
My house is 20 years old. The plumbing is weak. Maybe today's plumbing with PEX and whatnot is better.
problem with Honda dealership oil change.
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My house is 20 years old. The plumbing is weak. Maybe today's plumbing with PEX and whatnot is better.
Hopefully it didn't leak....
Indeed, it does.
If I take anything to the dealer for an oil change, I'll check the oil level before driving off the lot. Of course that wont detect a leak.
I’m actually surprised that so many BITOGers go to dealerships for oil changes given the level of OCD being displayed on this forum.
PEX fitting let go in a bathroom upstairs in our 2015 built house. Caused about 8K in damage. Not bad in the grand scheme of things.
No idea what happened exactly. Plumber told us he rarely sees a properly installed one fail, but...here we are. That one lasted 8 years or so, then failed. He did me a solid and went around and looked at our other fittings and said everything looked fine, so ?
My inlaws remodeled their house in 2001 to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars and this past Easter a metal PEX fitting burst from corrosion. The plumber said all the PEX fittings should be redone which would require taking down a fair bit of drywall. The copper piping from 1978 is doing just fine.
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wow....
The level wasn't so low as to set off the low oil level warning I am assuming.
It's fine by your own measurement. Is it nice to be in the middle ? Sure, but not necessary. Of course there's also people who think it must be filled to the MAX line/mark too.
I quit checking it after I DIY oil changes. In the Civic, it spec's 3.9 quarts
but I put in 4. I check the level in the bottle, double-check, and even triple-check, then dump it in. In my G35, I dump a 5 quart bottle in. I do check the drain plugs and filters for leaks and if none, it's good.
It is also for inventory control. Bulk fluids are the largest source of shrink in dealer parts departments. Mostly because at most locations, the parts department doesn't have physical control of the bulk fluids. The beginning of every month when I dip our tanks we are short. I post correct amounts when it is delivered, and we bill out what is supposed to be going in the vehicle. But I can guarantee free oil changes are being done on the side.
It's like when a bull is chasing you and a friend thru a field, you only have to run faster than your friend.
Exactly!
Old growth forest vs trees that are grown as a crop.
You've also got techs putting in 5W-30 when it's supposed to be 5W-20 and the customer screams bloody murder, threatens to sue them, and demands that they dump it out and "fix it".
Why do you think "bulk oil" is some no-name oil, with no API rating, and non-compliant ? The bulk oil could be from Valvoline, Castrol, Mobil, and so on. The price per quart of bulk oil over 250-gallon totes is probably huge.
Does your dealership use non-branded, non-API rated bulk oil ?
Well…here we have guys putting in 0W-40 when it calls for 0W-20, and their thread gets scads of “likes”.You've also got techs putting in 5W-30 when it's supposed to be 5W-20 and the customer screams bloody murder, threatens to sue them, and demands that they dump it out and "fix it".
Honda probably leaving room on the dipstick for the fuel dilution lol
While that is true, it depends on how automated things are. Even when I was back in the dealer -there were two barrels of different spec's/ viscosities of whatever GM was using around that time - and sometimes the wrong one went in. And sometimes the tech forgot to adjust the volume setting, and it got whatever the last guy set it at. And 100% of the time they didn't much care.
