While my car seems to know just how long it is until the oil needs to be changed, it still doesn't tell the dealership to stop calling as they decide that "3 months is the standard", despite the fact they know everything else about my car, including the fact that my car has an oil change monitor and I don't drive from out-of-town for work like so many people do these days.
I took the car in recently to get said oilchange done, but as it was getting close to its four-year anniversary, I looked into the things that I neglected to do while the car was out-and-about. As such, I had a fairly nasty bill at the end of it all, and sometimes it makes me somewhat regret buying a new car when I heard that a co-worker bought their first car for less than my total bill that day, and hasn't had to put nearly as much money into keeping it running.
However, on the flip side, I took the car in just under the 60,000km warranty, so at least some of the stuff that needed to be done was covered.
In an actually-related-to-your-post comment, I love the cruise control when I'm taking long trips. it lefts me stretch my legs a little bit, since holding them in that one particular position for an hour is definitely strenuous. But yes, that sudden lurch is a little disconcerting.
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Date: 2011-09-05 06:23 pm (UTC)I took the car in recently to get said oilchange done, but as it was getting close to its four-year anniversary, I looked into the things that I neglected to do while the car was out-and-about. As such, I had a fairly nasty bill at the end of it all, and sometimes it makes me somewhat regret buying a new car when I heard that a co-worker bought their first car for less than my total bill that day, and hasn't had to put nearly as much money into keeping it running.
However, on the flip side, I took the car in just under the 60,000km warranty, so at least some of the stuff that needed to be done was covered.
In an actually-related-to-your-post comment, I love the cruise control when I'm taking long trips. it lefts me stretch my legs a little bit, since holding them in that one particular position for an hour is definitely strenuous. But yes, that sudden lurch is a little disconcerting.