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Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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I have a 2005 Buick rendezvous with 55k. Since it was new, I took it to the dealer to have it serviced. Well it got to be a hassle to get it in for an oil change, so I changed it for the first time. No big deal. I've always changed my oils in the past when I had old cars. Well today while at Indy, the change oil light came on. I was worried, thought there may be something wrong with engine oil pressure. Called my son who lives in Plainfield, told him what happened. He got on the internet and says, "Dad, turn the key on, push on the brake peddle 3 times and it will resit the computer. Never had to do that, because I never changed the oil. All was fine. When I saw change engine oil, I thought I had a serious problem. Guess it pays to read carefully and have a computer savvy son to tell dad what's wrong.
 
as i understand it has nothing to do with the condition of the oil--just time,distance and perhaps total revolutions
 
Blackhole,
thanks for your kind words of encouragement. Hope this helps other idiots that have never had to reset their computer.
 
It appears that way. I'm thinking it would have been 4k since my last oil change at dealer. Normally I would change it about every 3K, because after that my oil on all GMs turns black and starts using oil.
 
My 2014 company Chevy van has GPS on it that monitors a lot of stuff like location and speed. When "change oil soon" pops up on the speedometer, I get an email from corporate fleet telling me all about what I'm seeing, and telling me to get it in for an oil change. That's not all that GPS will do. When I got the van, it would do 80 MPH, 90 MPH, who knows maybe more. I know, I looked down a couple of times, 85 MPH on the interstate. Then out of nowhere before I had it in for its first maintenance, started topping out at 75 MPH. After a few weeks of 80, 85 I'm going down the interstate and the engine bogs down, I look down, 75 MPH. Then I get an email from corporate fleet telling me that per company policy, 70 MPH is the maximum, and on these following dates (was a list) I was doing 75, 71, 73, 75 and so on, and if I do above 70 MPH anymore, its going to be sent to my third level director, and if he gets such an email...I'm in trouble.

Mark
 
(quoted from post at 17:36:11 06/20/15) George, posting this officially makes you an idiot. Next time, reset the oil life when you change it.
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Backhole. That was rather harsh. A gentle reminder to read the operator's manual is all that was required.
 
Not to defend my old friend, however I should set the record straight. George is super careful, a bit hard headed,Has a way with words to make his point, frugal Second to me) cautious ,studious ,and possibly many other contemptible things. BUT AN IDIOT HE IS NOT.
 
806man ,
Perhaps both will work. I started pushing on gas peddle and my boy said brake peddle. I know the brake works, I'll try gas peddle next time. All I can say is I learned something new today. May forget it by tomorrow.
 
The early change oil lights were all over the place to reset,one Buick had a hole on the passenger side kick panel that had to be probed with a tooth pick(or other pick),some had a hole in the dash some was playing with different buttons. I think the dealers got tired of resetting the lights and now they just make it easier .
 
I bought car new,Never opened manual. Dealers said 3k on oil changes . I bought it new and it was under a 5 year warranty. 10 years ago, the dealer would change my oil cheaper than I could buy oil and a filter. So to keep up on my warranty, I let them do all the work. Every other oil change I went next door and got a free rotation and balancing from tire barn.

I have 3 GM vehicles and I can tell you all of them have had oil changed at 3k. One time I forgot and a different car went 5k. It was a quart and a half low. At 4k all will have dark oil and down a half quart. 3k seem to work best for the cars and truck.
 
I work on a little bit of every thing,,, a Mini Cooper is the worst I give a reset my best try if it does not work they can take that little P.O.S. somewhere else... Tell the truth I like those Mini's but why does it take a rocket silentest to reset a little maintenance reminder :twisted:
 
I have so far spared myself the need to learn such high tech hijinks. I like old tractors and I like old trucks. And old military surplus tools of freedom.

And I have never met someone who can call another man an idiot who isn't a few points shy on the personality scale. 8)

The most brilliant businessman and machinist/fabricator that I have known in my half-century has the tact of a trapped wolverine though, so maybe there's something to be said for it.

I appreciate you posting this George... My wife has been nudging me in the ribs about it being time to get a newer tow vehicle, seeing as all these heavy old tractors keep following us home.
 
Well be glad yours seems to work. My wife's 2013 Impala will go way over the oil change interval before the change oil light comes on. When we bought the car it had factory warranty on the car that included the oil changes. They told us to just bring it in when the light comes on. She drives the car 98% of the time. I have driven it a total of 4-5 times in the year and half we have owned the car. The first time she drove the car over 7K before the light came on. She got the oil changed and never mentioned the mileage to me. The second time she asked me if it needed changed as she had over 9K on the last oil change. WHAT!!!!!! I took it in to the dealership and had them service it and check out the system that monitors the oil. They tell us all is OK. It still does not work correctly. So she just watches it and we have it serviced at 5K. She does very little short hop driving and the oil still looks good at 5k.
 
The idiot typing this had to call for assistance on how to reset the light when it lit up in the Toyota Sienna. There was nothing about it in the owners manual. We are supposed to faithfully take it to our Toyota dealer to have the oil changed so why should we need to look for it in the manual!!!
 
Ignore the comments! At least 2 of the responders to your comments have done the exact same thing. They think they are better than everyone else so its OK for them to call people idiots, but not anyone else!
 
I bought a Chevy truck in February. It had 11 miles on a dealer service, but they forgot to re-set the oil change monitor. Now it's constantly telling me that the oil needs changed. I called the shop foreman, and he looked it up in his computer and acknowledged that it was not due for service until 21,000 miles, which is a long time down the road. We get letters and e-mails every day about it needing service. I'm tired of someone looking over my shoulder. I'm glad I never pushed the OnStar button. I'm told that it's a nagger also.
 
I've got one more freebie for my wife's van,but then I'll be doing it myself because it really is a hassle to go to the dealer for service. The manual is about as thick as Monday's newspaper and had about as much pertinent information in it as well.

I'm sure I'll be asking here or looking it up with Google to figure it out....

Donovan from Wisconsin
 

Why would anyone change oil at 3k?

Unless your engine is totally worn out and your using recycled oil?

All manufacturers recommend 5,000 to 10,000 miles today. The majority have 7,500 miles for many years now, while recently most are moving to 10,000 miles. As long as you use a premium oil and not some cow poop oil, anything sooner and your wasting money and resources.

Premium oils have additives that fight wear, fight acids, and clean the engine. They have cold start and "dry" start additives. This lowered wear and keeping the piston rings clean means the engine last longer and does not burn any oil. Premium oils dont have to be fully synthetic but just a higher grade oil with a great additive package. Read your owners manual in most cases. Bump up to a simi synthetic and move to 10,000 mile oil changes and have even better engine life and up to a 2% to 5% increase in mpg on top of that.

Oils have improved dramatically from the 1960s and engine life is now 200,000 miles easily with 10,000 mile changes with a "premium oil".
 
(quoted from post at 10:58:31 06/21/15)
Why would anyone change oil at 3k?

Unless your engine is totally worn out and your using recycled oil?

All manufacturers recommend 5,000 to 10,000 miles today. The majority have 7,500 miles for many years now, while recently most are moving to 10,000 miles. As long as you use a premium oil and not some cow poop oil, anything sooner and your wasting money and resources.

Premium oils have additives that fight wear, fight acids, and clean the engine. They have cold start and "dry" start additives. This lowered wear and keeping the piston rings clean means the engine last longer and does not burn any oil. Premium oils dont have to be fully synthetic but just a higher grade oil with a great additive package. Read your owners manual in most cases. Bump up to a simi synthetic and move to 10,000 mile oil changes and have even better engine life and up to a 2% to 5% increase in mpg on top of that.

Oils have improved dramatically from the 1960s and engine life is now 200,000 miles easily with 10,000 mile changes with a "premium oil".
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All true the 3000 oil change interval are for those unaware that the world has changed. They seem unaware the fuel injected engines burning unleaded low sulphur gasoline do not pollute the crankcase oil.
 
Well that gave me the best laugh today. And yes, English is by far the best language to have a grasp of.
 
You can add to that no lead deposits and on low sulphur, reduction in sulphuric acid, just like is being realized in ultra low sulphur
diesel in tractors that sit for long periods and don't get the oil changed every once in awhile.
 
Yet for some reason the manual in my 2005 Jeep (Fuel injected and OD) says to change the oil every 3000 miles and apparently that wasn't enough as the rod bearing have all failed at 80,000 miles.
 
If you notice - the manual (11-3) tells you to change the oil at 3000 miles if you forget to reset the monitor. With all the problem GM has had with the 3.6 that that car has I would never run the mileage out to what the computer says. After the model gets a few year old and thousands of engines fail GM always shortens the interval on them anyway.
 
(quoted from post at 07:58:31 06/21/15)
Why would anyone change oil at 3k?

Unless your engine is totally worn out and your using recycled oil?

All manufacturers recommend 5,000 to 10,000 miles today. The majority have 7,500 miles for many years now, while recently most are moving to 10,000 miles. As long as you use a premium oil and not some cow poop oil, anything sooner and your wasting money and resources.

Premium oils have additives that fight wear, fight acids, and clean the engine. They have cold start and "dry" start additives. This lowered wear and keeping the piston rings clean means the engine last longer and does not burn any oil. Premium oils dont have to be fully synthetic but just a higher grade oil with a great additive package. Read your owners manual in most cases. Bump up to a simi synthetic and move to 10,000 mile oil changes and have even better engine life and up to a 2% to 5% increase in mpg on top of that.

Oils have improved dramatically from the 1960s and engine life is now 200,000 miles easily with 10,000 mile changes with a "premium oil".
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Every new car owners manual I've looked at recently gives an oil change interval of from 5000 to 10000 miles unless vehicle is driven in extreme conditions.Extreme conditions consist of :towing or hauling heavy loads,cold weather driving and not allowing full warmup of the engine,short trips and no full warmups,operating in dusty conditions,stop and go driving.That pretty much puts us right back to 3000 to 4000 mile oil changes.
 
Agreed. If you have a seeping head gasket and the oil is turning to sludge in the engine the "computer" will tell you everything is just fine.
 
if I still changed my oil every 3000 miles I would be doing it every 6 weeks. I drive em until it tells me it's time. Usually that's more than 7000 miles. My 04 gmc now has 170k mikes and still runs like new. I have several other GM models with over 200k miles that get the same treatment.
All the GM vehicles I've owned or changed oil on require 5 pumps of the gas pedal to reset the oil life monitor. Never seen one that required only 3 or to pump the brake pedal.
 
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