# Do Your Own Maintenance - Car Last Longer?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-your-own-maintenance-car-last-longer/161956>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [March 27, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-your-own-maintenance-car-last-longer/161956 "2020-03-27T22:05:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Liza-Baby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@Liza-Baby](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Liza-Baby)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-your-own-maintenance-car-last-longer/161956/43 "2022-08-01T14:55:31Z")

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I remember asking dealer abt soething in my 2013 Fit booklet. Dealer was amazed I had read the booklet (he certainly noticed all of my yellow referewnce stickies).

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**Author:** ![shanonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@shanonia](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shanonia)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-your-own-maintenance-car-last-longer/161956/44 "2022-08-01T18:55:12Z")

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Dealer might also know that most of his employees have not read the book!

My favorite such story: I told a service writer at a Honda dealership that I had been using synthetic oil in my (almost new) Honda Civic. [Owners manual says that’s OK.] He said, “Honda recommends against synthetic oil. It doesn’t have enough [he paused, searching his vocabulary]… grit.”

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**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-your-own-maintenance-car-last-longer/161956/45 "2022-08-01T19:03:37Z")

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But maybe it has true grit…

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/3/d/3d62a0744565db5904cba20587a3e58fa70e47de.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-your-own-maintenance-car-last-longer/161956/46 "2022-08-01T19:42:27Z")

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The Acura dealer had a bbq for new owners. They went over all the stuff in the manual of interest, and everyone from the service manager got a chance to add their two cents worth. Good information and a free meal, that I suppose we prepaid as part of the overhead.

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**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/do-your-own-maintenance-car-last-longer/161956/47 "2022-08-01T23:52:54Z")

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> [@bing](#):
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> Acura dealer had a bbq for new owners

That seems like pretty good customer treatment. If my dealership did that then I’d be more inclined to buy a car there next time as well, it’s a win/win.

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