I bet drunk tourists are a factor…
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The road was frosty one morning. I slowed down. A guy in a bronco passed me. Then he started to slide. Slid into the shoulder side ways, bounced and over he went. I remember riding in a bronco thinking man, this thing could flip without really trying.
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Texases, that could be a factor. But most of these rollovers happen during the weekday morning rush hour between like 7 to 9 a.m., not at night when I expect tourists to be out drinking
Well, im from Massachusetts and used to sliding on icy roads there. In Hawaii, no ice but you can slide and hydroplane if there’s heavy flash flood rains. But we’ve been in a year long drought.
Been driving cars long enough they all look nice, though much the same, Like a 72 Nova I looked at that had a ventura logo on the dash. Have gotten into the habit of looking at plates before I hop into a car, they all look so similar.
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Chevy Nova looked cool
72 pontiac ventura same car!
Safety and MPG are engineering specs. You have a spec to achieve safety and MPG requirements. The engineers then design the vehicle to meet those specs.
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Was it an old Bronco, or one of the new ones. Pretty sure the new ones have traction control. But then again…driving too fast on slipper roads - anything can happen.
People buy an awd vehicle (car or suv) and then they think they are invincible. They will still continue to drive on icy or snowy roads like it was summer.
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When I first moved to my semi-rural location, I was amazed at the number of people in Jeeps, Explorers, and Blazers who would speed past me on a snowy day, only to see them in a ditch a few miles down the road. Meanwhile, I would motor past them–safely–in my AWD Subaru, clad with winter tires.
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About 20 years ago so the old style.
For what it is worth, overheard someone who worked in the automotive industry as an engineer.
During the manufacturing process, they put in “burn in” oil and filter, and use “assembly lube” while assembling it. They do system testing with this, then drain it and put in “proper” oil and filter, reset the odometer to zero (if it went up) and then send it out to the dealerships.
While mostly automated assembly line, humans are still involved in the process, that make mistakes. Apparently thousands and thousands of humans, just look at the recent strikes in the states.
The obviously don’t just ship it off to the dealerships without doing some sort of basic testing first to ensure the product was assembled correctly, which would likely mean firing up the engine for the first time, while it is still at the factory. Can you imagine, getting into a brand new car at the dealership, you go to start it, and are not able to, because someone somewhere in the assembly process forgot to do something?
Maybe someone who works at the manufacturing/assembly plants can confirm. But I suspect this is the case, and seems logical to do. There is some sort of system testing done on a new vehicle before sending it out as a “new” vehicle, which means starting the car, to ensure that it was assembled correctly. “new” as in it is likely it has already been started before when it gets to the dealership. Even though it has zero on the odometer, it is very unlikely it hasn’t been started for the first time I suspect.
So it’s likely the “burn in” oil has already been removed from the car by the time it gets to the dealership.
You know, new cars are not and never have been pushed out the assembly plant without first starting them and driving them…
If you watch the whole video, you’ll notice that the workers mostly had one job, (I install the Left Headlight, you install the Right Headlight…) so I imagine there was probably one guy, with a really big Right arm, who hand cranked the engine over one each and every car at the end of the assembly line… L o L . . .
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Yeah there are at least a couple of final assembly stations that they are driven to such as alignment and the water test, then driven out the door to the lot. Then driven for the transport
And driven again at the final destination. It would also make sense to burn in the engines like they do for small engines. Then again, engines are only one part of the whole.
OK. Here’s what I’m going to do. I read my supplemental owner’s manual last night and it said: return to us for service " by 5,002 miles or 4/25/2024" for your first service appointment. And because i have that in writing that’s exactly what im going to do, and im going to change the oil and filter at that time and do whatever else they need to do as far as service.
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The first service includes a tire rotation, no oil change. Since you want the oil changed as well, they might offer you a choice of paying for the oil change with the 5,000 mile service or to use your 10,000 service credit.
This is the reason that they will try to explain that the vehicle is not due for an oil change. You could use all of your complementary services in the first year, then be in shock when you are asked $300 for the 20,000 service.
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Hmm, i will need to think about this. Im inclined to request and pay for the oil change just for my piece of mind. But Ill discuss it with the service adviser anyway. Is the dealership implying that the oil will be fine with 10,000 for the first oil change interval?
If it’s truly not due for an oil change and i have a 5 year powertrain warranty should i follow the manufacturer/dealer recommended schedule? I don’t drive that much or far for my current job and lifestyle. I only drive 20 highway miles each way for work and 10 miles on the weekend
As per the Toyota maintenance schedule. The Corolla changed to 10,000 mile oil changes in 2011.
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