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Originally Posted by TPI Monte SS
 One of the teachers I work with just bought a new Honda Accord. It has an oil change life monitor, so you don't change it until the car says it is at 20%. I think she's gone over 8K miles already and it still said it was at 40%. I have no idea what that percentage means - whether its how effective the oil is or what, I dunno. |
GMs oil life monitor works on a mathematical equation of run time, idle time, load, and temps to determine the time to change. it doesnt actually measure the oil itself. it calculates how the oil
should be given the information gathered by the computer. honduh probably has about the same system.