Burning oil?
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Burning oil?
I have 1,600 miles on my new Acura TSX. The car is great but the computer is saying I have 50% oil life left. I do a lot of short rides. 5 miles to an from the train station 5 days a week. Is this normal? The dealer said 10,000 miles the info says 5,000 for city but this is going tto be about 3,200 miles.
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And just for reference, my first oil change came at 3786 miles because my driving was largely short distance and included a lot of starts.
The maintenance minder considers a variety of factors so it's simply your driving demands that are causing the oil life to fall this quickly.
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I'm at 1190 miles with 70% left. It's been sitting at 70% for a long time, so it must be a pretty big range/interval.
I only do city driving now
I'm still on the oil from the factory...still debating on whether I should go in for an oil change now, or wait until the maintenance light
I only do city driving now
I'm still on the oil from the factory...still debating on whether I should go in for an oil change now, or wait until the maintenance light
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The oil life button measures the pH balance of the oil oas well as how many hours the engine has been running and the conditions it has been driven in. The percentage almost never matches with what the book will say. I used to have customers call me about it all the time when I worked at a Honda dealership. They were always panicked. But, just pay attention to the oil life. Your car knows when it needs to have the oil changed.
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Well you are right, my terminology was wrong. I'm not burning oil. The oil guage on the dash is reading 50% life at 1,600 miles. I always changed my oil on all previos cars at 3,500 mi. This is not a problem. My concern was that if the Acura dealer say's change the oil at 10,000 mi. why am I so far from that. I know that living in the city I do a lot of short rides, and I do city driving, this is I'm sure the reason. I just wanted to see if others with the Acura TSX are also having a short oil life.
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Originally Posted by BobA
Well you are right, my terminology was wrong. I'm not burning oil. The oil guage on the dash is reading 50% life at 1,600 miles. I always changed my oil on all previos cars at 3,500 mi. This is not a problem. My concern was that if the Acura dealer say's change the oil at 10,000 mi. why am I so far from that. I know that living in the city I do a lot of short rides, and I do city driving, this is I'm sure the reason. I just wanted to see if others with the Acura TSX are also having a short oil life.
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Originally Posted by RockBlocker
The oil life button measures the pH balance of the oil
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Originally Posted by SodaLuvr
No it does not. The OLM calculates oil life based upon a computer algorithm. There is no oil condition sensor at all. VWs in Europe are the only vehicles that I know of, that have an actual oil condition sensor.
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