Okay....I've had enough of the one I've been using.
I am a careful person....I follow the rules, I obey traffic signs, I don't walk when the street sign say "Don't Walk" and I read my car's owners manuel. When it says "Change", I change. Well, go in today for an oil change and the book says VTM4 fluid should be changed at 7500K and again at 15000K. Didn't have it done at 7500 so at my 10,000+ oil change I said lets go ahead and change that. A surprised face looks back. "Why?" he asks. I say because it is in the book. "Oh really! We've never changed VTM fluid on a Pilot." I question if it should be done then. He says yes, if it is in the book, it needs to be done. But why haven't they ever changed anyones, I ask. "Well....I never read the book. Guess I need to." !!!! Why do I know more about this than they do??? Maybe no one has ever changed it and it would have been fine as it was, but it was on the schedule, so I did it. Service manager kept saying he didn't know b/c the Pilot is so new. I said it had been out over a year...surely I wasn't the only owner to get to 7500K miles. So 3 1/2 hours and $140 later, I left with clean oil and new VTM4 fluid.
I am a careful person....I follow the rules, I obey traffic signs, I don't walk when the street sign say "Don't Walk" and I read my car's owners manuel. When it says "Change", I change. Well, go in today for an oil change and the book says VTM4 fluid should be changed at 7500K and again at 15000K. Didn't have it done at 7500 so at my 10,000+ oil change I said lets go ahead and change that. A surprised face looks back. "Why?" he asks. I say because it is in the book. "Oh really! We've never changed VTM fluid on a Pilot." I question if it should be done then. He says yes, if it is in the book, it needs to be done. But why haven't they ever changed anyones, I ask. "Well....I never read the book. Guess I need to." !!!! Why do I know more about this than they do??? Maybe no one has ever changed it and it would have been fine as it was, but it was on the schedule, so I did it. Service manager kept saying he didn't know b/c the Pilot is so new. I said it had been out over a year...surely I wasn't the only owner to get to 7500K miles. So 3 1/2 hours and $140 later, I left with clean oil and new VTM4 fluid.
