Built like a Mercedes 3672clare at snyder.on.ca Things have changed a bit since 1968 plus 1 though. At least, they have over here Most manufacturers specify exactly the same oil up to 12000...
Built like a Mercedes 3674Steve Interesting because as I remember it there were few emmission controls in Europe until catalytic convertors became mandatory some time around 1989-90. Before this we had a decade of 'lean...
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Built like a Mercedes 3673Huw That was very much NOT the case over here. Engines of the 70s and 80s saw dramatically reduced lifespans, for a number of reasons...
Someone else here said that there were more longer journies and *that* hammered the oil more.
In fact your average use is little different to anywhere else in the World. Some vehicles travel a few hundred yards to a few miles to the shops and school while others hammer up and down the freeways while others deliver stuff door to door and there is every kind of variation in between.
What really strikes as being rather odd is that some rather loud Americans some of whom are here insist that theirs is "worse, bigger, badder, better" than anyone else's according to the point they are trying to make at the time. In this context the car use in America is certainly average. More cars per head of population than most places, yes but the use, varied as anywhere, is only average. The conditions are similarly average, ranging from bad to good and from cold to hot. No particularly special conditions except Alaska and Arizona. Even these are duplicated in many other regions of the world outside N. America. An Irish farmer went to see a big ranch in the mid West of America and fed up with all the bigger-better stories that he heard every day out there replied when the rancher said "it takes me three days in this pickup to travel round the perimiter fence back to my start point" "I'm so sorry things are so bad, I once had a pickup like that"
Huw
