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your reasoning is flawed. Start/stopping an engine is harder on it than driving on the highway. Highway miles are easier on an engine, even a hybrid. Then there is idling time too. Shutting off the engine saves gas but it doesn’t save your engine. Most of your engine wear happens when starting...

im am talking about the hybrids. The 2.0 liter is working really hard. I wouldn’t push that oil to the limits. Sure the oil may still be good but what is floating around in it

from what I have been hearing is the engine and transmissions are pretty good in these vehicles. CV axels not so much. There is no way I am going to push an oil change out to 10k miles. That is just too far. Maybe all highway driving but that isn’t the most of us. If we want these engines to...

ive been seeing all kinds of reporting Sometimes it depends on when the story was posted.

im thinking more of needing service down the road. It may need some service that requires the bumper come off

that is awesome. Good dealers are hard to find.

I don't trust the OLM. For one thing, it has no idea what the quality of oil you have. I change the oil on my 09 CRV at 5-6k miles and the OLM says it is at 60% life. If you can't trust the OLM on a turbo engine why do you think you can trust it on a nonturbo or hybrid? 12k is just too darn far...

Mavericks and Bronco Sports are brought in on rail. I don't know where they go through customs.

If that's what it says

The tariff will be paid on anything that isn't sitting on US soil when the tariff takes effect. One guy was asking about buying it in Mexico and driving it here. He still has to go through customs and it will have to be tagged and titled here to drive it on US highways. Nothing has a bigger...

Read your contract or purchase agreement. I bet they wrote themselves a loophole. They may not have to honor the price and you don't have to accept a higher price. I don't know unless you read what you signed.

So far in the 3 months I have owned it, I am lucky if 1/3 of my miles are electric miles. It is far less than 1/2

I have NO way of knowing how much the gas engine runs or don't run in my hybrid. I guess I could subtract off the electric miles from the total miles and make a guess. Even at that, that engine will still be idling some when it isn't moving. I can make the case that you can go further if you...

QUALITY oil will still get dirty and get contaminated with stuff from the combustion process. It doesn't matter what oil you use, it will need to be changed regularly. Turbos add to the stress and breakdown of the oil. Quality oils don't breakdown as fast but they still get contaminated

I have a 24 Hybrid Lariat. 5-6k miles for me or one year.

When the only tool you have is a hammer. Everything looks like a nail

Cut costs or raise prices or accept a lower profit margin. Those are the choices

If you are generating it in the right location.

I have stated energy is different than goods. Energy is traded on the futures markets and we see the effects immediately. Goods are different. It is like they get an air shipment on oil, but they are always slow to come down. The markets set the price of oil and gas. OEMs will set the MSRP of...

I am not just talking about the turbo and the screen. Sludge gets in the engine if you don't change the oil and things get gummed up. I have dealt with a few bad dealers myself. I am 65 years old. My dad used to be a mechanic too.