20 seconds of my time isnt going to compromise anything. Wont cost me money. Wont make me late. Wont make the wife mad. Lets be honest here. 20 seconds of your time is pretty worthless in all reality too. Lets not pretend that the world is on your shoulders. I could see if we are talking about DIY maintenance or something of a significant amount of time. Seconds, we are talking about seconds. You think far too highly of yourself if you think a few seconds a month is going to have any impact on absolutely anything.
Justify it however you like. Pretending there is no issue and thinking "It wont happen to me" only goes so far for so long.
Use case makes a huge difference as well. Most of us bought a sports car to drive it like a sports car. For those who dont treat the car like driving an Uber with the Pope in the backseat, this stuff matters.
Idk why im even still typing. Your time is clearly too important to even take the time to read it. Why come to a forum to discuss anything? Just follow the manual, drive the speed limit and the world will be filled with rainbows and unicorns.
As I have always said, use scenario matters a lot. We both know you and I drive our cars differently. What's funny is that I probably get under the hood more often than 80% of the owners of these cars do (and 95% of "regular" car owners). I'm also pretty sure that I would notice if it started leaking oil at any kind of appreciable rate without looking under the hood - if it was burning, I would smell it and see it. If it was dripping through, it would get to the ground pretty quickly and I would see it. I happen to know that it currently doesn't lose a drop over 7500 miles and for me, and that time goes by every 4.5 months.
How did Singleminded find out his PCV was a problem? By seeing that it was losing oil during oil changes - not because he looked under the hood every other day. In any event, I get the group think on boards like this is you've got to check your oil once a week or you are a heretic. I also know that group think always subscribes to the "better safe than sorry" thought rather than a cost/benefit analysis that weighs the costs vs. benefits. I do not subscribe to this group think. I think you are underweighting the costs and overweighting the benefits for a person with my use scenario, you think I am doing the opposite. Fair enough ...
