How many miles have you Drove so far in your HHR?
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Joined: 04-30-2006
Posts: 9,149
From: Maryland Heights, MO
Originally Posted by James06
2,600 miles since 7/15/06. I'm going to keep a close eye on the oil to determine if the computer is calculating right.
From what I understand, it is not done by miles but rather by sensing driving style (miles/speed) and the condition of the oil. Its been 4000 since my last oil change and it still saying I've got over 50% oil life left.
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Joined: 05-09-2006
Posts: 6,805
From: "Upland" Mesa, Arizona
Originally Posted by GDZHHR
Just curious...how are you going to determine that?
From what I understand, it is not done by miles but rather by sensing driving style (miles/speed) and the condition of the oil. Its been 4000 since my last oil change and it still saying I've got over 50% oil life left.
From what I understand, it is not done by miles but rather by sensing driving style (miles/speed) and the condition of the oil. Its been 4000 since my last oil change and it still saying I've got over 50% oil life left.
Not quite right. It measures by miles, speed and temperature....NOT condition of oil.....the General is working on that little "ditty" but it's very complicated to analyze oil "on the move".
Oh, and forgot....you really can't get a real accurate oil changing mileage from trying to compute mileage with the percentage of use. Percentage goes down more rapidly at the bottom spectrum of the scale.....kind of like cummulative depletion (at least that is what I was told by "knowledgeable) people.
