Need oil change location when touring?
Road Master
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From: Riverside, Ca.
Double Ditto, you have no idea whose coming to dinner and you could be on the menu.
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Change it before you leave for the trip.
5 - 6 thou intervals on todays oils. I wouldn't be afraid to push it a lil further if the trip required it.
No need to trust a stranger who already knows you are from out of town and will never see you again.
5 - 6 thou intervals on todays oils. I wouldn't be afraid to push it a lil further if the trip required it.
No need to trust a stranger who already knows you are from out of town and will never see you again.
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If you're really going to tour further than 6,000 miles or so, pull into an Autozone, buy the oil and a cheap drain pan, change the oil in the parking lot, and leave the pan full of oil there for them to recycle. Or you could pay a dealer to do it. Less than a 6,000 mile trip and you're fine on fresh oil.
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I am with 05Train. Auto Zone, Advanced Auto, NAPA and Car Quest usually have recycle stations. And if you buy your oil there they will let you use a drain pan. I usually do the deed in the back of the store at the recycle dump. griffy
Road Master
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From: Riverside, Ca.
If your referring to exposing our families to the possible nuts on the road, I don't follow your comment. You may help 100 good folks but it's that one nut that will ruin your day.
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Afterall, it's only one guy out of 100.
I'm with the "don't trust strangers" persons.
Maybe I'll settle for the "trust but verify" lingo. LOL
If I don't invite you in, less chance anything of value will be missing when you leave.
This is a pretty sad thread to read. My what we have become!!! "in todays day and age"??? lets not forget its us making it that way!!
I agree it's hard to read (and hard to accept), but it's the reality of the times.
When I was young, I never felt reluctant to hitch hike across the country.
Met some wonderful people (and a few F*gs).
Would I feel safe doing that today? Hell no! The world as we knew it has changed.
Road Warrior
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LMAO...thats funny!!.. I understand that it is the way it is and that times change. Use common sense and we will all be ok. by the way Im in Reno if you need a garage..lol
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No, it's not us. It's "they". LOL
I agree it's hard to read (and hard to accept), but it's the reality of the times.
When I was young, I never felt reluctant to hitch hike across the country.
Met some wonderful people (and a few F*gs).
Would I feel safe doing that today? Hell no! The world as we knew it has changed.[/QUOTE]
I don't think so.
I think you have changed. So have I and just about every other middle aged and older person. Unfortunately, we become less self sufficient (except financially) and less self confident in strange surroundings.
I also hitch hiked and rode solo from coast to coast depending on some kindness of strangers. It can probably still be done by the young and brave but they will have a more difficult time coming across Americans equally brave enough to take in a stranger.
I think that I just talked myself into contradicting my beginning sentence. It is a different world (at least in the USA). Since 9/11, Americans have become pussies. We are a nation in fear. BOO!
No, it's not us. It's "they". LOL
I agree it's hard to read (and hard to accept), but it's the reality of the times.
When I was young, I never felt reluctant to hitch hike across the country.
Met some wonderful people (and a few F*gs).
Would I feel safe doing that today? Hell no! The world as we knew it has changed.[/QUOTE]
I don't think so.
I think you have changed. So have I and just about every other middle aged and older person. Unfortunately, we become less self sufficient (except financially) and less self confident in strange surroundings.
I also hitch hiked and rode solo from coast to coast depending on some kindness of strangers. It can probably still be done by the young and brave but they will have a more difficult time coming across Americans equally brave enough to take in a stranger.
I think that I just talked myself into contradicting my beginning sentence. It is a different world (at least in the USA). Since 9/11, Americans have become pussies. We are a nation in fear. BOO!