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Article #9276Re: Best Buy Treated Me Like a Thief
From: Fred
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:23
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:23
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kenji wrote: > I believe it's how you drive the car that determines how badly your > exhaust system wears out. > > My second car, now a 95, has had two sets of mufflers because we only > put about 3500-4000 miles per year on the car and they're all short > trips. That short trip driving is hard on many components, not only the exhaust system, because the components don't get hot enough to boil off impurities, including water. So exhaust systems corrode from the inside out from the water that collects in them, engines wear prematurely from the contaminants that collect in the oil, and so on. For warranty purposes, urban stop-and-go driving is considered to be severe service. I'm in the same boat as you are, so I follow the severe service recommendations and make a point of getting the car on the highway periodically, so that it can run at full tempreature for an extended period of time.
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