pIERCE

You people are pathetic, I can't believe people actually have to experience their engine oil(it's only the lifeblood of the engine)dangerously low before they figure this stuff out(checking it when you let it sit for a couple hours). I mean, people, c'mon, does your cars longevity matter so little you don't normally do this stuff? Don't you want to make sure your engine is gonna last as long as possible? It's like some people think..."I'm gonna wait and do everything possible that pushes my engine to the limit, and then ckeck the oil and let it WARM UP COMPLETELY"...

I guess this is what happens when you actually listen to your parents and colleagues and learn this stuff before you ever have to worry about it.

Here are some principal I live by.
---Don't necessarily wait for the gauge to move if you're too impatient(it take too long), but after first starting car, let your car idle at its natural speed(DON'T FREAKING GIVE IT GAS SO IT "WARM UP FASTER") on its own for at least a minute, 2 min. if you live in extra cold temp areas.
---Don't rev, whether in gear or stopped, over 3500 rpm until your car is completely warmed(needle halfway on gauge).
---(I know this is inconvenient, but this is what I do)Check your oil(after it has been sitting for at least 2 hours) before you VTEC any time!

Do you realize the damage of vtec'ing a cold engine when low on oil? Like I said, these sound really restricting, but this is just the way I operate my car.

But honestly, you guys should have known this long before you ever drove a car, much less let it be the way you actually run it.

prepreludesh

I feel the same way and I am ashamed when I let it go for that long and find it so low. But you can't blame it on the fact we don't care about cars. I know for me at my old place, every single parking spot was on some kind of incline or decline, so I couldn't do it there. And it seemed dumb to drive down the street to find somewhere flat to check it. And sometimes during the day you're in such a go go go attitude that you don't have time to check it when filling up.

There's really too many factors that can go wrong and result in this. In a perfect world, we'd always follow our Honda Manuals and check the oil every fillup

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candlewax20

like i said pIERCE i checked it as soon as the car started acting up, i know i should of checked it earlier but that is the first thing i looked at when i filled up after i noticed something wasnt quite right, and the reading i got wasnt very accurate, from what i saw at the gas station the oil was fine but it had been running a while so i went back to campus let it sit then i checked the oil and as soon as i found out i was low i ran to walmart at about 12:00am and picked up some oil.
i care very much about my car, i love it, but i guess i should of checked it more often, but all in all its running like a champ now

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corpuszero

Yeah, very identical to the RAZR keypad

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candlewax20

lol for sure

pIERCE

Well, thats good, at least you guys know to keep up on this in the future, thats what really counts.

Maybe this doesn't naturally occur to some people, but the reason why you can't accurately check the out the oil is cause there is so much splosh that it is very uneven on the dipstick; it is not so much as the oil is still not settled yet, it's is that the dip stick just isn't accurate, I've looked at my dip stick an 1 1/2 hours after shutting it down, and it was still COMPLETELY innacurate compared to what I read the next morning(I han't driven it the time between either).

Prepreludesh- yeah man, thats is a pretty tough stop to be in, I honestly don't know what I would even do in such a situation.