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Figure the best/easiest thing to do is change your oil - 3 months/3k miles is a very good standard. My father-in-law changes the oil on his vehicles every 2k miles and about every 2 months or so... but when you have junker cars with over 400k miles on it that still run well, doesn't seem like too bad of a deal (got rid of the car because of hail-damage actually heh).
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You literally can't change it
too often. But, anything under ~3000 will get into diminishing returns. Synth can go longer, but you could be just as anal and do it every 3k
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Now here's a question - with a manual it was always my understanding that it was better when parking to put the car in neutral and have the parking break (emergency break) on rather than have the car in gear and putting the break on. right?
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Put it in first gear with the brake on. either one is fine by itself (just having it in gear is fine on a level parking lot, for instance, if you're running in for something)
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Also, when stopped at lights it was my understanding that you take the car out of gear rather than sit with the clutch pushed in. got docked every freaking time i did that when I first took my drivers test - their reasoning was that if my car wasn't in gear I wouldn't be able to move from the light quickly in case I needed to :P lol...
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Better on the throw out bearing to have the clutch engaged (meaning your foot off the pedal). A clutch disengage puts hundreds (thousands sometimes) of pounds of pressure on the bearing. Keeping the pedal down will increase wear, but at the same time, adding pedal usages will just move wear to the master/slave cylinders. judgement call. doesn't really matter
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