Negative Miles on Maintenance Minder

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Since the post was almost a month ago, OP's probably already had the oil changed - but one thing someone in this situation could do to cover themselves would be to have the used oil sent to Blackstone Labs for analysis and pay the extra $10 for a TBN analysis. That would tell whether the oil had any life left in it or not. If it did, that report would be useful to counter any damages the dealership might later try to blame on the oil.
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Legally, how is the oil supervisory sensor accurate ? It is very essential to keep engine safe ?
Is it essential because of the use of 0-20 oil ?

Any idea ?
 

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Hondas have had them for 10+ years now. It's just a better way to make sure people who drive lots of short drives get their oil changed soon enough, while also not making people who drive longer drives have to change their oil needlessly early.

Keeping your Honda running well is pretty simple - do what Honda (the manufacturer, not your local dealership) says to do. That includes changing the oil when the oil life gets to 0%.
 

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Legally, how is the oil supervisory sensor accurate ? It is very essential to keep engine safe ?
Is it essential because of the use of 0-20 oil ?

Any idea ?
From what I understand the sensor doesn't actually monitor the oil at all, it just estimates the condition of it based upon the history of your trip characteristics. As @josby said, Honda has been using the system for quite some time now.
 


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Hondas have had them for 10+ years now. It's just a better way to make sure people who drive lots of short drives get their oil changed soon enough, while also not making people who drive longer drives have to change their oil needlessly early.

Keeping your Honda running well is pretty simple - do what Honda (the manufacturer, not your local dealership) says to do. That includes changing the oil when the oil life gets to 0%.
or oil changed once a year, even if oil life if not at 0%
 

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OP: Relax, I reset my settings and MM by accident several times while fumbling but learning the ropes. I am at 5500 miles on the ODO "clock" so what you can extrapolate from that is if I had not reset the MM by accident on two occasions, my oil change would have been at 3500-4000 miles. No way I am changing my FF early.

You might have helped yourself out a tremendous amount by leaving the FF in longer. I know I am and i am only at 5500 miles and in no real hurry. I might try to break your record cause leaving the FF in longer actually helps to prevent future oil burning and compensation. I bet you didn't know that. Keep in mind, I reset it on accident twice with sig time clips in between and have 5500 miles and not worried. It was too early anyway and it doesn't monitor the oil itself, just driving statistics, to me, not long enough. You did good work, good job.
 

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FWIW, to deny a warranty claim, they would have to prove that the failure to provide adequate maintenance caused the problem that you're making a claim for.

Had you left the oil in there for 20,000 miles and bricked your engine with the hardened sludge? Absolutely they will deny a warranty.

For 4,000-5,000 miles? You didn't break your engine from that.
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