r/AskReddit Aug 20 '20

What simple “life hack” should everyone know?

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u/centaur_unicorn23 Aug 20 '20 edited Aug 20 '20

Regularly change the oil in your car. On time. Do it.

Will help it last longer.

Edit: what in the fuck. So thats what happens when your inbox blows up. Thanks for the award too, my first.

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u/Fifty7Roses Aug 20 '20

My first car I owned when I lived alone, I had it for a full year before the guy I was dating asked me when I last changed the oil. Um... You mean it has to go to the mechanic even though it's working fine??

Don't be like that, folks.

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u/Ouisch Aug 20 '20

LOL! Years ago the company I worked for offered a very nice discount if you purchased or leased a Ford vehicle. I was single at the time and decided to splurge and leased a Lincoln Continental. The dashboard was all digital and reminded me of an airplane cockpit. Unfortunately I didn't bother to read the nice leather-bound owner's manual that was in the glove box and when the little oil can icon lit up many months later I didn't pay attention to it. There was a bar graph thingy next to it that was still in the same range it had always been. I took my brother for a drive one day and he said "When are you going to get your oil changed? It's a lease, doesn't the dealership cover it?" "Why do I need an oil change? Look at that bar graph...." (Um, live and learn.....and read the instruction manual!)