greasy125 wrote:
Hahhahaha the sheer lunacy that you're rapidly throttling toward is hilarious. The ranting nature of your posts pretty much led everybody to change the channel. People do it how they want and how it's worked out for them, you're not going to change that. Accept it and move on. Being snarky and condescending is childish and rude, dial that way back.
Btw, new bmw and Mercedes cars don't even have dipsticks.
Btw, new bmw and Mercedes cars don't even have dipsticks.
But first let me refresh for those who are following along to help them understand just a little better, as politely as I can.
I made a statement in a post recommending a procedure to ensure not overfilling. I am nothing if not thorough, and have spent considerable time coming up with techniques on my own mostly from life experience to be thorough...read overthink.
Someone calls me out on this thinking as wrong, but does not offer a specific strategy or line of thinking to debate why it is wrong and I come back with a post disagreeing with his calling me out as wrong and try to explain a little further in case there was a misunderstanding on his part or not being clear enough on my part.
He came back again and pulled the 40 year professional mechanic and multi time certified ASE technician for several different brands...clearly describing the credentials of someone who had spent their life doing it as evidence that I was wrong while still providing no concrete or specific strategy or reasons as to why I was wrong.
So now I decide to go and look it up in the service manual for my recently acquired 2006 BV 250 mainly because he pulled the "I've been doing it 40 years card" and that has always been a huge red flag for me, I even respond with the key to avoiding mistakes or doing anything right is to approach like you are doing it the first time and not like you have been doing it 40 years.
Surprisingly enough the factory service manual specifically states step by step very thorough instructions to avoid overfilling crankcase, step one being adding a measured amount of oil. The exact same thing I recommend in the original post that I got called out for being wrong.
The other thing I got called out for was not trusting the dipstick. I tried to make that statement more clear but was not able to communicate that very well and my bad, I apologize but to clarify simply I should have used the word question. Language is important, and there are several scenarios however unlikely they may be where the wrong dipstick is giving you an inaccurate reading. How would one go about answering such a question? Is it wrong to question it at all? I feel like from the fabric of the back and forth that is what I was being called out for chiefly was "my questioning attitude" which I maintain is never wrong.
It is never wrong to question or be curious just as general life principles. It may be unnecessary to complete a task, it may lead to inefficiencies but it is never wrong to question.
Bottom line I was called out for something that my specific factory service manual says is exactly correct and a general life attitude that is a hill I will not back down from. In this specific example the poster who called me out could not be more wrong perfectly illustrating the correctness of the red flag that flies when the "I've been doing this 40 years card is pulled.
Yep sheer lunacy>
