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Originally Posted by WNDSRFR
Just curious. When you rent a car do you read the owners manual from cover to cover?
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First, it's not a rental. He owns it. You don't read the manual in a rental because you don't need to know the maintenance schedule, specs for fluids, what strange noises it might make, etc. Just as you don't read the manual for the television or alarm clock in a hotel room.
Second, I rent a lot of cars, and while I don't read the manual, I often do consult it (if it's included in the car, which sometimes it isn't) if there's a feature I want to disable or the car does something unexpected.
To be fair, that note was in an obscure location in the older owners' manuals, so you might even read it cover to cover and miss it. Not sure where it is in the newer ones.
What has always puzzled me instead is why so many people who ask about it think something is wrong with their cars. If I hear a clunk or a scraping sound, yeah, maybe I'll wonder if everything is all right. But the sound of an electric motor running is not usually the sound that something is broken. "OMG my tank is leaking, and the gasoline built itself a motor to help itself escape!"
I was working in a conference room yesterday where we could hear the elevator motors coming on and off in the machine room across the hall, and nobody's first thought was to summon building maintenance.