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that rarely needs fixing and goes 10,000 miles between scheduled maintenance stops

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Oh! I don't even have those!!!! I've got a flexible Service system! Currently (after 2k miles... Suckers are pilling on quick, thanks to the holidays) I've got 9700 miles before I'm supposed to take it in. The car itself is still breaking itself in.... The computer is limiting the performance and beefing up the fuel map to break it in better than a human ever could. At 6k miles, the car is done, and you get a nice performance boost plus better gas mileage.

But the FSS is very cool. Run it hard, and you can watch the service interval get shorter... Take it easy on a long trip and it goes back up. It's got a maximum service interval of 20k miles.

As you said... the computers have their advantages...