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"think"? The manufacturer specifies the interval, and you best follow it if you'd like your warranty honored.
by st26 9y ago
"think"? The manufacturer specifies the interval, and you best follow it if you'd like your warranty honored.
- seattle_spring 9y agoMost people don't follow the manufacturer's recommendation, they follow the "Jiffy Lube" recommendation which is every 3000 miles. 3000 miles is a ridiculous interval.
- astura 9y agoMy manufacturer specifies 1 year or 10,000 miles. However, growing up I was told that you shouldn't go more than 3 months or 3,000 miles between oil changes.
- dmh2000 9y agowell back in the day, say before 1990, many cars needed that because the engines were so bad. a combination of plain old poor quality and immature technology for reducing emissions . So it became a meme.
- dboreham 9y agoThat hasn't been true since the 60's or before, when oil was very different than today's (or the 90s). We know that the 3000 or 5000 mile oil change interval is pure nonsense because the exact same engines magically have 10-20k mile oil change intervals in Europe.
- dboreham 9y agoCurious, have you actually read their specification? I ask because it is oven much longer than people think. The cars are configured to "warn" you that the oil needs to be changed, but the miles to change is a soft configuration that is under-provisioned (presumably due to $$ made by people selling you oil you don't need). You can ask the oil changing people (or do it yourself if sufficiently motivated) to change the interval.
- st26 9y agoMy old Tacoma was 5k. My Subaru is 6k. Does that answer your question?