One oil change in 11000 miles?
I'm considering a beautiful, garage kept 2007 Winnie Adventurer with the W24 Workhorse chassis. Unfortunately, it has only had one oil change, and that was at 6000 miles. I also wonder about the en...
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Some of you people crack me up with 2000mile oil changes and the belief that if an engine sits longer than 12mo without an oil change that it is going to magically self destruct.
YES, the time based reccomendations are to enhance longevity by not storing old oil that may have compromised lubrication properties, but that is about as far from an absolute as a trip to the moon.
I have machines that I baby and they get an annual oil change regardless of hours (the boat) and machines that get an oil change after every use (4s MX bikes). I also have machines that haven't seen an oil change in many years (jeep) that gets driven seldomly to not at all.
I've never seen physical evidence of failure or even anecdotal evidence of failure due to exceeding time based OCI reccomendations.
This across fleets of hundreds or thousands of engines of all different types throughout my career.
Does this raise some "chance" of engine damage or reduced service life? I'm sure it does, but I don't know the probability any more than any of the chicken little sky is falling posts saying it will blow up 10 min after you get the title signed over.
It's a risk vs reward thing. What's your tolerance and can you build the tolerance into the sales price? It's a gasser, so engines are comparatively cheap. Can you get it for $5-10 grand less than a comparable unit that has had extra oil changes? That much in savings will partially or completely recover the cost of an early failure down the road, IF you ever have an issue.
YES, the time based reccomendations are to enhance longevity by not storing old oil that may have compromised lubrication properties, but that is about as far from an absolute as a trip to the moon.
I have machines that I baby and they get an annual oil change regardless of hours (the boat) and machines that get an oil change after every use (4s MX bikes). I also have machines that haven't seen an oil change in many years (jeep) that gets driven seldomly to not at all.
I've never seen physical evidence of failure or even anecdotal evidence of failure due to exceeding time based OCI reccomendations.
This across fleets of hundreds or thousands of engines of all different types throughout my career.
Does this raise some "chance" of engine damage or reduced service life? I'm sure it does, but I don't know the probability any more than any of the chicken little sky is falling posts saying it will blow up 10 min after you get the title signed over.
It's a risk vs reward thing. What's your tolerance and can you build the tolerance into the sales price? It's a gasser, so engines are comparatively cheap. Can you get it for $5-10 grand less than a comparable unit that has had extra oil changes? That much in savings will partially or completely recover the cost of an early failure down the road, IF you ever have an issue.
