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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Grit dog wrote:
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.
Does this raise some "chance" of engine damage or reduced service life?
Yeah, the engine will probably only go 200k miles instead of 300k before needing a rebuild.
Of course the coach will probably never see anything near 200k miles before it’s scrapped, but that’s a whole other silly argument.........
I’ve got a Kubota tractor I bought when it was around 15 years old with about 500 hours on it. It came with ‘all the service records’. The break-in oil was changed out at 50 hours when it was 6 months old, and the oil was changed again at 100 hours when it was a year old.
That was the last oil change done until I bought it about 14 years later.
It now, another 12 years later, has about 6,000 hours on it. Other than changing a battery it has not needed ANY repairs in all that time and still has oil pressure and compression are well within factory spec.
The sky has still not fallen.........
