Oil changes en-route with camper on truck?

Not changing the oil is easy to notice, so not too many crooks will go that far.
But quite often lazy "mechanics" don't want to get their arms dirty on filter replacement, or don't have 1 in stock, so they wipe the filter clean and call it a day.
Oil trapped in big filter will change new oil color right away.

^ This is a highly unlikely scenario, but possible I suppose. Far more likely that you had/have a truck that dirty's the oil right away.

I'm a big fan of Walmart but one time I dropped my 5er in the lot and took the truck for an oil change. The next day (500 miles down the road) I checked the oil and it was blackish. I believe they didn't actually change the oil. Went to a dealer and got it done "again".

Long drive if you're the other side of the country from your dealer....I think that's what this thread wuz about?

I take my Ram back to the dealer. $10 labor. I buy my own Cummins filter and Rotella T6. I stand there and watch them.

I put 3 gallons in my 6.7 Powerstroke and it makes it 1/2 the dipstick scale.
Engine doesn't use the oil to require addition on 8-10k miles intervals.
In older days I used to carry spare fuel filter and belt in all vehicles (as well as CPS on early digital engines), but lately all gas stations have double-wall tanks and those things tend to last for 20 years before need for replacement

Do you guy really have only 8-10 quarts in your diesels?

As far as Walmart goes, they usually also have Motorcraft filters although one I bought had been opened and the wrong one put in. If I was going to go on a trip, I’d probably bring my own stock of Ford/Motorcraft filters.

chiefneon wrote:

Kayteg1 wrote:
Get Fumoto valve and you will smile each time you drain the oil.

Howdy!

Those are great if you change your oil yourself. I had one in my truck when we first started fulltiming and had places refuse to do the work with it installed are I’ed go back to using one.

“Happy Trails”
Chiefneon

I never used any chain oil changers, but read enough horror stories to think that Fumoto valve require higher skills to open and that was the reason for refusal ;)
Trucks have huge plugs, but on fellow Mercedes forum, you will read how "Speedylube" strips the threads and lately, they cut hole in belly cover as they could not figure out how to remove 6 holding screws.
Anyway, I made 8,000 miles trip this summer and still have some oil life left (Scangauge has X gauge to monitor that).
But all I need to do oil change are couple of wood planks to drive front wheels on and I fit under RWD truck just fine.
Couple of milk bottles to catch oil from pan and the only problem is bottom-mounted filter who splash some oil, but on the road a big garbage bag should catch the couple of oz.
Finding the place (in the woods?) where nobody would bother you might be the hardest part.

Still speculating the earl change big hat? It's ok, both you and your truck will survive this seemingly stressful experience.....

Fortunately my 2018 Ram CTD has a 15,000 mile oil change interval. I was able to take a 4 month cross country trip and return just before a change was needed.