When do I need an oil change?
I have a new 2013 Suburban Truck with 4200 miles on it over the past 5 months. I am going to do about 1000 miles this upcoming week, not towing. My oil life indicator says 43% and "oil change not i...
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CKNSLS wrote:dodge guy wrote:
Ignore the oil life marketing ploy. If you follow it say 10k mile oil changes, it could be detrimental to the life of the engine. Sure it may go 100k miles, but at that point it is out of warranty so the manuf doesn't care after that. I've seen a few GM motors sludged up because the owner followed the OLM and went upwards of 12k miles between oil changes. On my excursion I go 4-4500 miles between oil changes and I'm using Mobil1.
I'm a tech and I've seen plenty of failures due to lack of proper maint.
Do what you want, but I wouldn't go over 5k miles between oil changes!
The OLM does it job and has been proven-
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Or they don`t!
Linky!
I know guys that can write a computer program that would say 2+2=5.
Just because the computer says so, doesn`t mean it`s right!
