When to change oil
My truck (2016 Chevy diesel) gives me a percentage of oil usage left. At what percentage do you fellas normally change your oil? I normally will let mine get to around 12%-15%. Just curious if you ...
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bob213 wrote:
I have a 2005 Duramax as well. It only has 44,000 miles so if I waited for the dash indicator I would have some pretty old oil before I changed it. We have expensive engines, so $35 a year seems like cheap insurance. I change mine at the start of every camping season unless I make a cross country trip and really do a lot of miles.(8000 plus).
actually the GM system will time out at 0% after 50 weeks. it will go down either by the monitoring of the oil or 2% wk. Since GM says change the oil based on the DIC but at least once/year.
My 2015 often sits for a few weeks between drives, and yup oil life goes down the 2%/wk. During this last year with not much camping mine went to 0% in about 4,000 miles, actually 12 months of limited use.
