oops .... forgot to change the oil
I've never been overly concerned about oil changes although I am pretty good about changing the oil in my F350 with full synthetic every 25k km. However, some of our other vehicles can get a little ne...
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midnightsadie wrote:
I,m not for anything over 10k for a oil, and filter change, I don,t like all that nasty looking oil going threw my engines,
We short changed the wife's minivan when new, next one we decided to go with the oil quality indicator, took 12k miles before it came on. When we had the oil changed I had a retain sample taken, it still had a nice ruby color, almost no black, lab said it still had a bunch of additive life left and the oil itself was in good but not great shape. Since then I have stopped worrying about it and just follow the idiot light. My car is older (04) so I follow the manufacturer's 5k mile recommendation but don't worry if I go a few hundred or even a few thousand over. The truck also gets 5k mile changes with full synthetic due to the much heavier duty cycle of 90% towing.
