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Did you mean kilometers instead of miles? Man ..that's still a stretch @ 36k miles for an OCI. Then again ..over 3 or 4 OCIs ... I wonder if that was a diesel or something with some sophisticated filtering system or really large sumpquote:
He's from the UK and he mentioned that his car specifies 60K miles for oil & filter changes.
Well, the OEM's aren't. They're pushing 7500 OCIs ..the aftermarket and oil companies are bolstering the 3-4k/3-4 month OCI (shh-and if you glance at the UOA section ...you'll see that they are quite effective at doing soquote:
ut why are US auto's still pushing 3-5k OCI's.
In the US, on the other hand, we have an almost 100% car owning public. We also have a lousy and expensive mass transit system ..and a vast geographical area to traverse fitting much of western Europe several times within our borders (the majority of it)...so a few oz. of fuel per day/per car is more important than a gallon of oil every three months in comparison. That's why, IMHO, we use light weights ..they spec heavy weights.
[ November 01, 2004, 12:00 PM: Message edited by: Gary Allan ]