PP oci question (low miles but long interval)

[lemonade]

I have a 02 Lexus IS300 Auto, i changed my oil with PP early January this year, it has been 9 months already and i have only acuumulated 5000 miles so far. The question is should i change it right now or i can still wait for a little bit?

I usually drive a 6 miles trip forth and back (12 -13 in total per day) and unfortunately it's 80% local, but not much stuck in traffic though.

The manual said for severe service i need to change the oil 5000 miles or 6 months. Oh and it's a 5.7 quart sump, but i always put in 6 quarts. It burns about 1/2 to 3/4 quart of oil per 5000 miles. 100K on the odometer.

To be honest i'm not babying the car anymore, it's just a car for transportation, but i don't want to neglect maintenance. Whatever need to be done, i will do.

Any comments or recommendations are greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance~

 

[Bill in Utah]

Since you are not seeing any severe temps and not really "babying" it any more you can prob do 5000 miles or 9 months with any API am oil or 1 year with PP and be fine.

Personally I'd do 5000 mils with a oil like Pennzoil yellow bottle and call it a day.

Take care, bill

 

[Lethal1ty17]

its good to go, change it at 7k since you do short trips and call it a day.

 

[HTSS_TR]

Originally Posted By: lemonade
I have a 02 Lexus IS300 Auto, i changed my oil with PP early January this year, it has been 9 months already and i have only acuumulated 5000 miles so far. The question is should i change it right now or i can still wait for a little bit?

I usually drive a 6 miles trip forth and back (12 -13 in total per day) and unfortunately it's 80% local, but not much stuck in traffic though.

The manual said for severe service i need to change the oil 5000 miles or 6 months. Oh and it's a 5.7 quart sump, but i always put in 6 quarts. It burns about 1/2 to 3/4 quart of oil per 5000 miles. 100K on the odometer.

To be honest i'm not babying the car anymore, it's just a car for transportation, but i don't want to neglect maintenance. Whatever need to be done, i will do.

Any comments or recommendations are greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance~

What type of oil is recommended ? Dino or Synthetic ?

If the recommend oil is dino, then you can safely extend the OCI to 7-8k miles or 1 year whichever is first.

 

[sangyup81]

7.5k miles or 1 year, whichever comes first since you are using a full synthetic even if there is more than 80% city

 

[lemonade]

To HTSS: The manual recommend dino.

Great, seems like i will change the oil at the end of the year around Christmas time.
Thanks for the reply.

 

[y2k345]

It works out for me to change my PP oil every two years about 4500KMs in a 5.7Liter gas 4x4 1995 Chevy truck.

 

[lemonade]

Originally Posted By: y2k345
It works out for me to change my PP oil every two years about 4500KMs in a 5.7Liter gas 4x4 1995 Chevy truck.

2 years!? Did you do an UOA to confirm the oil is in good shape after 2 years?

 

[y2k345]

Last month was 1 year now and its only got 1600kms or 1000 miles.

 

[FZ1]

1 year max. I would switch to M1 EP,were I going 1 year.

 

[Lethal1ty17]

Originally Posted By: lemonade
Originally Posted By: y2k345
It works out for me to change my PP oil every two years about 4500KMs in a 5.7Liter gas 4x4 1995 Chevy truck.

2 years!? Did you do an UOA to confirm the oil is in good shape after 2 years?


there was a UOA on here a while ago where the guy changed it with castrol gtx and then it sat in a garage for 17 years. the UOA actually showed that just sitting in the sump isnt hard on oil at all, in fact it was still good.

 

[bigmike]

I'm shocked someone hasn't recommended doing MORE changes in this person's case. I'd go to PYB and change every 6 months or less. Too much short tripping and long intervals isn't helping anything.

 

[Bill in Utah]

Originally Posted By: bigmike
I'm shocked someone hasn't recommended doing MORE changes in this person's case. I'd go to PYB and change every 6 months or less. Too much short tripping and long intervals isn't helping anything.


I went close to that. But he has said;

Originally Posted By: lemonade

To be honest i'm not babying the car anymore, it's just a car for transportation, but i don't want to neglect maintenance. Whatever need to be done, i will do.


so to be honest if he changes it with any oil (PYB will be certainly an excellent choice) every 5,000 miles it will be fine for his use.

I agree with you though, if he wanted to make sure that all is perfect and keep the car going for a long time, 6mo OCI no matter the miles would be a safe smart bet!

Bill

 

[TJPark01]

Or you can suck out 3 OZ of fluid through the dipstick and have it analyzed to see if you're ok.
Collecting an oil sample for analysis

 

[lemonade]

Originally Posted By: TJPark01
Or you can suck out 3 OZ of fluid through the dipstick and have it analyzed to see if you're ok.
Collecting an oil sample for analysis

Hum, that tools looks interesting, may be i should get 1 and send in my 1st oil analysis~