Originally Posted By: dlundblad
Originally Posted By: 2010_FX4
Originally Posted By: dlundblad
90 miles on the odometer? Your oil will be fine for some time. Most here seem to recommend changing the factory fill early.. Perhaps at 3000-4000 miles. I'd personally go that route myself. Maybe even change it sooner. As for the OLM, dealers are known to crank down the settings so you'll be back more frequently for oil changes. Figure out how to change it back to read 100% yourself. If the dealer truly did this, they will have an excuse as to why they did it and will fight you on switching it back.
Then again, perhaps it was short tripped as a demo for 40 or so two mile test drives or was a "mule car" to run around to vendors in the area and thus the OLM is reading correctly. I would let it run down to about 20% (or 1-2K miles) and dump it, thereby removing the break-in metal that is/will be floating around in the oil.
Quite possible and I thought of that after reading other replies.
40% in 90 miles seems like a lot to me though. At least with my dads Ford, you can see what its original oil life setting was at. It allows you to start fresh oil at basically any percentage you want. I wonder if the OP has that feature on his car.
*If it is indeed correct, I agree with FX4 on changing it early.
I'm not sure, I'll have to check if it allows to be reset to another percentage other than 100.
I really appreciate the replies, sounds like it would be best to try and get the dealer to change the oil and if they won't use my first free oil change sooner rather than later.