I've always got an oil change every 5,000 miles, but I changed mine myself this time due some screw-ups when the last place didn't tell me there was a gaping hole in the air filter cover. (They checked the filter, which I didn't ask them to do nor want them to do.) And I had read some negative reports about K&N air filters, which I've used for years, so I perhaps panicked a bit and changed it sooner than normal, fearful of dirt getting into the engine, and did a UOA just to see how things were.
I drive about 10,000 miles a year with a mix of driving, but I do like to floor it at times. A lot of short trips as I work just 2 miles from the office, and I go back and forth to the office a few times a day. The multi-information display showed 40% remaining life on the oil. The old oil was in the car six months. Don't know the specific oil that Midas used, but the filter was NAPA.
Now that it looks like the air filter hole and K&N filter didn't cause any problems (see if you agree), I was hoping to find out if I can comfortably go longer, until the display tells me 15%, or even longer. I just put in Super Tech full synthetic from Walmart and a Fram Ultra Synthetic oil filter. I am even considering just changing the oil next time and draining then reusing the filter since it's supposedly good for 20K miles.
I drive about 10,000 miles a year with a mix of driving, but I do like to floor it at times. A lot of short trips as I work just 2 miles from the office, and I go back and forth to the office a few times a day. The multi-information display showed 40% remaining life on the oil. The old oil was in the car six months. Don't know the specific oil that Midas used, but the filter was NAPA.
Now that it looks like the air filter hole and K&N filter didn't cause any problems (see if you agree), I was hoping to find out if I can comfortably go longer, until the display tells me 15%, or even longer. I just put in Super Tech full synthetic from Walmart and a Fram Ultra Synthetic oil filter. I am even considering just changing the oil next time and draining then reusing the filter since it's supposedly good for 20K miles.
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