Should I change my oil in my Accent?

[tarbasd]

Here is my dilemma. I have a 2year old Accent. Oil was changed at 2k, 5k, 9k, and 14k. Currently I have 19500 on the odometer. The first few fills were QS dino 5w-20 (recommended weight), but last time I just used up my leftover 2 qts of QS dino and mixed it with about 2 qts of QSUD 5w-20.

Manual requires 7500 mile intervals, and 3750 with severe usage. Car is driven maybe 60% urban interstates (but traffic jams are very rare here in Louisville), and 40% city streets. I rarely do short trips. According to the manual, this not severe usage. I thought I would go to 7500 miles, but reading this site, it seem that nobody leaves dino oil in the engine that long. Even though this is half synthetic.

I intend to keep using QSUD. Oh, and the filter is OEM, and that's what I will keep using. Should I change the oil now?

Thanks,

 

[4ever4d]

I am not comfortable with any thing over 5k myself but with that said as i'm sure many will agree 7.5k is not an unusual amount of miles to go even on conventional no less a mixed semi. As for the filter i don't think it needs to be changed until your next oc.

 

[daves87rs]

Should be fine to at least 6k...

 

[DragRace]

You can change your oil now if it's gonna let you sleep better at night

 

[randomhero439]

QSUD for the 7500 or QS conventional for 3750.

 

[KrisZ]

You will also find that the majority here never go over 5k OCI on synthetic either.

Personally I would do 5k on any conventional and be done with it, but if you want to use synthetic, bump it to 7.5k.
Plenty of GM owners here use synthetics to take full advantage of OLM's long OCI.
If you want to go beyond 7.5k, I think that few UOAs are needed.

 

[JavierG]

You stated that your manual indicates 7500 miles for normal usage. Does it state that this is for synthetic only? If not then you are fine to leave it in for the full 7500 miles. You'll find that many people on here have no problem using Dino oil for that length of an interval, especially a quality oil like QS. Plus you have a syn blend.

 

[tarbasd]

Thanks for the responses. The manual doesn't mention the word synthetic. Just 5w-20 (or 5w30) SM or better. But I think I will still change it today or tomorrow. This tends to happen to me: I decide on some interval, but then I get nervous... I'll send a sample to Blackstone and post it.

 

[rossn2]

My wife's 2011 Elantra (4cyl) gets 5k mile OCI's with MC 5w-20 and OEM filter..no issues..

 

[KCJeep]

It will be very hard for any one to argue your OCI's if it is within the mileage range specified in the manual and you have a UOA to back up the health of the oil at that interval. However that is out the window if you change to a different oil unless you UOA again.

 

[zerosoma]

Don't lose sleep over it! Quaker State? Dude, push it to 8k. Especially with the syn mix in there.

You're in Kentucky so you can pretty much change the oil whenever you want without weather problems

 

[KCJeep]

Being his car is only two years old, I presume it's under warranty, absolute max his warranty will tolerate is 7,500 mile OCI's. I agree the QSUD should handle that easily.

 

[tarbasd]

Yeah, car is under warranty. So max is 7500. And this is what happened: I finally decided to change the oil now (as I wrote), but then when I'll have pure QSUD in it, I would change it at 7500 miles. Well, guess what: it looks like the local Walmarts stopped carrying the QSUD 5w20 jugs. One store had only bottles, the other had nothing! (I only checked two.) If I buy it in auto store, I would probably have to pay like $35, which about the per bottle price in WM. And I could buy M1 5w20 in Walmart for $25. Now I have to rethinj my strategy again. Sigh...

PS: Yes, I know I overcomplicate this.

 

[KCJeep]

Originally Posted By: tarbasd

PS: Yes, I know I overcomplicate this.


This is BITOG everybody here does that!

Truth is we could all dump about any name brand oil with the "right numbers" on the bottle into our rides and motor blissfully the rest of our life as long as we changed it when we should. But that is way too easy for your average BITOG'er, including me.