What's your oil change interval?

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Originally Posted By: stranger706
Hey everyone. First post!

The wife's explorer gets M1 0W30 with 5000 mile oci per the OLM. It has 85,000 miles on it. Its sitting in the garage right now waiting for a new alternator to arrive. It'll be its very first repair. I think the high iron from M1 had something to do with it.

My mazda 3 gets M1 0W20. I've always used the 7500 mile oci. It has 52,000 miles on it.


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We have two cars in warranty. 'Yota warranty requires 5K or every six months so six months it is for us. It will take us years to acquire 5K on the clocks. Changes are done at the dealer (no, I don't do my own anymore) so Toyota filters and their 5W30 flavor of the month. I'll likely go with 5W20 next time since 'Yota gave the official bow to using it in the 3.5l V-6.
 
I usually go the three months or three thousand miles. But I Went ahead and switched from 5w30 to 10w30 tonight at 2,825 miles @ two and a half months.
 
Originally Posted By: panthermike
Usually 5K OCI's.

On the Corolla's, will do 7,500 oci's with Schaeffer's 7000.


I thought Corolla's are hard on oil..I figure it would be hard for the Corolla's engine to keep up with the jungle Miami heat and Arizona's very high temperatures. Then add in nasty traffic and the a/c being constantly on..Its got to be hard on that engine..

I believe the newer Corolla's you can get the Camry engine in it as an option..I think the 2.4 but not exactly sure..That I would think would be much better for the nasty summer heat.
 
Wife's 2005 Explorer 4.6 V-8 5,000 mile OCI @ Ford dealer with Motorcraft 5W-20 and FL820S oil filter, warranty purposes until 75,000 miles. Then 10,000 mile OCI with Mobil 1 0W-20 with Mobil 1 oil filter. Wife does mostly highway driving. My 2002 F-150 4.6 has gone 1 year or 5,000 miles. Now it will go 5,000 miles regardless of time. I "enhance" the oil with LC20 and the fuel with FP60. I do almost no local stop and go driving. The truck does mainly secondary roads with some traffic lights. The rest of the mileage is highway. Finally my 1996 Contour is our "vacation highway car". I'm running LC20 and FP60 "enhanced additives" with the Schaeffers's Supreme Blend 5w30, SL. I'm going for a 7,500 mile OCI with time be dam*ed since it's mostly higway driving.

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2000 Nissan Quest: 4-5000 miles on whatever dino 5w or 10w30 oil I have

2004 Toyota Camry: Used to be synthetic every 5000 miles when it was first bought. Lately it's been getting dino every 5000 miles. I have dino for one more oil change and then I can start using the synthetic. Will try to go 7500 miles so I can do go back to two oil changes every year.

2002 Maxima: haven't decided. I'm still on the clean phase of Auto-Rx. I should have the minimum 2500 miles done in a few hundred miles but I am trying to run the oil to 5000 miles. After the rinse I have several gallons of Rotella-T 5w-40. I will run it between 5000-7500 miles. I figure that if I change it every 5000 miles that it will last me 35000 miles and if I go 7500 miles I have 52000 miles worth of oil.
 
05 Vibe & 06 G6 - Every 6 months, regardless of mileage, using own blend of 3qts Chevron Supreme & 1qt Pennzoil Premium, QS Q-Torque or M1; Filters are OEM Toyota & Bosch.

98 Ranger - Every year, regardless of mileage, Mobil 7500; Bosch Filter.

Note: Thanks to all those great oil deals of the past, an oil change w/these products averages about $6 (including the filter).
 
2x a year on both.

Civic gets PP 5w30 from Nov-April, YB/Maxlife HM 5w30 from May-Oct.

4Runner will get Peak oil next month.
 
Originally Posted By: LT4 Vette
For both our Hondas

7K, 7K and 6K miles, I keep the oil filter on for the entire 20K miles.


Why on earth would you keep the same filters on for 20K miles..If I did that I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
 
I do it around 5000 miles for a conventional/syn-blend OCI or once a year, whichever comes first. For synthetic, it will depend on the brand and type, but basically 5000-10,000 miles or the same annual deadline...
 
Originally Posted By: CROWNVIC4LIFE
Originally Posted By: LT4 Vette
For both our Hondas

7K, 7K and 6K miles, I keep the oil filter on for the entire 20K miles.


Why on earth would you keep the same filters on for 20K miles..If I did that I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.


I do and I'm thinking of running 30K on them because they are holding up extremely well when I cut them open. EAO's are tough!
 
10k or 5 years whichever comes first, except on the Honda Insight which gets free 3500 mile OCs at the dealer.

am thinking seriously about bumping this out to 15k on the others.

M1 0w40 on the tundra and FX45, M1 0w20 on the miata. M1 filters on everything except the insight
 
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3k miles on anything I drive using dino.
5k miles on anything I drive using synthetic.

Reading some of these replies makes me nervous about buying a used car!
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Originally Posted By: lexus114
Originally Posted By: The Critic
I like to ask this every so often as our service intervals tend to vary depending on the season or the oil that we are using.

Right now, mine is every 7500 miles with 5W30 or 10W30 Formula Shell conventional oil on the Toyota van and the Saturn.

What's yours?


What year is your Toyota van?? Better watch out for sludging.

It's a 92. The engine is the 2TZ-FE. No sludge problems.
 
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