Originally Posted by Wolf359
Originally Posted by JohnG
Mercedes (2018) specifies every 20,000 miles. Of course they also specify 10,000 mile oil changes, so what do they know?
Rolls Royce USED to specify every 100,000 miles, but that was probably before lawyers got involved.
I've gone 10k on oil changes with my MB. It takes 8.5 quarts of synthetic oil so there's plenty of oil in there and it doesn't burn any. It used to be 13k but I guess most Americans couldn't stand that long a time period so they reduced it to 10k. They had transmission fluid changes at 39k which would be 3 oil changes.
Yes, I know. I've gone 12,000 miles on a 2004 Chevy truck using the OLM, got a used oil analysis and posted it here. It was fine. Most on this forum would screech in horror of the thought!
I change my MB oil each year, regardless of mileage, but I don't drive that much anymore, so it ends up being Interestingly, this agrees with the MB OLM as well. When I specified 229.6 oil for my car, it told me "next oil change due in 365 days"!
OH, the horrors!
Other fluids, including brake fluid will be replaced according to the MB maintenance schedule.