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How often should you change oil?
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>>26532052 (OP)
Step one:
>open your shop or owner's manual.
Step two:
>navigate to the appropriate section and check the manufacturer recommendations for hours/days per oil change.
Step three:
>adhere to the schedule therein.
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>>26532094
>hours/days
miles/days*
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>>26532094
>change oil at 10,000 miles per manuf's rec
>manuf saves $$$ is hazmat generation fees
>warranty expires
>engine fails shortly thereafter
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5000 km
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>>26532117
Unsubstantiated FUD. Manual oil change recommendations work just fine. Auto manufacturers aren't going to adhere to some hairbrained conspiracy that can be easily defeated by slashing 1000 miles off of the recommendations.
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>>26532052 (OP)
every 3-4k mi, any more and my engines get noticeably ticky
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>>26532126
Manufs pay a fee for each vehicle sold based upon the expected lifetime amount of hazmat generated by service and maintenance.
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>>26532139
Source?
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>>26532052 (OP)
>How often should you change oil?
Change? You mean add, which is whenever it's low or the dipstick is dry or when I remember to, makes no different for a 700+ thousand km datsun diesel.
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>>26532052 (OP)
When it no longer tastes good.
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>>26532052 (OP)
All depends on the vehicle and what you are using. I tend to shoot for 5k-10k miles and under roughly 2 years.
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>>26532152
>700+ thousand km
What is that in football fields?
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>>26532141
you have never owned a car, have you
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>>26532052 (OP)
Every 45 miles. The manual says 3000, but that's a lie.
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>>26532139
You know what else? Whatever that fee is is less than the reputation of selling cars with a bogus maintenance schedule that leads them to blow up.

The real problem is people never acknowledge there is an "aggressive" service interval for retards that:
-only drive short distances, esp in cold weather
-do shit tons of idling like going out at lunch and running their car for an hour in the parking lot
-go off road a lot
-drive down the road banging off the rev limiter

If you don't do those things the normal interval is fine. I'm not a retard so I can go the full recommended mileage and I've never had a problem. 99.9% of problems that get blamed on fluids is not due to fluids, your auto transmission didn't blow because of the lifetime fluid, it blew because you did a fucking standing burnout for 5 minutes.
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>>26532786
I own a classic and the manual-recommended oil changes work fine, now source me.
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5000 miles
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>>26532052 (OP)
Whatever the Blackstone Lab oil test says .
For my Corolla, it's 5,000 miles
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4000 or 5 months. I've always enjoyed changing my oil though, its easy on my truck and makes me feel cool.
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so apparently /o/ doesn't like anything shorter than the manufacturers recommended interval
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>>26532052 (OP)
I had 30k on my old cars oil before I sold it
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>>26534638
you sold the oil?
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>>26532052 (OP)
For conventional
Don't drive very much: 6 months max
Drive a lot: every 5000 miles
If it's a fancy boy car and/or uses synthetic, go by whatever the manual says. Regular 4 banger on conventional will do fine with the above schedule.
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If you have a car without oil pressure warning, then you might want to change it or at least look at it regularly, the oil pumps on new cars often fail without you noticing it and can destroy your engine.
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>>26532764
About half a million miles
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>>26534701
>car without oil pressure warning
that exists?
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7,000 miles. 10,000 is fine if you have an oil leak and have to top it off often.
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>>26534729
Most goycattlemobiles don't even have oil pressure gauges.
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>>26535262
This is an english website anon
speak it
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>>26535267
Which word has confused you? I think you could use a reading lesson.
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>>26535262
Yeah but they usually have lights for low oil pressure
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>>26532052 (OP)
After every drive
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>>26532052 (OP)
Once a year or every 3k miles. Whichever comes first.
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>>26537460
>every 3k miles
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Naturally aspirated engine. Every 5k miles.
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>>26532052 (OP)
Can i extend oil life by doing highway trips every week?
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>>26537499
In a way, yes.
Very short trips usually cause a lot of water condensation to collect in the oil, which can turn it milky and affect its lubricity. Going on the highway/longer drives heats up the oil enough for the water to evaporate from the oil. If you do this regularly your oil should stay water free, but it doesn't really extend the life of the oil itself.
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TWICE A WEEK SO I CAN GET AWAY FROM MY BITCH WIFE FOR A FEW HOURS LOL 
GOD BLESS
TOM
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>>26537607
could you also change my oil next time I do your wife?
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>>26537478
i remember seeing a pic of a car (i think it was a corolla) brought in for service by an old fart that was very adamant about changing the oil that had less than 1500 miles since the last service. The oil was still a fresh gold colour coming out of the pan...
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I got every 5k on Pennzoil platinum in my WRX
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>>26534729
Maybe he's driving some pre mass production horseless wagon
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>>26532052 (OP)
I have a 1.8tdci ford focus ad a daily and I change it after three years. car has almost 300.000km, no problem whatso ever. I also have two E36, a 320 vanos and a 325 also with vanos and both 1994 models and I change it every other summer, but these are not daily cars I use them to go to Zolder, nurburgring or Spa and the occasional car meeting. . . I believe in my own assesment of engine use and maintenance when I see it fit.
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>>26532764
>not measuring it dicks end to end
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>>26532052 (OP)
I would let her suck out my semen, if you know what I mean ;^>
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>>26532094
>own turbo BMW
>follow manufacturer's oil change schedule
>turbo bearings fail
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>>26533516
I sat in my shitbox 2005 Camry V6 with 256k miles for 10 hours a day with the AC on for the past five years no problems sucks to be you KEK
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>>26532052 (OP)
I recommend using a different weight every time.
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>>26532052 (OP)
Everyday.
It's supposed to be a daily maintenance item. 
Didn't you learn this from your dad?
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>>26537607
BASED AND HOSSPILLED
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>>26532052 (OP)
When it looks dirty.
Fuck these gay ass armchair answers.
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>>26532117
This, you can get away with 10K oil changes on a reliable jap motor for hundreds of thousands of miles, but expect mad oil burning, the guys who change there's at 3K won't have oil consumption, the car shouldn't have oil consumption, it isn't a race engine.
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>>26532052 (OP)
I change mine every 6000km or 3700 miles