Originally Posted by emiller

Its not just a mileage counter. It calculates based on your driving conditions.

Originally Posted by rchiwawa

when i seakfoamed, i was about to haul the car into the dealership and ask wth. i had to seafoam 4 times in a row to stop the car from kicking out blue smoke for miles on end. my assumption is that the bluish output is the seafoam doing it's thing and that initial heavy grey cloud if just the seafoam being burned off. i did it several more times after the initial doses for good measure (the power loss was remedied fully after the second pass in my situation) and would even do back to back cleanings for the first couple of times but it has proven unnecessary as no blue smoke was produced, ever, on the second pass. anymore, it seems like i do it right around a tire rotation and somewhere in the middle. what brings me to seamfoamin' is unusually rough cold idle and throttle response before the cat is warmed and it's o2 sensor are being used by the ecm (assumed because if i wait for the valve phasing to zero on cold start, no problems with throttle response even if it needs a cleaning but if it needs one and i don't wait positive feedback power attenuation.... that up and down up and down cycling of engine and car speed... is demonstrably worse)

seafoaming is my favorite kind of maintenance (easy, actually does something for the butt dyno, and fun to have a reason to romp on it mercilessly) but i can't wait for Powell RS to start offering their kit for valve gunking, until then and 100k, i am content with mosquito fogging my neighborhood. every 3,000 miles or so.

Originally Posted by rchiwawa

i know my interval might seem high to most but i pull 110 miles/day, 90 being all highway. the one thing i know will make the olm tick off the hundreths faster than anything else is heat cycling the oil. if my car wasn't such a highway queen, virtually never exposed to dirt roads or dust conditions, i might be a little less apt to obey it's readout, i just don't think it's monitoring dirt intake. to that end it's why i haven't really responded to the scoffers at my interval who state theirs. i am assuming we are are big boys and girls here and will adjust our frequency according to use and exposure: posted commentary with no consideration given to anything but the mileage not withstanding, of course.

Originally Posted by Cobalt_Nation08

I change my oil every 5k. I just changed my oil this weekend, and the OLM read 3%