You follow the oil life?
08-08-2013, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by unijabnx2000
Do you change it when it tells you to, or do you do it every Xxxx miles?
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if that makes any sense.
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08-08-2013, 05:51 PM
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To start off with I changed it when I got to 45-50%...
To start off with I'd go 10-12k miles and I still changed it by 45%. That was crazy IMO
Then slowly started changing it sooner.
Now that its passed 100k, I change it at 60%.
As much as I want to trust the meter... Going that long on the oil seems crazy to me.
To start off with I'd go 10-12k miles and I still changed it by 45%. That was crazy IMO
Then slowly started changing it sooner.
Now that its passed 100k, I change it at 60%.
As much as I want to trust the meter... Going that long on the oil seems crazy to me.
08-09-2013, 06:48 AM
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To start off with I changed it when I got to 45-50%...
To start off with I'd go 10-12k miles and I still changed it by 45%. That was crazy IMO
Then slowly started changing it sooner.
Now that its passed 100k, I change it at 60%.
As much as I want to trust the meter... Going that long on the oil seems crazy to me.
To start off with I'd go 10-12k miles and I still changed it by 45%. That was crazy IMO
Then slowly started changing it sooner.
Now that its passed 100k, I change it at 60%.
As much as I want to trust the meter... Going that long on the oil seems crazy to me.
08-18-2013, 12:45 PM
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I use full synthetic and change around 30-40%. Car runs fine, top end of the engine looks fine with the valve cover off, so I have no need to change any sooner. 80,000 miles.
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09-08-2013, 10:15 AM
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it's $25 for 5 qts of mobil one at walmart. and I get oil filters for free at work. I've seen what happens to these engines when people wait until the oil percentage is down to 0% every time. GM even had a recall on a ton of vehicles to shorten the time the monitor counts down because of this.
$25 every 8 weeks is no big deal to prevent sludge and my VVT actuators and solenoids from sticking, and timing chain stretch.
$25 every 8 weeks is no big deal to prevent sludge and my VVT actuators and solenoids from sticking, and timing chain stretch.
09-08-2013, 11:14 AM
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it's $25 for 5 qts of mobil one at walmart. and I get oil filters for free at work. I've seen what happens to these engines when people wait until the oil percentage is down to 0% every time. GM even had a recall on a ton of vehicles to shorten the time the monitor counts down because of this.
$25 every 8 weeks is no big deal to prevent sludge and my VVT actuators and solenoids from sticking, and timing chain stretch.
$25 every 8 weeks is no big deal to prevent sludge and my VVT actuators and solenoids from sticking, and timing chain stretch.
09-11-2013, 09:59 PM
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Either my indicator is off cuz i put on 4-5k kms a month. And my meter goes down to like 75% by that time.. If that
Or its based off time AND kms.
Every 5000 kms
I drive it hard, i dont wonna pay lots for avoidable problems.
Or its based off time AND kms.
Every 5000 kms
I drive it hard, i dont wonna pay lots for avoidable problems.
09-11-2013, 10:34 PM
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used to change it when it got in the 60% range. By that point it was around the 4 month mark. I did not put typical miles like most on mine which if I did use mileage it was probably 2k-2k5 miles. With stop and go traffic along with fun driving I did not want to push it.
09-11-2013, 10:40 PM
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it's $25 for 5 qts of mobil one at walmart. and I get oil filters for free at work. I've seen what happens to these engines when people wait until the oil percentage is down to 0% every time. GM even had a recall on a ton of vehicles to shorten the time the monitor counts down because of this.
$25 every 8 weeks is no big deal to prevent sludge and my VVT actuators and solenoids from sticking, and timing chain stretch.
$25 every 8 weeks is no big deal to prevent sludge and my VVT actuators and solenoids from sticking, and timing chain stretch.
