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do you change your oil every three months or 3,000 miles just because that little sticker on your windshield says so,

tell us what you do.


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I change mine about every 5k... but I run full synth. Usually my tell tail is I get sick of seeing the "change oil now" message on my trucks info center. It's set to go off every 3k or so.

Every 5K in the Honda. Every 3K in the Tahoe and Sonoma.

for the most part I wait till my OLS (oil life system) lets me know, at the same time keeping an eye on it.
I get around 4 thousand miles and 5 months or so, when my oil life system goes off.

I run full synthetic, and go 6-7500 miles on a change.

Now that I use synthetic, I use the oil life monitor and change it when it gets around 20%. Previously, I used the 3 month/3k miles.

I've always changed my oil at 5000 KM (3000 miles). However, I think that figure is a left over from the days when gas had lead in it. The oil would scavenge a lot of lead and it would sludge up quickly.

I've recently started using higher end synthetic oil and changing half as often, but I do replace the filter at 5000 km just because it makes me feel better.

full synthetic w/ 1 qt lucas. i do pretty much the same thing as archon

My suggestion is to go by the oil life indicator if you have it and get a used oil analysis done to verify it.

I change the oil in the Jetta every 5000mi and use high end synthetic. The VW ABA 2.0l is notoriously hard on oil.

every 3k. my shop orders it by the drum so its pointless not to change it regularly

Archon wrote:Now that I use synthetic, I use the oil life monitor and change it when it gets around 20%. Previously, I used the 3 month/3k miles.

ditto

On the 2k I go by the monitor, on the 89 usually 3 months because it doesn't see much use, the burb every 3k because it is driven a lot and already has over 200k on it.

bonnevilles gtx 3,000 miles w/ ac delco filter
gmc full synthetic 3,000 miles w/ ac delco filter
regal every ten times out gtx w/ k&N filter

to often, lol, i change mine every 1500

every 7,500 miles.

When my oil life monitor tells me too.. which is like 7500-10,000 miles.

full synthetic mobil 1 with a mobil 1 filter.

i go 3 months, since the car is not driven much

BMW every 4500miles and because of the warranty I have on it it has to be done by a Shop.

Jeep 4-5k

Bonneville- Umm when it was DD every 3 k. Now like every year =o

brandonSSEi wrote:to often, lol, i change mine every 1500

Really? why?

every 25,000 miles or 12 months, whichever comes first.