New Taco - First Oil Change?

No need to question what a large team of engineers, who themselves designed the engine, tell you. Just go with what manual says and move on.

 

So, you torque your u-bolts to 37 foot-pounds? It’s straight from those same engineers, so it must be fact.

 

It's in my maintenance schedule

 

This scares me

 

interesting , in Canada, just bought a new 4x4 Tacoma - Toyota manual recommends synthetic change every 8000 km, for life of the vehicle

 

Did my 1st oil change @the local Toyota dealer at 10k miles.

 

First oil change at 1000 miles, second oil change at 5000 miles. Then every 5000 after that.
To each their own.

 

Did my own first oil change at 2200mi,

attached oil report.

Cheers and merrry Christmas!

 

I bought my 2020 taco in August. I recently changed the oil, at almost 5K. They offered 2 years free maintenance but I prefer to do the maintenance myself.

 

On my ranger then my wrangle and now my Sr5. First at 500 then 5k and every 5k after. I do my own. Too many stores of jk’s with broken filter housings.

 

Pay $30 for a Blackstone analysis and prove to yourself that there is nothing wrong with a 10k oil change interval. As another poster mentioned, most people aren’t going to keep their truck long enough to benefit from their maintenance expenses either.

I have 70k miles from new in Jan 2017, I did a couple of 5k changes before moving on to 10k after realizing the oil was still super clean looking at 5k. Did a Blackstone check at 60k and came back above expectations so 10k it is.

Buy the metal filter housing as others have suggested, and I’ve always run Mobile 1 but that’s because Costco puts it on sale often enough that it only costs me about $30-$35 to change my own oil including filter cost (6 pack off Amazon for OEM Toyota).

 

If anyone is looking for a top of the line group V base stock synthetic, Walmart has PUP 0W20 5qt for $24.87, buy 2+ get free shipping.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pennzoil...3MkMR_jjHDNOekoWgA-cRUSWkAwj-r1RoC-ZYQAvD_BwE

 

https://youtu.be/fN7AnwntdVE

 

I got mine at the end of July 2020. I'm just over 4000 miles finally after the Christmas holiday and a little winter trip to the beach.
Soon time for my 5000 mile service and oil change. I also would like to do my oil changes and usually did on previous vehicles. I still plan on using the free toyota care services but after that I'll be doing all that I'm able to myself and having an independent mechanic do the rest that I'm not able to do in the driveway.

I do have all the MotiveX tool except to funnel, I figured any $.50 one would work as it did before.

What do you all think about getting the metal filter cartridge to have on hand in case of issue with the plastic one??

 

Absolute yes.

People have had issues with the plastic cracking and the fins breaking off making it hard to remove.

 

Ok it will be done. Not that im going to use it but have it in case. I'm sure it could be handy to have

 

As long as the kids at the Dealership don't overtorque the crap out of the canister it will be fine

 

This time coming up will be the first since it was built. Hopefully it won't be too tight. After 10,000 when the dealership does it is when I expect there could be a problem.

 

As far as i was told by the dealer they are very strict for their 10k mile oil change...its either 10k miles or a year. If done earlier they won't even replace the filter till 10k miles.

 

Not surprised. That's why you do it yourself if you want a full oil change.