10000 mile oil change?

dem engineers are slackin

 

Now play nice... hammer the post, never the poster, unless you don't like it here.

 

I'm sorry, seriously

 

It's all good! I enjoy the debate.

 

I never knew this, interesting Thanks.

 

Oil companies also, love 3k oil changes... All my Subaru manuals say 7500 miles unless of course there are a lot of dusty road miles, hot weather, towing or short trip miles. I get the fact that oil is better than 40 plus years ago although, I do question the reasoning that it seems we have gone from 10-30 to 5-30 and now 0-20w in a span of ~10 years.

 

I have run Supertech in all my engines for well over twenty years without any problems, don't equate inexpensive with cheap. In the northeast U.S. I'll bet 95% of cars are taken off the road because of rust and not engine failure.

 

I'm at 201,000. Been replacing Mobil 1 synthetic every 10K since new. I MIGHT be 1/2 qt low at 10K when I change the oil. I do the same with the other 2 vehicles in the driveway and have close to 1/2 million miles combined on all of them. With conventional oil I'd still change at 5K.

This guy has been changing his oil at 8K-10K since 2008. He has over 1.2 million miles on his truck. He got 800K out of the original engine which he replaced with a scrapyard engine with 100K. He has an additional 400K on the 2nd engine. If 10K oil changes did that for him, I'm not worried about it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=1.2...0j69i57j0l4.9936j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

Not all people are the same. Capt. Burger flipper is a people too. Both have their specialties. I trust engineers with engineering things they specialize in. I prefer to side with Toyota engineers that Toyota has invested in and trusts over rando bro-sci junk. They are, technically, just people. Otherwise I could just swap in said burger flipper with your EMT in the event of a rollover.

 

This guy lol. Nobody listen to this kook.


Top end is pretty important, and has changed. News flash- oil goes in there too.

 

Yep I’ve been running it in my vehicles for the past 10 years or so. Great stuff. The diff oils are also quality and perfect for 30k intervals. Probably used the stuff for about 300k miles now between 2 Tacomas and a couple other vehicles.

 

Or it doesnt, then it starts smoking on inclines. Damn engineers...

 

CAFE standards

 

For anyone bitching about an OEM and how dumb thier engineers are: go build a car, put a warranty on it, sell it. Come back here and tell us how well you did.

 

Personally, I don't care what anybody says including the manufacturer. I change my oil every 5000 miles and that's that. I can afford it and I don't care about wasting money or resources it's what I want. Everybody is entitled to follow their heart lol.

 

Why is it always the oil?

Why doesn't anyone ask about changing the plugs every 10k, or flushing the radiator once a year, or the rear diff quarterly?

If you're gonna doubt the manual, why not go all out!?

 

oil is so cheap nowadays, that 5k intervals are plenty fine. If you do it yourself, it’s a good opportunity to stick to the rest of the maintenance schedule and take care of other things too. My DIY oil changes on the Tacoma cost me $27 (including filter) and half an hours time tops. You’re hardly wasting money or resources by doing it a little early. Long term and years down the road, my guess is a few hundred dollars saved.

 

Because there is no website called “Bob is the spark plug guy”

The amount of man-hours spent on a website about oil is absurd. As opposed to an entire truck, like this one.

 

Just wait till you find the Rule 34 version.

 

I’d put in some man hours in that.