If you don't prime your oil filters..........

There was two brothers that bought new chevy trucks....
one changed 4k the other did the manufacture recom at 10K.....

The 4K one is still running fine after 100k.....
the other one not so much......it was using so much oil he got rid of it at 93K.....

My cousin did same with her brandnew cutless....12k oil changes....
engine blew at 67K........

Reason you got 340k is nothin you did.....its toyota quality.....
any other....yeah......

 

at, not got

 

No one is ever going to pass by buying a vehicle because the oil was changed too much. While 3K changes are a little excessive with modern oils and better filters, it won’t hurt anything. I can’t bring myself to go 10K between changes because logic dictates that less dirty oil is always better for longer engine life. Dirt in oil also includes acids from combustion that don’t get filtered.

 

oh, a youtube video, now I'm convinced......... scam

 

If cleaner oil is always better, shouldn’t we be changing oil every 1500 miles instead of 3000?

 

hell, every 500!

 

That dude has infinitely more reputation than your little curmudgeon hard-headed self lol

 

yea, sure. (I did not watch it, scam)

340,000 happy miles

 

If you constant leaks you have to keep topping off you always have fresh oil

 

Yeah actually I do mine about every 1.5k......because I'm breaking in a new engine...

For the 1st 500mi I used non-detergent break-in oils (valoline conv racing oil) ........at that point everything in head horizonal had a nice thick coating of slime...
maybe 1/32 in thick.....kinda spooky....but that was what the high zinc VR1 was suppose to do.......

So been changing oil just after 1K ~ 1.5K point....syn blend valoline.....
made me a big believer that the oil is carrying a big load.....of crap in it....

Long term I'll switch to mobile one for suv's/trucks.....

 

Coming from a Prius owner who lives in Oregon. Lmfao

 

My mom bought a brandnew 2004 prius....did the 5~6K oil changes....
at 130K it was using 1qt every 1K.....
most I've ever seen in the pre- VVT toy engines.....

Subaru boxer engines dont like dirty oil either....
subaru is blaming their customers poor maint habits for their engine failures....

 

Claiming our own anecdotal experience is at all relevant to oil change intervals…did I accidentally click on the third gen forum?


xxx miles and no PrObLeMs!!!!

 

I don’t see how it could be a scam, the guy drew on a whiteboard with markers. That’s pretty compelling stuff.

 

why?

 

.......a Prius owner who has a 03 Tacoma with 340,000 miles and is still going strong. I have a car for car things and a truck or truck things (all long ago paid for). Enjoy your laughs!

 

well, this is Nissan/Toyota truck number 3 for me, all when happily over 300K with no problems on Dino oil so ..........

 

So convincing.

 

Okay? And I just replaced a Toyota motor 18 months ago with only 180k despite 3k Dino oil changes.

Point being that there is no validity to anecdotal evidence like that.