The old 5k or 10k oil change debate

Always 5000 miles! I took mine in for the first service and I was shocked they didn’t change the oil so I did. It was dirty. I don’t know about changing the way that I’ve always done my oil changes. I think they stretch out the intervals so the truck will wear out faster. My 2002 Tacoma had it’s oil changed every 5000 and I had it for 207000 miles, I’m sure it’s still going.

 

That's my I just compromise and do 7500 oil changes on my Taco and my wife's Cx5. Even use the same oil which came OEM in the Mazda with the moly but I use the Liquimoly Molygen 0-20W now on both.

 

I'm for 5K.

 

Synthetic every 5K w/factory oil filter

 

I'm not sure of why there is so much controversy. If you want to change every 5,000, it's your money. Personally, I always use full synthetic and change right around 10,000. The bigger issue is, I don't trust too many garages to do it right so I do it myself. I have a 2005 Ford Five hundred with 170,000 miles, have always changed it every 10 with full synthetic. Still going strong.

 

I have a '10 Sport with +-210k mi. It gets a mix of light and medium duty. I have done 10k-15k oil changes using group 4 oils since new, (excepting the first 2 @ 1k & 5k). No leaks. Burns about half a quart between changes. Did the same with other Toyotas, Fords and a Nissan. No problems with any of them. I usually change the filter @ 4k-6k.

 

To the 5K guys. Why 5K? Why not 2.5K? Or even better 1K? I mean just pull any number out of yer ass.

 

Living in the northeast with a 4.7 tundra for 19 years, i only used mobil1 5w-30. I changed the oil once a year about every 15k miles of mostly highway and some city driving. That truck ran perfect till the time i sold it in 2020. Imo, 5k miles every 6 months is over the top...should be 1 year, or 10k miles or whatever comes first. Been doing the same with my 3.5 tacoma, so far i see no issues. If you want to change your oil every 5k miles every 6 months or sooner, imo, your just wasting money. I doubt these engines will last any longer.

 

Please refrain from the introduction of actual facts relating to this oft maligned topic by the search deficient and marketing hype susceptible types.

 

just so everyone knows. there are a number of factors that determine how a manufacturer decides their service interval. the most important, is the yearly cost of of ownership, this is released by the manufacturer. and "consumer" take it into account when buying a vehicle. manufactures will try to stay as low as possible with this one and is based on the first 5 years of the vehicle ( normal for suspected vehicle life). they make the engineers work the numbers to keep it as low as possible while making the vehicle last the warranty period they also have normal and sever schedule to cover their asses. but they put the 10k oil change and "non serviceable Transmission fluids" in the normal category so the Number is lower but if you are driving in the morning to work with traffic jams and stoplights will make any vehicle go to severe maintenance schedule. which usually doubles the number.

at the end of the day you can follow whatever you want. vehicle will last at least till the warranty goes out and some more ( unless you are a nissan with a CVT) but if you want to go way pass the manufacturers warranty period use severe condition intervals.

i did sever in my Hyundai so i did oil changes every 3750 miles i was surprise to know that the tacoma es 5000 for the severe and 10000 for the normal. that means less oil changes for me to do.

 

I change my oil when the service interval warning pops up on the screen.

 

Clearly no one here owns a German car.

 

Myself?
1. every 5k. oil changes are relatively cheap and will only prolonged the life and reliability of your engine
and
2. I have the exact same world map mouse pad lol

 

I'm confused. My owner's manual calls for 10,000. However, when I got to about 4,800 my display kept giving me the display to service truck soon. It would go away after a few seconds. When I hit 5,000 the service truck soon message wouldn't go off. I also had my dealership calling me telling me to bring it in for service - I have 2 years or 25,000 miles service for free. I took it in and the dealership told me to service it every 5,000.

10,000 miles seems too long to me. I'm sticking at 5,000. But why does toyota say 10,000? (BTW, my truck is my daily driver and it rarely leaves the pavement unless you call my long gravel driveway "off-roading".)

 

Have you read their Toyota care? The 5k service is just a tire rotation, fluid check and floor mat alignment. You can manually set the maintenance reminder as well

 

I only change the oil when the odo reads in sequential order

 

Just my opinion, but some seem to know more than the engineers that designed these engine's, or are still going back to the 60's-80's when every 3-5k miles was the norm. Someone should tell them these engines now run cleaner, and the synthetics we have now have additive packages far more advanced...they just down't break down at the rate dino oils of the past did.

 

I should have specified 5.7/4.6

The 4.7 could run on corn syrup and out live us all.

 

May not be an engineering issue, but a qc one.

 

Ya the synthetics today are pretty awesome. A lot of old school engines that ran Dino 10w-30 didn’t necessarily run that because it was the best but what was readily available. Most of the synthetics of today either didn’t exist or were extremely expensive.