Break in Period and Oil Changes?

With my company lease Land Cruiser/LX570/lx470 that I have had every 3 years since 1999, I don't even change the oil.

3 years, 36 miles. 0 maintenance. return it. Not my problem. I just keep the oil level checked. You should see how black it is at the end of lease turn in

Then they turn it around, and sell it 1 owner, CPO mint

 

This is exactly why i hate used cars. You never know if they had proper care. Last thing i want is to buy a car and have total engine failure from poor maintenance.

 

Bingo. When I buy used, I expect to see all maintenance records from 1 owner car. I NEVER buy a lease return car.

 

Mine actually has

$59 0w20 oil Toyota/ exxon mobil Case of 6 Quarts Full Synthetic TGMO SN 0W-20 Oil

0w20 oil... whatever the hell that is! I never heard of that before...

 

Your oil is 5w20?? Mine is 0w20

 

I am actually surprised that these trucks come with synthetic oil from the get go, mineral based is usually the oil best suited for initial break in of at least 1000 miles... but it's their call since they made the damn thing.

 

my bad it is 0w20 mistyped, edited my post.

 

Old wives tale. Synthetic is fine for breaking in.

 

Yea, I remember when rebuilding an engine they recommended Non-detergent oil for first 500 miles.

 

There was a day when it was preferred. But changes in oil formulations and advances in metallurgy and machining the need for bed-in the metal in decomposed dinosaurs has passed...

 

Yup, tons of cars these days come from factory with synthetic.

 

WTF are you stalking me tonight???!!?

 

You are part of my "GIMPOMATIC is for losers" 6MT crew

 

The tolerances of old engines was not what it is today, therefore rings could not properly mate with the piston walls, tolerances are much closer these days so it may not apply by and large, but it's not a wives tale. Breaking in an older engine on synthetic oil will cause blow by and loss of engine compression, thus loss in power and reduced longevity. Like to see you break in a 1967 Camaro on Full Synthetic from the factory...back in 1967 of course!

 

But yeah you are right about that in this day and age

 

They hate us because they ainu... ehhhh. I don't think they even know we exist actually.

 

I know

We are more invisible than Hillary Clinton these days

 

Yep, did the same here albeit it was more like 1600mi for the first change simply due to life getting in the way. Oil & filter from my local dealership. Spent the $15 at Amazon for the filter wrench. Already had all the other paraphernalia.

It'd sure be easy for the unwary to drain the transmission instead of the engine oil.

I'll let Toyota do the 10k and 20k changes. Beyond that we'll see.

A 10k interval is fine on a modern motor with modern synthetic oils. While 3k-5k intervals made sense thirty five years ago, times and technology have changed and that's overkill for all but the most extreme driving conditions. Won't hurt anything but your wallet to change oil excessively often though, so if it makes you happy go for it.

 

Why are you proud of this?

 

I missed that post. What an asshole thing to do to the next owner.