Never go 10,000 miles on Oil change! It will start burning oil!

And Bigfoot.

 

Ahhh sheeple.... Those Blackstone people are in cahoots with Toyota engineering dept to make you buy new tacomas sooner. "Proven fact".

 

LOL... Nothing is "cheap" insurance if it is totally unnecessary.

Look around. How many vehicles do you see on the road? How many of them break due to oiling issues? Not a lot. Not many at all. There are more vehicles that end up in the junkyard due to being worked on continuously than from neglect.

But if it gives you comfort, the illusion of care and expense being useful, go for it. But don't tell me it's cheap insurance.

 

Not only are we creatures of habit, but it's hard to break old habits you learned as a youngster from your elders. Took me awhile to see there wasn't any difference worth writing home about in the quality of oil I had tested at 15k miles with synthetic vs 7.5k miles the manual recommended with dino oils for my 4.7 tundra. I never had any engine issue's owning that truck while pilling on nearly 300k miles on it. I guess some just like changing oil, far be it from me to spoil their fun. As far as 10k being good, or bad for these engines, idk either, only my experience with my 4.7, it was fine. I go by what the manual recommends, like our prius. Been doing 10k mile oil changes recommended since 2012 with 0w20. With well over 100k now it still runs the same as new. I can't foresee any problems as the tech that has changed it claims he has Prius's with over 250k with the same oil change intervals still running fine.

 

I used to work on a lot of those motors when I was in college; I found the motors which used "Pennsylvania Crude" based oil (you know, Pennzoil, Quaker State, Wolfs Head...), the engine would start burning oil due to the oil rings (and pretty much everything else in the engine) becoming sludged up with the paraffin wax which came from that type of oil, however, when I worked on an engine which had been fed a steady diet of mineral based oil (Valvoline and Havoline were the two most common), those engines ran hundreds of thousands of miles with no oil burning issues.

 

For Pete's sake...

 

Agree, I grew up in N.W. Pa. (the birth place of oil) and for years was fed a steady diet of Pa. crude as being the best, because of the high content of paraffin... sludge, nothing like it in the world !

 

I have a '10 Sport I bought new. Has 186,000 mi. now. Been doing oil changes once a year since new with Amsoil or Mobile 1EP. Mileage has varied from +-16,000 the first 10 years to +- 5,000 since. It has always used about a half a quart at the 6 month mark when I change the filter.

I'm doing 5,000 on the '22.

 

wait....we get free filters? how?

 

I'm right there with you honestly. Don't really care to throw money at something if its not needed. Truck doesn't burn or leak oil, rarely needs an air filter, only takes 3-4 pumps to purge new grease every time I lube driveline, shifts perfect, doesn't run hot, cranks every time, and stops when I want it to. I could spend thousands paying someone else to do "unneeded" things. When in reality, if you just take some time to truly look things over every now and then, it has pretty good chances to outlast you. What hurts the most is realizing you have more of a chance wrecking that perfectly maintained truck than you do having some costly catastrophic failure from maintenance negligence.

Oil - 10k
Air filters - as needed, not very often honestly
Tires - 10k
Driveline - 20-30k
Trans - never
Coolant - never
Diffs/transfer - 60k
Spark plugs - 100k
PS/BF - never, unless replacing lines
MAF - never
Rear drums - 200-250k
Front pads/rotors - 90-100k

To top it off, this is gonna make someone on the internet really mad:
detail/vacuum - 6 months-yearly
wash - 6 months-yearly

 

I use to run those same dino oils in my cars, and trucks back in the 70's, and 80's...I saw the same results. Switched to castrol motor oil, and never had another similar issue.

 

Almost word for word I did on my gen1 tundra that gave me great service for 19 years. Now its someones else's truck.

 

Yeah, I forgot to list Castrol in my "good oil list". Sorry, my bad.

 

Chupacabra

 

I have trouble with your math.

I’m not buying your used vehicle when there are better maintained others.

 

Oil change?

 

I feel like everyone is just doing a copy/paste of their responses from other oil change threads.

 

Of course, cause there are 100's of them already. just like what is the biggest tire I can use/ run without rubbing

 

I change my oil every 50 thousand

 

But if you change it at 9,999 miles you'll be fine