New truck, first scheduled oil change at 10,000... really?

Yes. That has been the ploy from the start. My Tacoma is not a taxi cab, nor is it an Uber, I don’t sit idling for hours, and I don’t drive at 2 miles per hour for days at a time. Turns out 10K is a safe and prudent number for my uses.

 

And a majority of other drivers. Anytime someone has to go to the far ends of the bell curve to make their point, it's a shitty point.

 

Holy smokes....15 pages.

 

Oh its got a lot of life left

 

That's what the lab says

 

You’ve won the internet two days in a row. Nice!!!

 

Hey Hammer, can you swing by my place in a 1/2 hour? I need to get to the airport for 10:00. If you could pick up some Chinese takeaway and a case of beer for my old lady, that would also be appreciated. Do you take VISA?

 

To be fair, the thread did turn into a Wikipedia trustworthiness debate for like 5 of those pages.....

 

Nah, I only drive two miles

Sorry

 

Yours should. You drive on dusty roads, we all do.
Manual states 5k miles for dusty roads.

And engines are tested in vacuum, because Wikipedia says so.

/thread

 

I went 15k mi without a change, truck is still alive

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVzaoAq0gCU

 

5k for primarily driving on dusty roads. Keyword being primarily.

 

So change it at least every 10k, but no need to change it more than every 5k.


Did I make that too simple?

 

My mother in law just asked me yesterday if her oil needed changing. She says it’s been 5 years and 25 000 km.

After choking on my coffee I took a look. The oil is dark and half a litre low but the car is running just fine.

 

But I use K&N?

 

If you drive on ice roads or inside 51% of the time, your right. If your like 99.99999999999% of the rest of us, you drive on dusty roads. The manual says primarily, but doesn't define dusty. Unless your in a clean room (and even then), there's dust.
So manual says, literally, change every 5k.

Oh God. Your good on extended oil changes then! Just start changing your MAF every time you have to put in more DEF.

 

The manual says change every 10k,but change it every 5k under special circumstances..... Literally

 

One of them is literally driving primarily on dusty roads. Which you do. Which I do. Which 99.999999999% of people do.

So the manual literally tells us all to change every 5k miles.