Originally Posted by blownaltered
I can't agree more. It drives me nuts watching these guys here changing their oil every 10k miles. It doesn't matter what the oil company says that oil can do, changing your oil every 3k to 5k will save you 5k on a new motor. For the guys not changing your oil here is some math for you. If you put 100k on the motor and change your oil every 10k, you will change the oil 10 times. Lets say a 100 bucks a pop so that is a $1000. Every 5k would be 20 times so that would be $2000. So over 6 years you would have spent an extra $1000. Now you decided to save that $1000 over 6 years so now you get to spend $5000 now, makes sense to me.
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Exactly, doesnt make sense if you plan to keep the car a long time. I havent put 100k on one car in my life... my 86 has about 65k or so on it from when I bought it, and its going on it's 6th engine. The vert we bought new, but it only has 105k on it and its on its second engine, and I didnt drive it but maybe 1/3 those miles from new...
For the VWs they are slow and dont use any oil. The dealer makes me wait 10k to change the oil for free, so I wait... I dont care if it blows up, its under warranty and its VW's fault if it booms up making me wait for oil changes. I got 11,300 out of my last oil change, oil light never came on.