2nd. oil change

What a battle....oil companies say to change the oil every night after work....auto maker says run it nearly forever. (p.s. I am in the oil & gas biz;)

The computer keeps track of your driving conditions and predicts wear and tear on your oil. While this is a good concept, the accuracy is difficult to predict.

I've started testing the oil from my vehicles at

At least go to that site and some of the others and read about oil and filter life and contaminates...then ....you make the call.

skimmer

You can get buy with not changing oil much when new but you will pay for it later as the years and miles add up. After 3 to 5000 miles conventional oil has lost most of its abilty to neutralize acids in engine byproducts and most of its cleaning power too. The oil change indictor is more a sale thing than anything else because they charge you a arm and a leg to buy it and so they want you to thhink you are saving money on maintaining it. That system has no way of actually know the true condition of oil because you could put dirty oil in there at change and it will no change the intervals in software. Now if it actaully monitored oil condition that would be good but it does not.

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I have done what you are doing, only I used Redline Oil. Though I don't have the test results any more as I did this back in '98, I do remember that buy doing this, the results basically indicated "normal" results. Since then, I have been doing that religiously and have never had a problem. My current Silvy has 180k on it, I run Royal Purple or Mobile 1, with a Bosch or Mobile 1 filter and have NO problems, not one oil leak (TC not withstanding) and no unusual oil consumption.