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View Poll Results: How often do you change your oil? | |||
Regular Oil - Every 1-2K miles | 3 | 4.84% | |
Regular Oil - Every 3-4K miles | 29 | 46.77% | |
Regular Oil - Every 5-6K miles | 2 | 3.23% | |
Regular Oil - Every 7K+ miles | 1 | 1.61% | |
Synthetic Oil - Every 1-2K miles | 2 | 3.23% | |
Synthetic Oil - Every 3-4K miles | 13 | 20.97% | |
Synthetic Oil - Every 5-6K miles | 9 | 14.52% | |
Synthetic Oil - Every 7K+ miles | 3 | 4.84% | |
Voters: 62. You may not vote on this poll |
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How often do you change your oil?
Since buying my car in April, she's seen 4 oil changes in the 6K miles I've put on her. I'm therefore averaging an oil change every 1.5-2K miles, which I feel is good insurance for a car I take to the dragstrip...
What's does everyone else around here do? -Chike P.S. I run regular blend oil as my crankshaft seals get a slow leak with synthetic. Designed my poll to accomodate for those members who use synth in their cars which has a longer mileage life...
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your skipped 2K-3K, 4K-5K, and 6K-7K
well I change my oil some were between 2.5K and 3K with moble one Synthetic. I think I'm going to start changging it more offend now that I only drive my car on the week ends. I'm down from 200 miles a week to about 20.
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For instance by 1-2K, I meant from 1,000 miles up to 2,999 miles. So if you changed your oil every 2.5K miles you'd fall in that category. I guess I should have been more clear... -Chike
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Semisynthetic every 3k, sometimes let it go a few hundred miles past before I get around to it.
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Since i swapped my 5spd in last year i barley got to drive it before a year passed so i changed my full synthectic oil after around 1 K, but i will probley do it around every 3k since iam acully driving it.
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I use a synthetic/regular blend and change around 2,500 miles to 3,000.
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I admit I'm not religous when it comes to changing my oil. Often I don't remember to keep track of the current mileage when I change the oil.
I'm sure I've had 12000kms on a single change. I always use Mobil1 Synthetic.
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Thirty-five hundred to 4000 miles for me, with conventional Havoline 10W40, the only oil I've ever used in anything. I keep meticulous records and aim for 3500, anyway, but always end up procrastinating for a week or two.
Honestly, I suspect we've all to some degree caved to the motor oil party line. After all, Subaru's warranty requirement is a generous 7,500 interval. (Granted, that's through the first 60,000 miles, and it makes sense to change more frequently as a car ages.) Have to give the oil companies credit for superb advertising. Everyone changes the filter each time? That's probably more important than changing the oil. dcb |
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Well, you don't have a spot for synthetic blend, so I chose regular every 3-4k. I prefer Valvoline Durablend. As a related question, what brand filter does everyone use?
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-Chike
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use Mobil1, change every 5k, or about once a year.
who the hell are the two that use synthetic and change every 1-2k?!?!?!?!?!?
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-Chike
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato 2013 Cosmic Blue 5spd Evo X GSR 2006 Galaxy Gray 6MT RX-8 (sold) 2006 Steel Gray WRX TR (sold) 1996 Brilliant Red SVX L (sold) |
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Mobil 1, every 5-7k, depending on how 'good' I've been (ie, not speeding).
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I do 3-4K miles and change w/ mobil 1. I used to do every 1.5K w/ mobil 1 too...but I feel that it was all to often given the cost.
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Heres a random question of the day.. does mileage come from "mile" and if so.. if you measure distance in Kilometers.. is it still mileage?
Anywho.. i change with regular oil ever 3000 miles... just like yu'r suppozed ta.
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