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• i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can get away with changing it once a year as long as you rotate it every few months.

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• UncleArthur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My car requires a service plus oil change every year or 10k miles, whichever comes first.

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  • v3ctors@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And you should cut that in half. 5k max. Auto Manufactures are only interested in your vehicle making it to the end warranty.

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    • just2look@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      With fully synthetic oils, tighter tolerances, and cleaner running engines there are many cars that are easily going to make it to a year or 10k miles without serious degradation of the oil.

      Things like tire rotations should still be done more often. And there are ways to check/test oil for degradation if you don’t believe manufacturer recommendations.

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    • dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is opposite from what I’ve heard. Dealerships make a killing on their service department, so they say you need oil change every 8k when in reality 10k is probably fine.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Modern oils can do more like 40k km in a healthy engine.

      Worst I’ve done and this wasn’t intentional but rather me being in a deeply unhealthy relationship where my ex made me drive around a lot (10k km a month if not more) and didn’t leave me any money for oil changes (all of it was my money, but she got pregnant so it all became her money) so that car did over 60k km on one oil change. Car is still driving around a few years later, just not in my ownership.

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      • v3ctors@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The oil itself isn’t the issue.

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• Mpatch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nah just run it once with out, then you just top up every other fill up no oil change needed

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• blackbeans@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That totally depends on your mileage.

  If you are an average driver (USA ~20 000 km per year, European ~10 000 km per year), a yearly oil change is sufficient. Frequent changes are environmentally unfriendly, while at the same time costing more money than they save.
  A good fully synthetic oil can do 20 000 km in most modern cars.

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  • phar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is also HIGHLY dependant on the quality of filter. Too many garbage filters out there.

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