Just a poll to get some interaction in! Everyone has an opinion on this…what’s yours?
Sorry to be a dick but this is kind of a terrible poll. The 3 most common intervals are 3k, 5k, and 10k. One is not represented. One is represented by 2 different options and 2 of them are represented by the same option.
Once a year with amsoil or the like. Cars average 5k to 10k miles a year.
Whenever my oil goes from “Yeah that’s about right” to “eugh yep its time”, typically around the 4-5k mark. Yay direct injection!
I work at a shop so an oil change costs me like 6$. The answer is way too often.
Full synthetic, and 8-10 thousand miles.
At 20%
Minimum every 6 months during the half yearly service. Otherwise, according to the specified mileage on the bottle.
Depends on the car. My subaru says every 6,000. I bought it new so I just do it every 5k for easy record keeping.
I have 20k on my trucks built up engine. I religiously change it at or before 3k.
Mobile one synthetic and filter for everything since it parked in my driveway.
I drive an EV now. Where’s the ‘never’ option?
Not if you drive a pure EV Kona, Niro or Ioniq! People found out poor reduction gearbox design means it fouls up it’s gear oil rapidly (compared to say, a Bolt which does not do that) and periodic changes are necessary - or at least one done early in it’s break-in period. (Not to be confused with the hybrid versions of those three or the Ioniq 5 and 6)
That is fascinating and really shitty for people with those cars
My truck is mote modern, and I change the oil at 5,000-6,000 miles. I have a sort of project/fun vehicle with a much more primitive SOHC 4-cylinder that runs a it 3,500 rpm on the highway, and I change its oil every 3,000 miles.
Every 3,000-3,750 miles. HyunKia GDI 4-cylinders are dirty little engines and the “severe” schedule of 3,000 (2.0T), 3,750 (2.4L/3.3L) applies in “rare” driving conditions such traffic in hot weather, very cold weather, hills, <5 mile trips, stop/go traffic, etc.
Your intervals are sadly too wide by the way.
Every 15000km,
I don’t even own a car to do oil change in the first place, lol.
That’s kind of a personal question.
You’re kind of a personal question
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Like, in a car?
Or a lawnmower. Personally, I change my push mower’s oil every 3,000 miles /s
Edit: I did the math for this, actually. For one acre of land, assuming you had a 4ft wide push mower, it would take about 2.05 miles of walking per acre of land, for complete coverage, with no overlap. I prefer to do a 25% overlap though, so let’s increase that to 3 miles per acre at most.
This means you would need to do 1,000 acres of push mowing before changing the oil in a push mower at this rate. This is about 757 American football fields, 1.56 square miles, or about yay big: https://i.postimg.cc/qRrfdqdn/IMG-1199.jpg
Good to know!
The mowers I’ve had have use that fucked up and horrifying system where you’re supposed to mix the gasoline with motor oil.
So two stroke engines? Yeah, those have a bit of maintenance for sure
Well this is the cars community…
