Extending Oil Change Intervals
Originally Posted by cheech
(Post 276746)
OK, now that someone had mentioned it, I am now curious about it. the last post mentioned every 3K for oil change. Can the outlander go with out a change every 3K miles? im used to changing it every 3K miles, but if i can change my oil later that would be a great cost savings.
Your car will generate 2 or 3 less used oil filters a year and possibly 10 to 15 quarts of used oil - depending on your oil change interval. You'll need a high quality oil and filter - some argue the filter is more important than the oil but they are both important when extending OCIs. The issue is how comfortable you are extending your OCI while under warranty - I've yet to hear someone who maintains their vehicle have a lubrication problem by extending their OCI carefully with used oil analysis and common sense.
Originally Posted by cheech
(Post 276746)
ALSO mentioned the type of oil Viscosity and certain climate changes, Im from NYC, i use 5w20, will using 5w30 be better off? where would viscosity be a factor on where you live.
The days of having to change oil viscosity based on the seasons are gone thanks to the multi-weight oils - the number with the W in front of it is for 'Winter'. The second number is the oil weight at operating temperature in the engine. Who else is thinking of extending their oil change intervals or already does and what is your plan? I'm going to start in the spring of 2012 extending to 12,000-km/6-month intervals on AMSOIL - Extended Life 5W-20 Synthetic Motor Oil (XLM) using a standard Wix or Mitsubishi filter until my 5 year warranty expires and then go to 24,000-km/1-year interval on AMSOIL - Signature Series 5W-20 Synthetic Motor Oil (ALM) using an AMSOIL Ea Oil Filters - Nanofiber Technology UOA's will be done to verify that everything is good instead of blindly accepting the service life recommendations. I'll post them - but the first one probably won't be until next fall as I've got some other oil to use up first. |
Originally Posted by nesser
(Post 276764)
Who else is thinking of extending their oil change intervals or already does and what is your plan? |
This also sheds some light on extending oil changing intervals. Here is some pretty interesting information.
https://mitsubishiforum.com/forum/mi...light=analysis |
Thanks for the link Greg, very interesting. As mentioned, I've not done anything nearly as scientific as that...but my best example was my high mileage eurospec 1996 BMW M3 I had when I was stationed in Germany. That car was over 100,000 miles (with a good amount of sustained high speed autobahn abuse for the time I owned it!!) - and with that I only changed the oil when the BMW service indicator said it was time for a service....usually around 8-9000 miles. Always used a high quality synthetic; always took the time to thoroughly warm the car up before thrashing it. Sold it at around 120,000 miles and the engine was just as capable as when I bought it at 60k - it never did miss a beat.
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