How often do you change your oil 🛢️?
How often do you change your oil 🛢️?
What's your opinion? Vote now: Every track day, Every 1000-3000mi, Every 3000-6000mi, Every 6000-9000mi, Whatever the manual says, You have to change the oil?...
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.
That's kind of a personal question.
You're kind of a personal question
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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
I have to change annually as I don't do the mileage, If I did a 6k change on my Skyline it would be every 10 years... LOL. I use my T3 a lot more but still can't get anywhere near the distance, So once a year at some point (Usually just after an MOT) I just service them.
Yearly, regardless of mileage.
I work at a shop so an oil change costs me like 6$. The answer is way too often.
Yearly on my mustang. Never put more than 5k miles a year on it. Gti gets it every 10k, or yearly. Might drop the interval now that it’s mostly city driving.
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.
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.
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.
At 20%
Minimum every 6 months during the half yearly service. Otherwise, according to the specified mileage on the bottle.
Once a year with amsoil or the like. Cars average 5k to 10k miles a year.
I don't even own a car to do oil change in the first place, lol.
I drive a VW, besides the filter it changes it's own oil
Full synthetic, and 8-10 thousand miles.
Every 15000km,
In the car: when the oil change indicator comes on, usually about every 10k. On the bike: when I feel like it.
Pulled the valve covers recently on the car, and it was clean as a whistle.
Whenever my oil goes from "Yeah that's about right" to "eugh yep its time", typically around the 4-5k mark. Yay direct injection!
Pretty bad poll. Lots of cars can go longer than the options listed. I change mine every 20,000 km which is Mercedes recommended interval in Canada (when the car tells me to change my oil).
Didn't know that! Always learning something.
Like, in a car?
Well this is the cars community..
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
