Do you change oil every 5,000 miles?

[Tr1p]

Every 10K miles which is roughly every 5-6 months.

Car is still on the original turbo, and uses no oil at all. Just ticked over 230K miles.

 

[Firestar_3x]

£30 to change the oil and filter? What are you running in it, water? or just a pathetically small engine?

 

[mrk]

Every 5k miles for petrol is ludicrous!

It's every 15k miles for mine (condition based servicing though, so usually a bit less). My car never burns excess oil, and in 30k miles has never needed a top up between services.

Basically as soon as the OBC says <1k miles left until next service, I get it booked in.

 

[Scania]

Annually for me (rarely do 10k in my car) the interval for the trucks at work is every 37.5k miles.

 

[Jonny ///M]

I just do it yearly with Castrol Edge when the trip computer tells me to. My mileage has dropped slightly and I've left it a bit later due to time/money/usual.

Think I did it at 96k December '15 and last week at 114k, oil didn't look that bad for being a small turbo and getting driven quite hard.

 

[Django x2]

From my 2.0 MG ZT CDTi which did over 1k miles a week, I used to change the oil between 8-12k. Not because it used oil, it didn't, but because I felt like I was doing it a (dis)service not too. That car last to 128k before it died. My 530d, which I serviced when the condition based servicing told me, lived to 170k miles. I might have performed 2 interim oil changes on that car.

 

[Prophet]

Lots of people needlessly changing perfectly good oil. I'm interested to know why 5K seems to be a 'good' time to change it?

 

[c1tro]

Lots of people needlessly changing perfectly good oil. I'm interested to know why 5K seems to be a 'good' time to change it?

Because you reduce the chance of your engine/turbo dying early(ier). If you change cars every 60k miles I agree it doesn't make sense but if you are planning to keep it for a while why not make reduce the risk?

 

[tom_nieto]

It's meant to be every 20k or 2 years, however I'm going to halve that. I've never left oil in a car for longer than that.

 

[Rilot]

Why 5k though? If 5k is better than 10k then why not at 2k? Or 1k?
Manufacturers set their recommended oil change intervals from the results of vast amounts of testing and research in collaboration with lubricant producers.

Modern lubricants are so much better than the old mineral-oil based stuff people used to put in their cars in the 60s.

 

[[TW]Fox]

Mainly for diesel owners. I would think diesels with turbos would benefit from oil changes before the recommended 20k from some manufacturers.

Of course not. The people who designed my engine know best.

 

[kindai]

Every 6 months or every 6000 miles, whatever comes first.

And usually a 250ml top up 3 months after each full change.

 

[Drollic]

There is a noticeable difference between fresh oil and oil that's a year old and done 7000 miles in my s2000. This is with motul 5w40 fully synthetic. I'll continue to change under service recommendation/yearly on future cars, but nothing drastic.

 

[dacads]

Don't do that many miles atm so yearly

 

[Holst1981]

When I had my prelude it was every 6000miles. Which I think was really service interval. Early vtec.

I do the mx5 every year, that's about 10k
Not sure on the book says but I do it yearly so I don't forget.

 

[And]

Serviced every 10K, oil and filter change. Golf TSI (twincharge).

 

[opstrat]

havnt done my mondeo 2.3 petrol yet (only done 4k in it since buying) i change my dads honda crv fairly regular as its a chain timing belt.

 

[russell664]

7,500k miles for both oil and filter. Mine is coming up to the 52,500k service - a lot more to do which i'm going to do myself.

 

[Flack88]

Oil and filter every 4K miles.

 

[agw_01]

On something 'normal' I would change the oil every 12k.

On my WRX, due to the large amount of 'easy' motorway mileage it did I changed the oil every 8k.

On my Rover and STi (anything petrol turbo that gets driven hard), I change at 6k.

I'm not a fan of longlife servicing, just my personal preference.