Missed a service

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I have changed job a few times over the last 18 months and increased my mileage. I tend to do 40 miles each way to work. 90% of my mileage and 70% of my trips are done this way.
By next Saturday I will be on 17,500 since the last service (April 2015).
Afaik this is 12,500.
I have kept the oil topped up with castrol fully synth.

I know doing longer trips heavily reduces oil degradation and general engine wear, but in general how much damage would have been caused to the engine?

Remapped 2.0 TDCI Focus 57 reg that I plan on getting rid of later this year.

In before: Engine ruined and set in on fire. Took a poo through my own letterbox just to be sure.
 
It will be perfectly fine. Just get an oil service (or whichever is due next) in April.
 
Probably no damage whatsoever, I've missed a couple of services by more than that on my Mondeo which is 4 years older, for the same reason as you, just been busy and forgot, it went 5 years without a fuel filter change at one point though :o.

It's still running perfectly at well over 200k miles.
 
So long as it had quality modern oil in it to start with I doubt this once will have caused much if any harm tbh, you've kept it topped up fith a modern fully synth oil which I would imagine wouldn't degrade too much overall.

Get it done asap and remember for next time / the next car to service it on time.

Extended oil change intervals are the biggest cause of turbo failure, its done to satisfy accountants who run large fleets not for mechanical sympathy.


On the other hand though - I know of an old Merc Sprinter that was serviced every 25k miles (about 10k past its recommended) from new, its now done just shy of 400k with the same owner and the same service plan, it lives on motorways and has survived this abuse for years & years, I really don't think you have much to worry about tbh!
 
I serviced my friends Nissan Micra after about 50,000 miles of her running it over-filled with gloopy oil of the incorrect spec. The oil filter was dated 2003...

It is still buzzing about quite happily.

This isn't as serious as you think... :)
 
Will be absolutely fine - a lot of cars end up being serviced a bit late , if you are on a yearly schedule and regularly got 14 months between services (which would likely still be in manufacturer tolerance) you'll effectively look like a service has been missed after a few years
 
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