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Question (in my best Dwight Schrute voice) - I have a 3000-3500 mile road trip vacation coming up. It's obviously going have mostly highway miles, but there will be some elevation and a little mild off-roading. It's my ZR2 with the 2.7 Turbomax engine. I believe the manual calls for 6k mile oil...

Cool looking jug if nothing else...

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16k mile update... Not too much to report here, which is a good thing. I've been doing about 4500mile oil changes, give or take, mainly due to weather since I don't have a garage. It was fairly cold in northern Ohio this winter, so the oil changes got done when it was above freezing and there...

Yes. Yes you do.

There are still newer people coming to the website that don't know that. And I'm not saying your wrong or trying to argue with you. I think it's just how it is.

And I hear you, but the argument is not going to go away, and it's at least it's all in one place.

Why don't we just have a sticky with one thick vs thin ongoing thread?

Those FB20 and FB25 engines were known major oil consumers, but like the poster above me said, some were really bad, some were ok. A few years back, I was on a road trip, and an old lady was in a quick mart at the gas station, and she was totally lost looking for oil. She had just bought a...

CX-5 is bullet proof these days...

It'd be port injected.

Out and in: Valvoline EP 5w-30 Fram Ultra oil filter 4,550mi on oil 14k mi on ZR2 2.7L Turbomax

Did you pull the trigger on that bad boy?