Hi All,
We recently acquired a new (used) Toyota Avalon. The car has about 92k miles on it now (about 4k miles since purchased) and it is showing a maintenance required soon msg on the dash. FWIW, this is primarily my Wife's car, and sees a lot of around town driving (about 80%) with a 45 minute commute each way to work. It also sits overnight in an attached garage during the winter months while the "toys" are in storage.
I would like to change the oil and filter with Mobil1 0w20 and a Mobil1 filter, as those products have always been good to me in the past. This being the first car we have owned requesting a 0w20 (with no alternatives listed in the manual), I do not have any in stock and was planning to take advantage of an Advanced Auto oil change special with 5qts and filter. This car supposedly takes 6.5 qts and I was considering adding the 1.5qt difference using some Mobil1 5w30, of which I have plenty. I am considering this partly to save from having to buy an additional 2qt singles or another 5qt jug, and also to help thicken the oil slightly, as this is also our first vehicle with direct injection, which I hear typically goes hand in hand with fuel dilution.
Also, with all of our past cars I have done 10k OCI's with no problems (Older NA Honda's and Acura's). I would like to do the same with this car for simplicity. I was thinking of running this next OCI out to 100k (about 8k miles) and then doing a UOA to verify before hopefully going to steady 10k intervals, however I am nervous that even 8k might be too long based on it's service history /integrated reminders (According to the carfax, it saw dealer services about every 5k miles, and from what I can tell the longest you can set an oil change reminder is 5k miles using the integrated maintenance app).
That said, are there any reasons I may not want to do this? Any input/discussion appreciated.
Thanks in Advance.
We recently acquired a new (used) Toyota Avalon. The car has about 92k miles on it now (about 4k miles since purchased) and it is showing a maintenance required soon msg on the dash. FWIW, this is primarily my Wife's car, and sees a lot of around town driving (about 80%) with a 45 minute commute each way to work. It also sits overnight in an attached garage during the winter months while the "toys" are in storage.
I would like to change the oil and filter with Mobil1 0w20 and a Mobil1 filter, as those products have always been good to me in the past. This being the first car we have owned requesting a 0w20 (with no alternatives listed in the manual), I do not have any in stock and was planning to take advantage of an Advanced Auto oil change special with 5qts and filter. This car supposedly takes 6.5 qts and I was considering adding the 1.5qt difference using some Mobil1 5w30, of which I have plenty. I am considering this partly to save from having to buy an additional 2qt singles or another 5qt jug, and also to help thicken the oil slightly, as this is also our first vehicle with direct injection, which I hear typically goes hand in hand with fuel dilution.
Also, with all of our past cars I have done 10k OCI's with no problems (Older NA Honda's and Acura's). I would like to do the same with this car for simplicity. I was thinking of running this next OCI out to 100k (about 8k miles) and then doing a UOA to verify before hopefully going to steady 10k intervals, however I am nervous that even 8k might be too long based on it's service history /integrated reminders (According to the carfax, it saw dealer services about every 5k miles, and from what I can tell the longest you can set an oil change reminder is 5k miles using the integrated maintenance app).
That said, are there any reasons I may not want to do this? Any input/discussion appreciated.
Thanks in Advance.
