Patman
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In my case I’m currently using ESP 0w-20 but I’ve used many different OTS oils in the past 5 years that I’ve had it. As far as tig1 goes, he has always used Mobil 1 or Mobil 1 Extended Performance
2017 Rav4 Oil Burning Chronicles
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Well oil shears down.
You get contaminants from the fuel you burn and the air your car breathes.
Each their own, I'm changing it before the ten thousand miles that some manufacturers recommend
Patman
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You can’t argue with real world results though. One of tig1’s current cars is almost at 400,000 miles
I have been doing 10K (miles) OCIs for 48 years with Mobil 1 oils. Several engines with over 200-350K miles with no problems at all. See my signature below for miles on my two Ford Fusions at present. My 2007 has 344K and my 2017 had 199K.
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What year civic? The newer vehicles with direct injection are destroying oil and honda is no exception. Although my rav4 does not have DI, my santa fe does. Under the right conditions 10,000kms is perfectly exceptable, Hyundai has 315,000kms on original everything.
That said, I drive 1000kms a week mostly rural country roads in my commute to the city. I'd never go over 10,000kms with anything nowadays regardless of the oil. 15 mins in my shop on a hoist and $50 in oil and a filter is cheap assurance for me.
No, this is a toyota engine that burns oil because the oil wasn't changed frequently enough and it saw all city driving.
If you are doing 90% highway you could probably get away with 10k mile oil changes.
We're any of the high mileage engines DI?
Patman
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It’s a 2016 with the port injected 2.0, and I drive about 35,000 to 40,000 km a year. In the summer months I’m driving 260km a day so I definitely don’t want to be changing my oil any sooner than the oil life monitor tells me.
Concerning DI engines. I choose not to own an engine with DI. I don't do near 90% hyw driving with my Fords and I have done 10K OCIs since the late 70s.
I wouldn't doubt you can get away with those intervals with that engine. I definitely wouldn't do that with their 1.5T
Can't argue with results, although they irrelevant with modern engines. Regardless, We'll done!
First, I went to liked the post because the DI engines, then I saw 10K OCI and said - "Nope, I'm not liking this post."
I have to check on the low tension rings and come back to you. There is a chance they might be low tension.
We don't have any results. We don't know what cars he has/had, what's the mileage on them, what oil he use/used, and do they burn any oil. If an engine runs fine with long OCI that doesn't mean they are healthy for it on a long run.
I doubt he still has cars from the 70s.
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Same. 2012 Si here. The most it ever asked was 25k-ish km OCI. That was summer 2018 when i divorced and the car was my daily dose of anti depressant... might have done 50k km that summer. I virtually was never home.. 1200km trip for a lunch, Quebec City to Detroit just for **** and giggles, etc.. now at a hair under 488k km on the clock, i swear it might burn half a cup of oil per OCI and leak the other half thru the timing cover. I really have to do that job.. and the chains.. maybe even some stage 1 cams while i'm at it..
Not sure i would do the same with the Prius though. Or perhaps during summer but definitely not during winter. The engine never really gets that hot and oil turns into a mess in no time.
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He said it a dozen posts over yours, 2007 and 2017 Ford Fuzion.
What did he say? So late 70s equals late 2000s and late 2010s?
Also, I'm interested in how he run 10K OCI in the late 70s when by that time the synthetic oils just started to emerge on the consumer's market and were quite expensive.
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