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Originally posted by KieferS:
I don't even plan on keeping this car for long- i could probably just shove some M1 extended preformance for the next two years, and change the oil before i sell it- im sure the engine won't look bad at all after the change. my mom on her 89 camry drove 150k with out a single oil change, all she did was buy oil as it was burned off- and this is on old group I or what ever oil-not the fancy 'SM' we have today. Not even a single airfilter was changed, the only thing i can ever remember her having changed is the spark plug- which we were told was stuck in the cylinder and that it may break if it were to be taken out. She bought me the wrench she saw the mechanic using at 11 years old, and told me to get the spark plug out when we got back home. I took it out in one piece. The car ran fine when we sold it.at around 190k. Now i have a car 17 years newer, and im changing the oil every 3k- it seems rediculous now that i think of it- but its just this part of me- it bugs me- i can't even drive my car, i seem like im letting her down for all the service she has given me. So for my peace of mind- i just change it at 3kvor every 6 months.
Kiefer:
Really, I understand where you're coming from. That said, your program is just not fact based. First, ask yourself where the 3/3 came from in the first place. Good guidance, perhaps, decades ago. Do you really think that in those decades, despite all the advances we've seen in all the other systems of our cars, that only the lube system and oil has remained stuck somewhere in the 1950s?
Now, if thinking that over isn't enough, please head over to our UOA section. There you will find page after page after page of data that shows that the old 3/3 plan is simply not needed and a waste of time, money, and resources. Look at wear metals, fluid condition, particle counts, TBN, and so forth, and you will see that modern healthy cars simply don't do to oil what carbureted engines, using poor quality leaded gas, with primative CCV systems, did to the early multi-grade oils of a generation ago.
I've followed your thread about the opposite extreme with some interest. I'm pretty well sure that you guys don't have money to burn (who does!). If nothing else, you could kick it out to 5/6 or 6/6 and pretty much cut your OC costs in half.
This is a great site, glad you found it. Now young man,
learn from it. I'm 45 and have learned much in 2.5 years. Wish we'd had such things when I was your age!
