Engine Hours instead of Mileage

[Triple_Se7en]

Anyone read an Obituary to find out that their best friend Jack Beanstalk died at 700,800 hours?
Anyone read the same Obituary and they list Jack's life measured at 35,040,000 lifetime steps?
Normally Jack's Obituary will only read 80 years old.

Normally, USA passenger vehicle lifetimes are measured in miles driven / vehicle age.
The Hours measurement seems to be driven by Commercial use (or) Payment measurements

 

[OVERKILL]

OLM's take in to account idling.They are more sophisticated that some comments on these oil threads.

This.

 

[brandon9715]

Anyone read an Obituary to find out that their best friend Jack Beanstalk died at 700,800 hours?
Anyone read the same Obituary and they list Jack's life measured at 35,040,000 lifetime steps?
Normally Jack's Obituary will only read 80 years old.

Normally, USA passenger vehicle lifetimes are measured in miles driven / vehicle age.
The Hours measurement seems to be driven by Commercial use (or) Payment measurements

The average person doesn’t account for hours, but being the average person isn’t why you’re on BITOG. The average person changes oil when the OLM or a sticker tells them to and they don’t know why. Not exactly a good metric for success.

 

[OVERKILL]

Anyone read an Obituary to find out that their best friend Jack Beanstalk died at 700,800 hours?
Anyone read the same Obituary and they list Jack's life measured at 35,040,000 lifetime steps?
Normally Jack's Obituary will only read 80 years old.

Normally, USA passenger vehicle lifetimes are measured in miles driven / vehicle age.
The Hours measurement seems to be driven by Commercial use (or) Payment measurements

700,800 hours is the exact same thing as 80 years. it's like saying 20GWh instead of 20,000MWh or 20,000,000kWh. Nobody has any idea how many steps Jack walked. That's a bizarre attempt at trying to delegitimize the use of time by using... just another representation of that same amount of time

 

[gman2304]

My situation seems relevant and I hope I’m not hijacking but I discovered yesterday my ‘ new to me ‘ 2019 Silverado Custom 4.3 V6 has an hour meter. It currently has 3,063 hours at 72,000 miles and according to the mileage/hour calculator on the WWW and if my math is right, it has averaged 23.5 mph….. in all those miles! It seems to have been driven in slow city traffic and or idled a lot. I have changed the oil to the new Valvoline R&P 5w30 and have about 2,500 miles on the current oil and am also planning on running it through the Valvoline recommended 4 OCI’s. When I first looked at the truck I thought 5 years and 70,000 miles so roughly 14,000 miles a year. A bit high but not too bad, and I didn’t even consider the hours until I happened upon this thread yesterday after discovering the hour meter. I’ve added a transmission fluid and filter change, diff oil change, air and cabin filters, yadda, yadda, yadda. It looks, runs and drives like new. Any thoughts/opinions on these numbers?

 

[OVERKILL]

My situation seems relevant and I hope I’m not hijacking but I discovered yesterday my ‘ new to me ‘ 2019 Silverado Custom 4.3 V6 has an hour meter. It currently has 3,063 hours at 72,000 miles and according to the mileage/hour calculator on the WWW and if my math is right, it has averaged 23.5 mph….. in all those miles! It seems to have been driven in slow city traffic and or idled a lot. I have changed the oil to the new Valvoline R&P 5w30 and have about 2,500 miles on the current oil and am also planning on running it through the Valvoline recommended 4 OCI’s. When I first looked at the truck I thought 5 years and 70,000 miles so roughly 14,000 miles a year. A bit high but not too bad, and I didn’t even consider the hours until I happened upon this thread yesterday after discovering the hour meter. I’ve added a transmission fluid and filter change, diff oil change, air and cabin filters, yadda, yadda, yadda. It looks, runs and drives like new. Any thoughts/opinions on these numbers?

My wife's truck, on this most recent OCI, was 103,160km (64,100 miles) and 3,323 hours. That's an average speed of 19.29mph, lol. It spends a lot of time in town.

So, I wouldn't consider your situation at all unusual.

 

[Randy_R]

What about fuel consumption? I saw something from Caterpillar that based OCI on fuel consumption.

 

[b_b]

What about fuel consumption? I saw something from Caterpillar that based OCI on fuel consumption.

all these systems take into account fuel burn. they are all based on derived formulas that take into account numerous factors. manufacturers have also expanded and added environmental conditions to make them more accurate.

 

[snowshew]

2.7 EcoBoost f-150, city driver. Always an average mph in the low 20s, generally cold weather though garaged. Short trips, etc. I change oil about every 100-110 hours and the filter every other time.

 

[ThirdeYe]

I prefer using an accurate OLM that'll take more factors into account.

 

[lars11]

You could/should put run time in the algorithm as well as total fuel consumed, idle time, cold/hot oil hours, high rpm hrs etc
Not always the distance is a perfect parameter, perhaps even seldom.
But, oil is not on or off, there are margins. So if you drive normally and change 8-10 k miles or a year that is often within reason. But then…

 

[Patman]

I just took the Vette out for a drive and this is where I'm at in terms of engine hours vs kilometers. I do a lot of highway driving and don't get caught in too much stop and go.