How many miles should you go?

[KC Strip]

I'm wondering how many miles I should go between oil changes if I use dino oil only (along with an AC Delco Ultraguard Gold filter). Thoughts or suggestions?

 

[iamk1t]

Depends on how you drive. How many miles you put on a year...what kinda miles are they, ie mostly highway, mostly city...LOTS OF FACTORS to consider. Or just go with 3k if you don't wanna dissect it.

 

[BlazerLT]

City or highway?

What oil?

 

[texasproud]

Most modern top tier dino oils under normal driving conditions will give you 5000 miles unless you drive a car that is hard on oil or you have unusual driving habits.

 

[92saturnsl2]

I would stick with 5K.

 

[AndyH]

What kind of vehicle?

 

[KC Strip]

Good questions. Here are the answers:

1. 1994 Olds Cutlass Supreme 3.1L (176,000).

2. 1999 Chevy Suburban 5.7L (102,000).

3. Castrol GTX.

4. Pretty even split between city and highway driving.

 

[Bill in Utah]

With your outfits I'd do 5k miles or 6 months whichever comes up first using GTX.

Change the oil filter everytime.

Take care, Bill

 

[55Test]

I'm not planning on changing the oil in my 92 Accord with a Carquest premium filter until at least 5000 miles. I've got QS 5w30 winter synthetic blend. The car leaks and burns a fair bit of oil so I suppose in effect I could just change the filter since I go through so much oil, I've actually lost count how many quarts I've put in it.

 

[Audi Junkie]

Go by time, my man. If you manage to wrack-up a lot of miles in say, 3-4-6 months, that means you are doing enough highway miles to clean the oil and engine. If not many miles are driven, then you need a change to get cruddy oil from short trips out. Time intervals allows you to adjust oil for climate changes, like 10w-40 for summer and 5w30 for winter. You can do it at your convenience, like before or ON holidays or state inspection. Time.

 

[PandaBear]

Just my 0.02

I don't know about strightly go by time. I drive 60k miles a year and I don't think Dino can last me 3 month 15k miles. I would say 7.5k max under any kind of condition for Dino as manufacture suggest.

 

[Audi Junkie]

60k is quite unusual. Unless you have a garage, changing is the cold is unpleasant. Most people here would go as far as possible between changes. I drive 22k a year and would dread 7 changes, so I use synth. I guess you have to figure it out for yourself, my experience is not much help. 1000 miles a week sounds like Mobil 1 EP to me.