Longest Drain You have done or seen.

[TFB1]

One of the wife's cousins rolled in here from Ohio in a Dodge Neon that was two quarts low and had 29K mi on the current fill of Pennzoil conventional...AFAIK it had not had any oil added(at least not lately) and could have passed for black paint... I wouldn't let her start back till I changed it...

My own is 9539mi on Mobil 1 Extended Performance in a '98 Grand Marquis...

 

[2James1]

One of the wife's cousins rolled in here from Ohio in a Dodge Neon that was two quarts low and had 29K mi on the current fill of Pennzoil conventional...AFAIK it had not had any oil added(at least not lately) and could have passed for black paint...

WOW

 

[JOD]

Originally Posted By: MGPD03
Unfortunately I'm privvy to a 57k OCI...



I thought I was going to win this one, but it looks like we're tied! 57K is the magic number. Here's the filter on the 57K OCI: LINK

The car has about 205K on it and is running fine. The bad news is that the guy moved out of my rental apt and I don't think he's changed the oil since then... He still "tops it up" though....

 

[MarkStock]

Originally Posted By: Mr_Incredible
I did a 2.5 yr interval on the 98 Camaro. PP. 3k miles. The OA came out with a bit of high iron. Otherwise, just fine.

I did 2 yr interval on the truck this weekend. 3.5k miles. PP. Looked pretty bad. Put in Mobil 1 0w30 for the next two years.


Does the truck idle a lot? I presume it's diesel.

 

[MarkStock]

Originally Posted By: gonefishing
Originally Posted By: JRed
IIRC the reason he went 55,000 miles was due to some oil consumption/leak problem.


This is quoted from the http://www.millionmilevan.com/ website:

"I used Valvoline 10W-40 motor oil and change it every 10,000 to 20,000 miles. The longest I’ve went between oil changes is 55,000 miles. It used a quart of oil or more every tank of gas. I usually waited for the oil to turn black before changing it."

A quart every tank! I wonder how many miles were on the vehicle when that started?


A quart of oil every fuel tank? Wow, and Ford is calling this a success story?

 

[MarkStock]

Originally Posted By: TFB1
One of the wife's cousins rolled in here from Ohio in a Dodge Neon that was two quarts low and had 29K mi on the current fill of Pennzoil conventional...AFAIK it had not had any oil added(at least not lately) and could have passed for black paint... I wouldn't let her start back till I changed it...


She'll need to change it when she gets back and then probably for a few more short ocis until it stops coming out black.

 

[Lyman]

I knew a guy years ago that had an 80s Ford ranger. It had a 4 banger in it and all he ever did was top it off. I pulled the dip stick one day and it looked like black maple syrup. He told me that I was going to jinx him by looking at it. He planned on leaving it on the side of the road when it quit running. He drove it like that for the 6 or 7 years that I knew him.

 

[oldhp]

My daughter's Bonneville, 3.8 I believe, 16000 miles. Said she was little over on oil change. Valvoline 10w30 conventional was thin and black. Car burned 1qt per 1500 miles ever after.
Just like Fram says, "You can pay me now, or pay me later".
She learned her lesson, 3000 miles faithfully now.

 

[gregoron]

I went 10 months or 10k miles on mostly Pennzoil Conventional 10w40, Supertech 10w30, and Super Tech 10w-40, with a Fram filter in my Jetta 2.Slow. I was following the 10k mile OCI based on the manual which should be for synthetic oil. I know better now after some research and joining this forum.

I have Super Tech 10w40 conventional in it now and will change every 6 months or 6k miles using OEM filters and drain plugs. I noticed that with the first 500 miles with Super Tech, I haven't burned oil get unlike the 1qt per 1k miles it was consuming prior to the oil change.

 

[fauxchemist]

I have always done 15,000 oci. myself. My dad could care less about his oil,tops it off,never changes it. He has always bought oldsmobiles, never has he had an oil related issue from not changing it. Matter of fact the only issues hes ever had were electrical

 

[Bamaro]

3 years in my occasionally used Camaro. Blackstone report was fine.

 

[Kuato]

12,000 miles in our Wrangler is the longest I've done.

60000 miles in a mommobile Taurus wagon is the longest I've seen. It was in the 90s, and after she got gas it wouldn't turn over. Needed a new engine.