Most you ever went on a factory fill?

[doublebase]

A 2022 Kia Carnival came in yesterday on its factory fill oil…it had slightly over 11,000 miles on it! Customer “forgot” to change it. Think the recommendations for the interval is 8,000? Not sure on that though.

Oil looked obviously very dark. Surprisingly it really wasn’t noticeably low on oil when it came in. Took some pictures, cut open the cartridge style filter. Looked pretty normal as terms of metal (or lack of). Few little metal specs caught in that filter, but looked pretty normal. Honestly pretty nice looking vehicle overall. Pretty impressed that the 3.5 V6 went that far without using oil, and looking (in appearance anyway), that it did “ok”.

I’d NEVER DO THIS. In fact the most I’ll usually go is 1,000 on a factory fill, but surely that is/has been debated to death. But 11,000 miles?! Nuts.

 

[BMWTurboDzl]

About 14k miles on my E90 330. I posted the UOA but that was over 10 years ago.

 

[PF52]

I recently cut open a factory filter with less than 1000 miles on it. It looked the same.... Same tiny fragments of metal. I tend to think they mostly get accumulated there pretty quickly when the engine is brand new. You're most likely perfectly fine.

 

[Snagglefoot]

I went 10,000 miles on my factory fill on my 6.0 LS engine. It now has over 200,000 miles. The filter picks up any wear articles.

 

[Chris142]

One of our drivers went 15k on a brand new Pete with an X15 Cummins.

 

[slo town]

The longest I ever went on FF was 3K or 4K on a 2000 5.9L Dodge Durango AWD SLT Plus with 3.92 gears. And I always regretted going that long. That was a sweet motor, but it did like its gasoline. Aside from that I've never gone more than 1K on FF.

Scott

 

[tyman]

We went 2500 on the CR-V factory.

 

[wpod]

I went 10,000 miles on my factory fill on my 6.0 LS engine. It now has over 200,000 miles. The filter picks up any wear articles.

After wear particles go through the oil pump and the engine when the filter goes into bypass then starting the engine and at other times.

 

[nomas]

I've bought a fair number of new vehicles over the years and have never changed the oil sooner than the factory recommended OCI . Nobody has ever proven to me that there is any real , measurable , advantage to doing so . I use the word " obsession " here frequently , and I firmly believe a lot of what I read here is just that . And that's ok , it' keeps things interesting . As long as you can separate fact from obsession . This should trigger folks ...

 

[billt460]

My 2018 Toyota only had 450 miles on the clock when I dumped it, along with the filter. But it had 0W-16 in it.

 

[Kjmack]

3k , I was busy .

 

[ryster]

The Carnival owner was only 3,000 miles over the recommended mileage interval. That's really not bad. Life happens, people get busy and have priorities that are more important to them than oil changes. It's totally understandable. 95% of Carnival owners are probably not OCD about their vehicle's maintenance other than vacuuming it out, put gas in it, and go.

I always run factory fills according to the interval in the manual or the OLM [if the vehicle has one]. My current vehicle went almost 7,000 miles on the factory fill before the OLM message popped up.

 

[UncleDave]

7K on my Honda.

 

[ATex7239]

I have had many business leases over the years and none got early dumps. All the vehicles get pretty much the bare minimum to maintain the warranty/programs. All were traded in around 120K-150K and ran perfectly fine. This experience has changed my outlook on the necessity of dumping the factory fill. So I have follow suit with person vehicles and had the exact same out come. But with even more miles racked up.

This my subjective opinion based on personal experience. I just run the intended interval from day one and change accordingly.

7,500 miles is the longest.

 

[BMWTurboDzl]

I have had many business leases over the years and none got early dumps. All the vehicles get pretty much the bare minimum to maintain the warranty/programs. All were traded in around 120K-150K and ran perfectly fine. This experience has changed my outlook on the necessity of dumping the factory fill. So I have follow suit with person vehicles and had the exact same out come. But with even more miles racked up.

This my subjective opinion based on personal experience. I just run the intended interval from day one and change accordingly.

7,500 miles is the longest.

Nothing subjective about it. You followed the automakers OCI and your engine did not spontaneously seize up at 120-150k miles. There's a psychological benefit to over maintaining ones vehicle and being human was make up all sorts of SUBJECTIVE/ANECODTAL reasons to justify it.

 

[doublebase]

The Carnival owner was only 3,000 miles over the recommended mileage interval. That's really not bad. Life happens, people get busy and have priorities that are more important to them than oil changes. It's totally understandable. 95% of Carnival owners are probably not OCD about their vehicle's maintenance other than vacuuming it out, put gas in it, and go.

I always run factory fills according to the interval in the manual or the OLM [if the vehicle has one]. My current vehicle went almost 7,000 miles on the factory fill before the OLM message popped up.

I was thinking the same thing, it's really only 3,000 over the recommended interval. But still, for my stomach I just couldn't handle it.

 

[buster]

5k on my 2015 3.

 

[Kjmack]

People give the auto manufacturers to much credit in all their fluid intervals . But if you trade it in every 4 years , it doesn't matter one little bit .
One example Ford Explorer with non serviceable transfer case. All sludge by 50-60k , now they make them serviceable . Who would have thought it would need service .
I Don't follow the book for any piece of machinery .

 

[hrv]

7500 on 2021 Honda HRV

 

[1uz_4me]

My 1st gf went over a year on her 99 Corolla. She lived 35mi from the JC we went to & made that drive 5-6x a week since we ran track n cross country with practice everyday. The car was her high school graduation gift & the dealer even gave 3 free oil changes as a reward for good grades. Her dad said to save the oil changes for "when they're really needed, don't waste them on a new car." . I think she put about 25k mi on it that 1st year.