OCI Obsession and loving it!

[mikeduf]

Hello all,
Figured I'd post this for a general census of the masses.
Not looking for any reprimanding on; you are wasting resources, or just flat-out ridiculous and Overkill.

I'm just voicing my oci as a cathartic and a process that I just enjoy performing on my 2024 Rav4 hybrid car, and mostly love the way it runs after a fresh change.

Does anyone else do there oci at or around 1K miles give or take.

I used to run all of the top name brand oils now I just buy a two Jigger, 10 quart box from Costco for $35 free shipping.
All of the reviews on their full synthetic 0w20 oil has been very good.
so I figure since I'm changing so frequently why not just go with a non name brand and enjoy what I do!

I should probably also mention I don't drive much Highway and I let the engine warm up probably too long, and I for sure can smell excessive fuel in the oil.
That's another reason that I have been changing so frequently but it's my obsession.

I know if I ran it on the highway more I could probably burn off a lot of that fuel. Anyway just wondering if anybody out there feels the same way, or am I the odd duck!

 

[Al]

Its a free country. Your engine will not last noticably loger than one who changes every 10,000 miles and is careful to keep the oil level up.
My 270,000 mile 2008 past subaru will tell you that.

So your obsession is not based on fact or common sense

 

[TheOilWizard]

Not a reprimand.. but rather just expressing my opinion on your post.

I think there's studies that show more wear per mile in the early stages of an OCI compared to later. Say, the first 1-2k miles.

So not only is this not helping your engine, if anything, it's hurting it.

 

[Oillover]

Your engine will not last noticably loger than one who changes every 10,000 miles and is careful to keep the oil level up.

Why stop at 10k when 15k is considered prudent?

 

[userfriendly]

I’m in the change it more often with whatever is on sale camp instead of spending 3x as much for the best of the best and extending oil change intervals.

I didn’t buy my cars and trucks to test oil.

 

[Patman]

I’m in the change it more often with whatever is on sale camp instead of spending 3x as much for the best of the best and extending oil change intervals.

I didn’t buy my cars and trucks to test oil.

I’m in the camp of following my oil life monitors but also using some of the better (but not too expensive) off the shelf oils. My typical OCI in my Corvette ends up being around 11,000 km and around 15,000 km in my Civic. I drive over 50,000 km a year so 1000 mile oil changes would just be ridiculous. Even 3000 mile oil changes would be too much

 

[JoelB]

You are of course free to do as you please with things you have purchased. No reprimanding deserved. But don't assume that you are doing your engine any favors or that it will have any noticeable affect.

If it's for fun and you enjoy it, more power to you.

 

[DriveHard]

Not a reprimand.. but rather just expressing my opinion on your post.

I think there's studies that show more wear per mile in the early stages of an OCI compared to later. Say, the first 1-2k miles.

So not only is this not helping your engine, if anything, it's hurting it.

Agree, I would wait at least 5k miles, or a year.

 

[Elkins45]

Six months or 5k miles for me. Anything else is just wasting resources and throwing away money. Maybe take up another hobby like sharpening knives.

 

[Wrenchturner44]

People who own cars with CVTs need to learn your obsession but only when changing the CVT fluid......LOL.

 

[GR_CoB]

I like changing oil. After a few thousand miles on a fill my engines start having "just a hair" more valve train noise, especially noticeable on hot idle. A fresh fill takes care of that nicely for another few thousand miles. With my climate, usage patterns, and OCI length and HDEO 15W-40/5W-40 is all my cars get these days. Some air cooled toys also get same. Pouring out the dark oil and pouring in the clean golden amber stuff is very satisfying.

 

[userfriendly]

I’m in the camp of following my oil life monitors but also using some of the better (but not too expensive) off the shelf oils. My typical OCI in my Corvette ends up being around 11,000 km and around 15,000 km in my Civic. I drive over 50,000 km a year so 1000 mile oil changes would just be ridiculous. Even 3000 mile oil changes would be too much

OCD would be changing the oil in a Diesel pickup when it turned black.
I changed the oil in my daughter’s 3500 L5P yesterday and it’s black already.
Delvac 1300 $78 Canadian a pail from Walmart and they didn’t charge the environmental fees.
My son puts 35,000 kms a year on his 2013 GMC 5.3L and runs out his OLM and then some. He likes 5w40 Super Tech A3/B4 Euro when it goes on roll back for $17/jug.
I bought several jugs of 10w40 GTX when it was on sale with Canadian Tire money on 20% bonus day. That goes into my daughter’s Acadia that only sees a thousand kms a month. This time it only had 5,300 kms on the oil since I changed it last in May. But, I don’t know when I’ll see that car next and oil changes are cheap when I do them opposed to dropping it off at the dealership.
My daily driver is a deleted LML. The oil stays clean forever. I’ll leave the filter on for two changes. I used to put up to 40,000 kms on that truck when I was getting paid for kms from the railway. But now it sees only 12,000 kms 90% long trips. The best ever UOA was with Duron SAE 40 and 100% highway. I ran the OLM out to 16,000 kms and it showed 8ppm Fe. A 20L pail is $100 Canadian at the bulk place.
Another deal was 6 pails of 15w40 T5 two summers ago. On sale for C88$ on 20% bonus Canadian Tire money back day. I had enough Canadian Tire money for 5 pails and the money back bought the 6th pail. The money back from the 6th pail bought an oil filter, a Diet Coke and an O’Henery.
The point of all this is buy the cheapest oil on sale and change it as often as you please.

 

[gfh77665]

I would never do that, but if you enjoy the 1000 mile OCI experience I fully support you doing just that. in addition to "A to B" transportation, vehicles are made to enjoy. Have fun.

 

[D1dad]

1000 is a little extreme. But, I am 100% in the “dirty oil, dirty engine” camp. Regardless of what’s said about oil color not mattering. I do 5k-7k oil changes and I’m not afraid to spend a few bucks on the oil I use. Still half of what a quick lube would charge.

 

[Patman]

People who own cars with CVTs need to learn your obsession but only when changing the CVT fluid......LOL.

I have 162,000 miles on my Civic and the CVT fluid has only been changed twice. I don’t drive it hard so it really doesn’t need excessive fluid changes.

 

[Bill7]

I prefer to change my oil at 5,000 miles or 6 months (whichever comes first).
The time component is very important, to protect against sludge from short tripping in cold weather.

I prefer using a low priced Dexos 1 Gen 3 approved HMFS 5W-30, and high efficiency oil and air filters.

I also do a drain and fill of the transmission fluid every 33k miles with OEM fluid,
which comes out to 3 drain and fills every 100k miles.

Simple low cost maintenance is the way to get to 300k miles, in my opinion.

 

[Wrenchturner44]

I have 162,000 miles on my Civic and the CVT fluid has only been changed twice. I don’t drive it hard so it really doesn’t need excessive fluid changes.

Good for you, and I hope your good fortune continues.

I just have a problem (personal one, I admit) with these transmission designs that are actually engineered to make metal shavings via normal operational charecteristics. If I had an engine or transmission that I knew was doing something whereby the lubricant contained therein was becoming contaminated to design excess, then I would be changing the lubricant excessively.

I have 2 vehicles that have GDI fuel systems. The recommended OCIs for both is 10k or 1 year. I am changing each of them at 5k intervals because I know that GDI engines have more oil dilution charecteristics from the GDI operation inherently.

 

[JavierH19]

How long does it take to reach a thousand miles

 

[spasm3]

Might be doing more harm than good?
Didn't some of @dnewton3 's data show that wear went up right after an oil change?

 

[Oillover]

How long does it take to reach a thousand miles

+1000
Best question in this thread!