Hello everyone. We have a 2016 Holden Commodore VFII SV6 wagon. I bought it last year with about 75,000km, now it has about 86,000km. It has the GM 3.6 and I know the earlier VE cars were prone to timing chain problems but I think they've all been sorted by 2016. I was wondering if anyone had any direct experience with the newer 3.6 engines and longer oil change intervals. We drive it a few times a week maybe ~10km trips each way, occasionally I drive it ~120km in a day, and two or three times a year we drive it across the country on a long run. I would like to change it once every two years, running maybe 20,000km in that time at most.
I don't want problems with the chain, but oil is very expensive here. I bought ~14L (15 quarts) of Mobil 1 EP 5W-30 from RockAuto in the USA, cost about $300 with shipping and import duty. I also bought some Mann 69/3X filters from Amazon.com, I think they were around $20 each with free shipping as part of a bigger order. That might seem expensive to the Americans but a 5L jug at Repco of Mobil 1 5W-30 is $150 normally, sometimes you can get it for as low as $100 on special, but for whatever reason the M1 sold here is GF-5, API SN/SM, vs. the newer formulations the Americans get. So for the same price it's a better value to ship it from overseas.
Hope to keep this one for a while. Thanks for your thoughts
I don't want problems with the chain, but oil is very expensive here. I bought ~14L (15 quarts) of Mobil 1 EP 5W-30 from RockAuto in the USA, cost about $300 with shipping and import duty. I also bought some Mann 69/3X filters from Amazon.com, I think they were around $20 each with free shipping as part of a bigger order. That might seem expensive to the Americans but a 5L jug at Repco of Mobil 1 5W-30 is $150 normally, sometimes you can get it for as low as $100 on special, but for whatever reason the M1 sold here is GF-5, API SN/SM, vs. the newer formulations the Americans get. So for the same price it's a better value to ship it from overseas.
Hope to keep this one for a while. Thanks for your thoughts