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Standing idle oil pressure increases are 'the norm', when moving from 0w20 to 5w30.
Valvoline Restore and Protect 2003 Tahoe 5.3 228,000 miles initial observations
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From what I can gather, the MM goes buy how you drive and mileage. If I drive mostly highway, the percentage decreases more slowly but as soon as we start adding in those short trips to the store, school, etc... it starts to drop more quickly. When my wife was driving the car to work every day, which is 40+ miles each way, we were changing the oil at 5k but the MM was around maybe 50-60%. Now that we have kids, do a bunch of short trips on top of her driving it to work a few days a week, I'm lucky if I can get to 7500 without it being at 0 or in the negative miles.
It does this regardless of oil used. I had Amsoil SS and HPL Premium in there and it was always the same as when we were using M1 from the dealer or Kirkland.
It does this regardless of oil used. I had Amsoil SS and HPL Premium in there and it was always the same as when we were using M1 from the dealer or Kirkland.
That's because most maintenance minders are based on an algorithm from known data the at the computer collects such as the miles driven, engine temp, engine run time and sometimes fuel burnt. I read somewhere that some high end Mercedes use an optical sensor to determine particulates in the engine oil, but they are outliers.
@WheyDowns how are things going with VRP now?
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Well...funny you should ask. I was about to post a 1000 mile update.
Pulled in the garage this evening at 999.7. Let her sit for about an hour and pulled the stick. I'm down half a quart. I'll do another update at 1500. Sorry the updates are a little slow. It's my daily and I only live 5 miles from work.
Absolutely understand and thank you for the update! On the one OCI with our Mazda it did use a little oil as well, heard that it is common and settles down after a bit.
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