So a woman who has no clue on oils went way over even a synthetic oil drain is in reference too what? If shows nothing but a woman who knows little on this subject. Again, the 3 or 5,000 miles are short of a money maker. 7,500 is what most call for using DINO oil. Most do not even read their book or know what they are "recommended" to do; not required. As your story as shown.
As I noted before using FOS, MTBF even the 7,500 is a thumb suck. Dino oil will last way over what businesses pimp (to make money). I can go almost triple that and be fine using Amsoil ASM. Look at my older posts for pix and UOA to proved data for that. That is based on UOA's, not a dummy manual nor based on non-functional real-world data. Hell, in the right car, Halovine can go almost 10K miles!
Then again, most people do not change there pcv, etc items and that is why they have problems, not oil.
Again, the 3 and 5K are there to make money; not to prevent anything. My point still stands, I have yet to see only one (here) that shows anything to support why they change there oil at some intervals and use some oil. The rest are blindly going at some interval and think they are fine. Why dump and oil that is only 60% used? As noted before, test the oil at the normal internal you THINK you need to. 100 to 1 you are wasting money. This is not even brand related. It still blows my mind that people spend all this money on cars and will not spend $20 to see what or how their engine is running and the bonus is oil duration/performance. But Lexus will wash your car for free for $129 for an oil change….<sad>
Chief, I'm only passing along experiences I've had and seen that pertain to oil changes. Most people simply don't give two shakes of a dead donkey's !Removed! about testing their oils and such, they just want to know what's a good oil to use, when to use it, and move on. I've posted the article about the guy with the Chevy hitting 1,000,000 miles with regular oil changes, I've posted stories about my mechanically inclined uncle who takes great care of his vehicles for several hundreds of thousands of miles, and I've passed along what a new Toyota with 10,000 miles on the same oil acts like. I got nothing else. The only dummy, wasteful, and stupid thing about when to change your oil, is going too long, period. My story is not about some girl who hasn't a clue, it's about a brand spanking new car with 10k on the clock already blowing blue smoke from the tail pipe, due to worn out oil. That's it, that's all, nothing more, nothing less. Me personally? If I'm going to spend $20 on something, it's going to come in a box, container, wrapper, with a receipt and generate positive results. To me, paying someone $20 bucks to tell me if I'm ready for an oil change seems more wasteful, then just getting it changed for $35 bucks in the first place, and then I KNOW it's good oil.
You do your thing, and I'll do mine. I don't know Amsoil, don't really care to. If it isn't readily available to me, then I don't need it. Too many other viable options out there.
NC, I totally agree with your statement, I couldn't have said it any better.
