3,000 or not...
Sep. 14th, 2010 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzUgh... substitute Mondays sucketh...
I was reading Yahoo News the other morning and there was a story about oil changes for cars and how the 3,000 mile limitation may be something of a myth these days. With improvements in oil and cars in general, motor oil actually lasts much longer, but oil change places naturally continue to promote that oil should be changed every 3,000 miles.
When I bought my Toyota Corolla back in 2007, I read through the manual (yeah, I'm one of those that do that) and noted that it recommended the changes every 7,000 miles (I think... I read it, but didn't memorize it). It struck me as odd that they'd recommend going that long between changes.
Do you change every 3,000 or so, or have you started expanding it out to longer stretches?
I was reading Yahoo News the other morning and there was a story about oil changes for cars and how the 3,000 mile limitation may be something of a myth these days. With improvements in oil and cars in general, motor oil actually lasts much longer, but oil change places naturally continue to promote that oil should be changed every 3,000 miles.
When I bought my Toyota Corolla back in 2007, I read through the manual (yeah, I'm one of those that do that) and noted that it recommended the changes every 7,000 miles (I think... I read it, but didn't memorize it). It struck me as odd that they'd recommend going that long between changes.
Do you change every 3,000 or so, or have you started expanding it out to longer stretches?
