# How often to change oil?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-often-to-change-oil/3069>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [August 13, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-often-to-change-oil/3069 "2007-08-13T22:40:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![tguild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e56c9b/32.png) [@tguild](https://community.cartalk.com/u/tguild)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-often-to-change-oil/3069/21 "2007-08-16T16:06:53Z")

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The “Tappet Brothers” say that every 5,000 miles is good enough. I use and full synthetic and change at that interval.

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