# Oil change every 10,000 miles?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/oil-change-every-10-000-miles/67017>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [August 10, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oil-change-every-10-000-miles/67017 "2011-08-10T20:41:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 6

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**Author:** ![PhillipNeuman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@PhillipNeuman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/PhillipNeuman)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oil-change-every-10-000-miles/67017/101 "2011-09-26T16:40:44Z")

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Whitey, let’s beat this topic into the ground and make the other readers beg for mercy.

I strongly suspect that when you are racing professionally you are not caught in traffic jams  
or confronted with traffic lights.

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**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oil-change-every-10-000-miles/67017/102 "2011-09-26T17:05:02Z")

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"By getting to work first…"  
Whitey-- In the next life, “the first shall be last and the last shall be first”. Maybe you should save up points for the next life and save gasoline in the process.

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**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oil-change-every-10-000-miles/67017/103 "2011-09-26T18:49:17Z")

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Phillip, I am not a professional race car driver. I used to drive a truck. Funny you should make that assumption though.

Triedaq, I tried to save gas by riding my motorcycle today. That’s what put me behind. Last night’s weather forecast said I would have clear skies this morning, so I took the cover off the motorcycle last night. I ran late because I had to put the cover back on the motorcycle before I headed out in the car. I will make up for the extra gas I used driving fast today by riding the motorcycle tomorrow, nice and slow. 😉

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**Author:** ![circuitsmith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/circuitsmith/32/40376_2.png) [@circuitsmith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/circuitsmith)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/oil-change-every-10-000-miles/67017/104 "2011-09-26T19:07:08Z")

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In the downtown area where I live you can go maybe 3 city blocks without a stop sign or light.  
And that’s the bigger arteries.  
You might gain a bit on time if you push it there, but I see plenty of people with their engines roaring to go one block to the next.  
And they gain a second or two per stop sign?

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