My daughter has a 2016 Camry 4 cylinder that gets very little milage; the driving she does is a mixture of city and highway. The maintenance guide recommends chaining the oil every 5K miles or 6 months, whichever comes first. It takes 0W-20 oil, so it has to be synthetic. Given this, why the 6 month…

Oil and oil change frequency is an unneccesarily contentious issue. You make an absurd arguement when you drive the change interval to 3 months or 3K, 1 month or 1K. Those of us that use the line… oil is cheaper than a new engine… and I do, are only trying to tell you to err on the more conservativ…

[image] ptesterman_156278: Oil breaks down with use and does degrades over time. My question was essentially given equivalent use, why would it degrade more quickly in a Camry than it does in an Odyssey or an Audi? Be careful picking Audi as an example to follow, as they are well known for th…

[image] thegreendrag0n: Be careful picking Audi as an example to follow, as they are well known for their timing chain getting worn prematurely. … and also for consuming oil VERY quickly.

[image] Mustangman: You make an absurd arguement when you drive the change interval to 3 months or 3K, 1 month or 1K. Those of us that use the line… oil is cheaper than a new engine… and I do, are only trying to tell you to err on the more conservative side if in doubt. Yes, it was intentiona…

[image] ptesterman_156278: and not drive the car hard, also reducing wear I would not go that far… I drive my cars very hard. My Mustang with 75K on the odo does track days regularly and gets one oil change a year… and my OLM never reaches lower than 40%. My truck was used to tow 9300 lbs (5…

[image] ptesterman_156278: How does the oil affect the timing chain? The chain is outside the engine and doesn’t touch the oil. Then how does it receive lubrication? :thinking:

[image] ptesterman_156278: For the people making these arguments, why don’t you change your oil monthly? Actually I did change the oil in my Riviera every month when I was driving 3000 miles a month. Dang thing only made it to 520,000 miles though. It wasn’t the engine though that had never…

[image] ptesterman_156278: As you state, everyone has anecdotal experiences but if I play devil’s advocate, the fact that a car makes it to 200k miles getting oil changes every 6 months doesn’t prove that they wouldn’t get that much milage getting the oil changed every 12 months. Here’s an an…

[image] bing: My frugal neighbor only washed his new car when it was raining to save water. I’m doing the same, and not to save water, but to get a benefit of no-spot rinse with free distilled water :slight_smile:

[image] circuitsmith: FWIW, I’ve changed the oil in my last 3 cars every 5000 miles or 12 months, typically 9 months. That’s pretty much what I do with my Corolla. My daily commute is 9 miles each way with a stretch of 3 miles where the speed limit is 40 mph and there are minimal traffic ligh…

Oil Change Interval for 0W-20 oil

Maintenance/Repairs

keith August 21, 2020, 12:14am 32

It says 100k on the bottle, but the owners manual does not specify a change interval, only check it every 30k miles.

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Oil Change Interval for 0W-20 oil

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