Modern oils can do more like 40k km in a healthy engine.
Worst I’ve done and this wasn’t intentional but rather me being in a deeply unhealthy relationship where my ex made me drive around a lot (10k km a month if not more) and didn’t leave me any money for oil changes (all of it was my money, but she got pregnant so it all became her money) so that car did over 60k km on one oil change. Car is still driving around a few years later, just not in my ownership.
With fully synthetic oils, tighter tolerances, and cleaner running engines there are many cars that are easily going to make it to a year or 10k miles without serious degradation of the oil.
Things like tire rotations should still be done more often. And there are ways to check/test oil for degradation if you don’t believe manufacturer recommendations.
This is opposite from what I’ve heard. Dealerships make a killing on their service department, so they say you need oil change every 8k when in reality 10k is probably fine.
And you should cut that in half. 5k max. Auto Manufactures are only interested in your vehicle making it to the end warranty.
Modern oils can do more like 40k km in a healthy engine.
Worst I’ve done and this wasn’t intentional but rather me being in a deeply unhealthy relationship where my ex made me drive around a lot (10k km a month if not more) and didn’t leave me any money for oil changes (all of it was my money, but she got pregnant so it all became her money) so that car did over 60k km on one oil change. Car is still driving around a few years later, just not in my ownership.
The oil itself isn’t the issue.
With fully synthetic oils, tighter tolerances, and cleaner running engines there are many cars that are easily going to make it to a year or 10k miles without serious degradation of the oil.
Things like tire rotations should still be done more often. And there are ways to check/test oil for degradation if you don’t believe manufacturer recommendations.
This is opposite from what I’ve heard. Dealerships make a killing on their service department, so they say you need oil change every 8k when in reality 10k is probably fine.