Most miles between oil changes?
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Most miles between oil changes?
What's the most miles you've gotten between oil changes?
I just hit 5,000 miles since my last oil change and the DIC says I still have 47% oil life remaining.
I just hit 5,000 miles since my last oil change and the DIC says I still have 47% oil life remaining.
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Mine normally hits a year now before it gets to the mileage limit. I've been on track for 10k miles had I pushed it to 0%.
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I always changed mine with no more than 4500 miles on the oil - simply because it would have been well over a year between changes if I waited until the oil life monitor said to change the oil. Just didn't drive the car enough I guess.
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Eviltwin,(former corvette engineer that was in on the OLM) has stated more than once to follow the OLM OR 1 year.. Sounds like that is what most here are following. Mine has dropped below 15% so I'll be changing this week as I'm going to take a little road trip soon,,and this fill has about 15 test and tune passes on it as well as 13 dyno pulls. I think it's due!!
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I've gone as high as 9000 miles on one oil change. On that one I reset the OLM when it hit zero and drove another 2000 miles. As always, I got an oil analysis done and it came back perfectly fine.
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My oil changes always get done in in the exact same place -- in my garage -- so there's zero miles between changes.
Oh, wait, that's not what you meant....
I really don't notice the mileage. I just do it when the DIC gets to 10%. I'd guess I'm averaging about 4K between changes -- I do a lot of short trips and around town driving.
Oh, wait, that's not what you meant....
I really don't notice the mileage. I just do it when the DIC gets to 10%. I'd guess I'm averaging about 4K between changes -- I do a lot of short trips and around town driving.
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Well, I just changed the oil and filter in my vette DIC was at 7% and mileage was at 7537. My vette is my DD so it gets a little stop and go traffic and some interstate in the during the drives between oil changes. It's a 2000 model, I don't know if they extended the oil life in 2001/2 or not to make to closer to 10K but mine has been close to 7500 each time the DIC has shown single digits for the Oil life.