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I get your point, I ask myself this all the time. I do own a Prius and a Fusion Hybrid that my wife and I drive on a daily basis. I recycle and collect rain water...call me what you like. I also love F1, own a Ducati 888 Ltd. and will take possession of a C7 in a few weeks. If all this makes me a hypocrite so be it. I am trying to balance between be environmentally responsible and still enjoy life. I apologize if I offended anyone.
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I would go halfway, at 50% oil life. I don't believe you need to do it as early as 1000 miles, however I also don't believe it's a good idea to take it right to 0% on the monitor, because that 0% oil life value is based on a fully broken in engine that doesn't have the higher level of wear particles like you are going to get on a new engine. I highly doubt it's done this way yet, but GM should really recalibrate the oil life monitor so that it counts down to zero much quicker when the car has under 10,000 miles on it.
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This may appear to be a dumb question but I'm from the old school where I would change the oil in a new car after the first thousand miles. However, with synthetic oil and the dry sump with more oil, is it a waste of money or is it good for the engine? Just need some input from other Corvette owners.
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Either change it early or change it at the scheduled/recommended interval. Anything else makes no sense. The particulate matter accumulates early in the engine lifecycle - once you're at 1000 miles presumably the parts that are going to break in will have done so and particulate matter in the oil will be at its highest level. Any more and you are just allowing that matter to circulate through the engine.
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Either change it early or change it at the scheduled/recommended interval. Anything else makes no sense. The particulate matter accumulates early in the engine lifecycle - once you're at 1000 miles presumably the parts that are going to break in will have done so and particulate matter in the oil will be at its highest level. Any more and you are just allowing that matter to circulate through the engine.
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This may appear to be a dumb question but I'm from the old school where I would change the oil in a new car after the first thousand miles. However, with synthetic oil and the dry sump with more oil, is it a waste of money or is it good for the engine? Just need some input from other Corvette owners.
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