Oil Change

by **Whatever** » Thu Oct 10, 2002 1:11 am

Solara1 wrote:3000 miles is optimal! I'm kinda late, I'm at 4000 miles. First oil change is due....hmmm will do today!

3000 miles for the first time?? how about second time??

by **ericatdallas** » Thu Oct 10, 2002 7:58 am

Second time should be 3k too or whatever the minimum specified by the owners manual.

It won't hurt to make the first oil change at 1k miles and it's cheap. Might as well do it.

by **Flipside909** » Fri Oct 11, 2002 1:19 am

Hey wrote:
Solara1 wrote:3000 miles is optimal! I'm kinda late, I'm at 4000 miles. First oil change is due....hmmm will do today!

3000 miles for the first time?? how about second time??

The second and third and etc...use the 3000-4000k mile rule of thumb. You will be okay.

by **Whatever** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 1:53 am

thanks for the answer..

by **NASTY** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 11:12 am

i change every 5000...
its what toyota reccomends

by **Flipside909** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 1:40 pm

NASTY wrote:i change every 5000...
its what toyota reccomends

3750 for severe conditions.

by **ericatdallas** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 9:07 pm

wow, I changed my oil today and it got everywhere. That was just a really bad place to put the oil filter. It was easy to access though, so I guess I shouldn't complain too much. But this was the first time I was under my car, and it seemed to have built up some grime from previous oil changes.

The guy/gal before me didn't change his oil much. Inside, there was a lot of goop in my engine. It was pretty bad in there. Maybe I should run my oil in extremely severe condition intervals (every 1000-2000 miles) just to have the oil's detergent take out some of it.

Hate to think the previous owner didn't take care of J. Lo

by **ericatdallas** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 9:15 pm

Oh, another thing on oil filters. We had a discussion on oil filters in class. My instructor says that some of those fancy expensive oil filters may actually cause harm. What happens is, if they have smaller pores, they end up restricting more flow and it blows a backup valve or something and you end up cycling unfiltered oil. He mentioned a study where they found cars using these filters were infact, doing that. He says you shuold pick a filter that keeps a good balance of filtering particles and keeping good flow. The best bet would be to buy the OEM filter.

He says, if it'll filter out anything smaller than .002 in. then it'll work just fine. (I think that was the particle size he mentioned).

He mentioned air filters too. He said, the same thing. More filtering material, the more you reduce flow.

Just passing it on for FYI if you cared or didn't already know.

by **Missay** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 9:27 pm

i just always get the cheap filters in the orange box..is the brand 'fram'?? i don't know..i just look up the car in the handy dandy book..find the # box..and bingo..works for me!!
filters on a college budget...beautiful.

by **ericatdallas** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 10:31 pm

I think I'm going to avoid Fram and spent an extra $1 on STP. I bought a Bosch this time around at $3 over the STP and I find out on a web site that they're made by the same company so probably the same filter too. Oh well. I know better next time.

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