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Assume that you are going to change your oil every 3000 miles.
If you have two cars and you alternate cars every day, (driving 16 miles to and from work)so that you wind up only putting 1,500 in three months on each car. Do you still need to change every three months or can you go 6-months on each car? It seems to me that the three month rule only applies if you drive your car foe short distances every day.
I use the 0W30 in one car, (onece a year filkter at 6 months) quite honestly, not worth the extra two bucks a quart. Same results as with the 10W30 in it before and with other ones that still use the 10W30.
Only if you live in extremely cold climates in the winter would I consider it again.
5w 30 or 0 - 30?
1) Pull up to Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches 3000 miles
since the last oil change
2) Drink a cup of coffee.
3) 15 minutes later, write a check and leave with a properly maintained vehicle.
Money spent:
* Oil Change $20.00
* Coffee $ 1.00
* Total $21.00.
Oil Change instructions for Men:
1) Go to auto parts store and write a check for $50.00 for oil, filter, kitty litter, hand cleaner and shop towels
2) Discover that the used oil container is full. Instead of taking it back to O'Reilly to recycle, dump in hole in back yard.
3) Open a beer and drink it.
4) Jack car up. Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands.
5) Find jack stands under kid's pedal car.
6) In frustration, open another beer and drink it.
7) Place drain pan under engine.
8) Look for correct size box end wrench!
9) Give up and use crescent wrench.
10) Unscrew drain plug.
11) Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil: get hot oil on you in the
process.
12) Clean up mess.
13) Have another beer while watching oil drain.
14) Look for oil filter wrench.
15) Give up; poke oil filter with screwdriver and twist off.
16) Beer.
17) Buddy shows up; finish case of beer with him. Finish oil change tomorrow.
18) Next day, drag pan full of old oil out from underneath car.
19) Throw kitty litter on oil spilled during step 18.
20) Beer. No, drank it all yesterday
21) Walk to 7-11; buy beer.
22) Install new oil filter making sure to apply a thin coat of oil to gasket surface.
23) Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine.
24) Remember drain plug from step 11.
25) Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan.
26) Discover that the used oil is buried in a hole in the back yard along with drain plug. (IDIOT!)
27) Drink beer.
28) Uncover hole and sift for drain plug.
29) Discover that first quart of fresh oil is now on the floor.
30) Drink beer.
31) Slip with wrench tightening drain plug and bang knuckles on frame.
32) Bang head on floorboards in reaction to step 31.
33) Begin cussing fit.
34) Throw wrench.
35) Cuss for additional 10 minutes because wrench hit Miss December(1992) in the left boob.
36) Beer.&! nbsp;
37) Clean up hands and forehead and bandage as required to stop blood flow.
38) Beer.
39) Beer
40) Dump in five fresh quarts of oil.
41) Beer.
42) Lower car from jack stands.
43) Accidentally crush one of the jack stands.
44) Move car back to apply more kitty litter to fresh oil spilled during step 23.
45) Beer.
46) Test drive car.
47) Get pulled over: arrested for driving under the influence.
48) Car gets impounded.
49) Make bail.
50) Get car from impound yard.
Money spent:
* Parts $50.00
* DUI $2500.00
* Impound fee $75.00
* Bail $1500.00
* Beer $25.00
* Total-- $4150.00
-- But you know the job was done right!
4) Pay tow truck $50 to have car towed to dealer for new engine bc oil lub expert at Jiffy forgot to put on drain plug (hung over from night before)
Unthinkable now even by them.
ever since i bought my 95 Altima, i didnt use the same type of oil at every oil change. One time i would use penzoil, while the other mobil and valvoline? A person that i know, a close freind, told me that that would mess up the engin b/c diffent oil brands have diffrent cleaning detergants, and that would cause stress for the engine if not using the same oil type. Is that true??? so far i havent had any problems, or anything diffrent in the sound or performance of the motor???
The funny thing is when i asked him why he thinks that, he said oil is oil and [non-permissible content removed] is [non-permissible content removed], but there are differences between each brand of..oil and [non-permissible content removed]..lol
BTW the board Police will prolly remove your police due to the "S". word. Edmunds is kind of straight laced here.
After using the fumoto on several cars for the past year it seems to drain the same amount as it did before the valve.