Oil change mileage vs. age

Gene1949

Gene1949

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A little advice from the gray hairs please.
49 oil change service interval is 1year +10 months. Mileage is 480 miles. Ya, I know not driven enough. Oil is just off amber in color.
Opinions??
 
If it was mine, I would change it. Oil is cheap in the long run. Anyway, i always like to read the bottom of the drain pan.
 
I change mine when it dark brown but not black. I am running the stock filter and if it can't clean it it's time to change both oil and filter. When I've looked inside one of my engines after years and many thousands of miles they are still as clean as when I assembled them. Tim
 
If not in a climate controlled building condensation in engine can occur. This is one reason to change annually in the spring.

John
 
pistonbroke said:
I change mine when it dark brown but not black. I am running the stock filter and if it can't clean it it's time to change both oil and filter. When I've looked inside one of my engines after years and many thousands of miles they are still as clean as when I assembled them. Tim
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that is the way that I have been gauging my oil change interval. Although I'd like to hear what the gray hairs have to say. However that being said John is right if I lived an environment that had a lot of humidity I would probably change every year. Beings I live down next to Las Vegas it's pretty dry here and I don't have the condensation issues. Especially running a PCV system on a well-tune motor
 
I always heard that the oil should be changed in the fall/winter when the car is put up for the winter (for us northerners) so any contaminants from running it don't remain in the engine for all the down time.
 
With our clean new roads, Is a filter really necessary? Low mile drives and frequent changes. Newc
 
I guess my question would be what are you doing with the car now? If it's just going to sit in storage all winter I'd just assume leave it and change it in the spring at this point. If you want to start driving again maybe change it sooner? I'd let it ride if it still looks clean but I don't have grey hair.
 
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