Oil Change Question dont hate me I know do a search
#17
That's a perfect consensus , my car used to be serviced every 5,000 Km until recently when I went in for my 30,000 Km service the service advisor told me that they used " Lexus Oil " so the next service would be at 40,000 Km. So I guess I now know what that " Lexus Oil " is
#19
You can't go wrong following the manual...I change every 5K miles at a Toyota dealer near my house...they change the oil, top up all fluids, and put air in the tires... all for 40 bucks.
#20
Tech Info Resource
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OCI is like religion - almost always faith based and only rarely based on objective data.
Objective data for 250/350
Objective data for IS-F
Pick your poison.
Objective data for 250/350
Objective data for IS-F
Pick your poison.
#21
#24
Lexus Fanatic
iTrader: (1)
OCI is like religion - almost always faith based and only rarely based on objective data.
Objective data for 250/350
Objective data for IS-F
Pick your poison.
Objective data for 250/350
Objective data for IS-F
Pick your poison.
Like I said a couple months ago in this thread-
As always, UOA is the only way to know if you're changing too often, or not often enough, for your car under your driving conditions... but that said, based on a ton of previous UOAs from various people my advice is:
Barring severe duty driving (lots of short trips where the engine never runs at operating temp, or a ton of idling) changing every 5k miles is simply too often, based on every used oil analysis I've ever seen on a 2IS, regardless of type of oil used.
7500-10k miles for conventional.... 12-15k miles for any decent synthetic (and probably longer with something like Amsoil)... though I'd probably change the filter halfway through on the synthetic fill... maybe as much as twice if I wanted to run Amsoil to 25k in a year.... (might get to avoid the syn filter change running to 12-15k if you get the synthetic media filter from TRD though, you'd need some UOA with it to try it out and I haven't seen any on that).
#30
Super Moderator
No, the light and persistent message on the display don't show up until 5K. From 4.5K to 5K, it displays a message for a few seconds after starting the car.