Oil change every 5k or 10k miles?
02-06-17, 08:14 PM
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Oil change every 5k or 10k miles?
When I bought my L/certified 2014 is250 I swore the sales guy told me oil change for my car is every 10k miles, but today I just got the maintenance required soon notification. When I look at the maintenance settings I notice it's set to notify every 5000 miles, so how do I determine when I should change my oil and the frequency?
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02-06-17, 08:25 PM
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02-06-17, 08:47 PM
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Taking the car in for check ups every 5,000 miles is recommended by Lexus but oil & filter changes are recommended every 10,000.
02-06-17, 11:08 PM
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Is there a way to find out when the last oil change was?
02-07-17, 12:04 AM
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i've change oil every 5000 miles along with other recommended services at lexus dealership
02-07-17, 07:28 AM
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I used to do it every 5k until I had it tested. Oil came back as having thousands more miles available, per Blackstone Labs. I now do every 7.5k
02-07-17, 07:35 AM
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I change my oil and filter every 5,000 miles also. It doesn't hurt to be safe. I rather maintain the engine as much as possible because reliability is why we all bought this car.
02-07-17, 08:56 AM
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We have lots of threads on this topic already, but I do the 10k oil changes, as recommended by Lexus.
02-07-17, 11:12 AM
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If my next maintenance suggested is 28k miles, would there be any issues if I wait to do the 30k miles service maintenance?
02-07-17, 11:14 AM
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10k for synthetic oil changes
02-07-17, 11:32 AM
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If my next maintenance suggested is 28k miles, would there be any issues if I wait to do the 30k miles service maintenance?
Instead at 5000 miles I showed up for my first service at 6300 miles since I was on a long road trip. Nobody cared.
02-07-17, 08:13 PM
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i change mine once a year. i don't drive much, about 6000 miles/year
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02-07-17, 10:35 PM
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I'm looking at the last 20k mile service printed and it says OIL-MOBIL 0W20 was used. Does that mean it's not synthetic?
02-08-17, 06:27 AM
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I'm looking at the last 20k mile service printed and it says OIL-MOBIL 0W20 was used. Does that mean it's not synthetic?
That's Synthetic Oil they used. Mobil 1 is good stuff.
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02-06-17, 08:14 PM
Oil change every 5k or 10k miles?
