Time degrades oil just like miles. 5k/6 month oil changes for me, period.

 

You guys might say i'm wasting money, but I like to keep it at either 3 months/ 3k miles whichever comes first. I'm lenient and usually go 3 and a half months then do the oil change, cause i don't drive my car a lot.

 

Every 5k. Which is half of what the manual says. IMO, any more frequent is a waste of money. Any longer, is Russian Roulette..
I've owned a bunch of cars and trucks over the years and this seems to have worked. My motorcycles, around 4k or a year, whchever
comes first.

 

You go ahead and sludge your motor, I'll gladly spend 60 bucks every 6 months, oil is cheap motors aren't.

 

What a stupid comment.

 

Plus, if you’re getting an oil change for 60 bucks these days, no wonder you have “sludge”. Doesn’t read required quality synthetic in my book.

 

Actually its valvoline maxlife synthetic, good oil. You make idiotic assumptions, name calling is really mature. I pay 30 bucks for the oil and 30 for the labor. Nobody has ever called anyone an idiot for changing oil every 5k miles, lmao.


Go look up the car care nut on youtube, he had a camry motor that was destroyed by 10k oil changes. Go read your owners manual, under "severe" conditions, which is city driving, Lexus recommends 5k oci.

I just took a peek under the oil cap, it's very clean.

 

Name calling? I said it was a stupid statement. I know my manual inside out, always have. I’ve looked inside my motor with a scope for that matter. Clean as it was new. No sludge here.

 

Keep things polite & mature please

 

How was it a stupid statement? I'd bet most Toyota techs would recommend 5k oci despite what Toyota says. What's dumb is screwing around with the most vital fluid over 60 bucks. You do you and I'll do me, I'll never go 10k on an oci.

 

I’ll never go over 5k either. Who said 10k?

 

Bought my RC new in '17. Had it for almost 7 years. Always did 10K oil changes. Never had an issue. Used Mobil 1 fully synthetic each time.

 

Same here. In my ES300, GS300, IS250, IS350 and now my RC350. Each had at least 125k miles when I traded up except my current RC with 26k. Always used full synthetic Mobil 1 and an OEM Toyota Filter. Never had any issues with my engine here in Chicago with extreme winter and summer conditions.

 

Damage from 10k oil changes doesn't show up until 150k miles. Blackstone doesn't tell you what's going on with piston rings. The car care nut on youtube highlighted a camry that was destroyed from 10k oil changes, 140k miles and drinking oil.

 

My ES was sold with 300k and my GS was at 230k. They were tanks. Not saying you're wrong, but that wasn't my experience. I closely keep an eye on my oil color and viscosity when under my hood cleaning my engine bays and I've never had dark oil or sludge.