30,000 mile oil

Rave Racer Ravewar at home.com
Wed Jan 24 03:44:22 EST 2001


        Maybe for you, but I do it myself and use synthetic, considerably
increasing the cost to over $50 Canadian for me.  I'm rounding an engine
swap in the next five years, or two if you drive as much as me.  If this
miracle oil lasts 30000 miles under normal conditions instead of the 5000
that mine does, then if I changed my oil with it every 10000 then I could be
saving myself alot of hassle if it really does what it says.  Is it worth
it?

> Here are the numbers: Oil change every 30,000 miles at the jiffy lube
> (ugh!) means five oil changes in 150,000 miles - (we presume the engine
> came with oil already in it at 0 miles). At $20 per oil change, that's
$100.
>
> Oil change every 5,000 miles means 29 oil changes in 150,000 miles, at $20
> each, total $580.
>
> $480 is cheap insurance for 150,000 miles of engine life! With oil changes
> every 5,000 miles, the cost of new oil is about 1/3 of a cent per mile
> driven. If you can't afford that, you need to break out the roller skates!
>
> Remember - oil is cheap, engines aren't. How much does the head cost on a
> 20 valve I-5? Now how much to rebuild the bottom end?
>





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