[s-cars] Subject: ticking- should i worry?

[David Kase]

A lot of the oil change interval increases have been fueled by the car 
companies' attempt to appease the tree-huggers.  Larger interval means 
less waste oil.

Dave Kase
I recycle but will never be caught driving a Prius...



cody at 5000tq.com wrote:
> That's an easy one. Many of them don't - simple as that. Look at a  
> 1.8t thats had oil changes at the factory 10k, the inside of the valve  
> cover is pure gook and many of them have already blown up well shy of  
> 150k. Not only that but 150k isn't terribly difficult, but theres no  
> way a 10k oil change engine will match the 300,000+++ capability of  
> the older VAG engines.
>
> -Cody Forbes
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> Quoting Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com>:
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>   
>> how is it that the newer cars can go 15k-20k miles without an oil   
>> change or filter change, and still make it to 150k+ miles?  by now,   
>> there are a lot of them with 100k+ miles and no engine problems.
>>
>> maybe i'll let the oil go to 10k miles, and change the filter at 5k.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com>
>> To: Tom Winter <tom at freeskier.com>
>> Cc: cody at 5000tq.com; Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com>;   
>> "s-car-list at audifans.com" <s-car-list at audifans.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:09:35 AM
>> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Subject: ticking- should i worry?
>>
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>> With oil analysis, you can determine how long you should be keeping   
>> the oil in your engine before changing it- however, you do need to   
>> change the filter regularly.
>>
>> Some synthetics can go 15k w/o breakdown, but you still need to   
>> change the filter every 5k miles.
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>>
>> Taka
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