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Originally Posted by Cxserver
Lots of things can happen in theat 1 year oil change.What about fuel dilution? Randomly going 12000 + kms because the oil "can" go that far, seems odd to me. I would at least get a oil analysis to check if damage is not being done to the engine. One thing to save $ but at what cost?
I did look around bobistheoilguy.com and a bunch of 1 year analysis shows that different engines cant just go that far.
I just follow my manual. 8000 kms on regular oil i get on sale. Costs $15 a change.
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Valid point. I kind of touched on that myself in an earlier post here a little. I run various blends of ethenol...which is known to dilute oil to a greater extent then e-free gas. most of us that intentionally run ethenol blends know the risks and tend to adjust their oil change intervals accordingly.
Of course lots of other things in your fuel will make it past your ring and dillute your oil over time. Some of these things are suspended in your oil as a solid and filtered out by the filter. Some of them are not.
If you don't feel comfortable going past the service change on you car, then don't. It's just not worth the headache of worrying about it. I just hope that in the future the perception shifts (along with the engineering in the engine and oil) to such that everyone can go a loooooong way on one crankcase of oil.
Oils getting mighty expensive (no matter the flavor: synthetic, conventional, etc) so I want to get my full use out of it.