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Originally Posted by Dunkler
This is not to say that you are wrong however... I know a guy who scoffed at the idea of EVER changing your oil. He drove a mid 90's GMC Jimmy for close to 300k miles on, literally, just a couple of oil changes... The motor did finally seize, but that's a load of miles on just a couple of oil changes. The guy is a surgeon here in Arkansas and he said that when he bought it he changed the oil and his wife took it to be serviced once, where naturally they changed the oil. He swears up and down that's the only times the oil was ever changed.
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I had a teacher in highschool who also claimed to only change his oil every 100k miles. Ran Mobil 1 synthetic and his little escort wagon rolled over the 300k mark when I was a senior. Of course this guy did commute 50 miles each way everyday so 99.9% of his miles were highway and he drove pretty slow. He also was adding a qt every month or so by the time I graduated but the car was going fine.
While I'll concede its possible to achieve such feats, I would never go that far myself. I think its all about finding a happy medium you are comfortable with and your car can agree with (not sieze up anyway).
This has really turned into a long and interesting discussion. There really is a wide and varied view on this oil change debate, but I think most of us probably fall somwhere in the middle. The 3k oil change will never become obsolete until all the Autozones in the world stop jamming it down all of our thoats.