What are the signs of oil viscosity breakdown ?
From what I am reading, the engine will run hotter, and the oil will thicken.
I drive my car on one long trip a year to see my parents . 140 there and back, so 280 miles.
Other than this, I will drive the car around two miles to the grocery store every couple of weeks.
And the car sits.
I start it for a few seconds to make sure the battery is still ok, and every so often top off my tires.
The last time I changed my oil was maybe two years ago.
Maybe even longer than that.
The oil looks like it should. Like a dark honey color, and it does not seem either thicker or thinner than normal oil.
It smells like normal dirty oil as well.
I think the last time I did the oil change, I use zero weight oil. 0-40 or whatever.
The car has around 140,000 miles on it - very few are mine.
I added half a quart of ( new ) 10-40w or 10w-50 around 4 months ago, since it looked slightly low.
The car seems to run fine so far.
What symptoms are going to show up by me not changing the oil ?
I notice the engine seens to warm up quite fast, but this could just be me being paranoid.
The rest of the time when driving the engine is at normal temp.
When driving on the highway, I get slightly higher than EPA, but I had a few aero mods on the car ( and now have even MWOOOOR ! ( never enough ! )
Is the engine going to suddenly sieze on me and then i dieeee ? Or is this not really something to care about. ( I don't care )
The car is a piece of crap, but has never let me down.
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