In winter time if I ran in eco mode all the time the car would burn around 90 gallons over the distance of an oil change. If I ran it in sport mode all the time which I don't I would burn about 10 gallons more. It gets ran maybe half the time in sport mode, at most, so let's say that uses 5 additional gallons.
So around 5 gallons of gas burned nearly doubles my winter oil change distance. An oil change takes an hour and costs nearly $50 using penzoil platinum, the oil thats created from natural gas and a wix oil filter.
Seems woth it to me.
In summer I occasionally put it in sport mode on the highway and when I get to town switch it over to eco mode and run on battery power pretty much the entire time to conclude business. Very minimal impact on fuel economy over all.
That keeps the fuel in oil down to around 1% and gets me to the full 7,000 miles no problem. If I run it in eco mode all the time the summer time oil change gets cut to 5,000 or 6,000 miles.
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1989 firebird mostly stock. Aside from the 6-speed manual trans, corvette gen 5 front brakes, 1LE drive shaft, 4th Gen disc brake fbody rear end.
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