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Do You Wait For The Oil Change Reminder In Your GM?

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swathdiver Senior Enthusiast

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18 minutes ago, i82much said:

i beat my vehicles senseless, never change anything except the radio station, then i trade them in to let the next poor sap deal with whatever issues i caused.



Hey Pop, I didn't know you were on here!  LOL

 

My father never maintained his cars once his boys got old enough to do it for him but he neglected to ask us often.  His '80 Olds 88 froze up and wouldn't start, it had been 34,000 miles since its last oil change.  I forget how much gas and oil we poured in and out of that motor to get it running again, but we did!  We started putting his cars on Mobil One after that.  Years later I caught him at 23,000 between oil changes on his '93 Olds but it was fine, Mobil One.

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diyer2 Senior Enthusiast

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39 minutes ago, i82much said:

i beat my vehicles senseless, never change anything except the radio station, then i trade them in to let the next poor sap deal with whatever issues i caused.

Nice guy.:puke:

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Grumpy Bear Senior Enthusiast

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i82much says "i beat my vehicles senseless, never change anything except the radio station, then i trade them in to let the next poor sap deal with whatever issues i caused".

 

Y R U here then?

 

3K Group I/II fluids on the used and well worn high milers I use as 'salt cars' and  I'm not sure of the history on. 

5K and Group III  fluids on the ones I'm sure we will trade. I.E. wife's cars. Nobody I hate enough to treat like he who eats 2 much. 

5K and Group IV/V fluids on the keepers and collectors. 

i82much Enthusiast

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1 hour ago, Grumpy Bear said:

i82much says "i beat my vehicles senseless, never change anything except the radio station, then i trade them in to let the next poor sap deal with whatever issues i caused".

 

Y R U here then?

 

I have a used truck I want to sell.  It's got 40k miles on it, really cherry.  Interested?

 

Come on, man.  It was a joke.  Although there are a lot of people out there like that, and it is worth remembering that whenever you consider buying used. 

 

On my new stuff, I follow the owner's manual and get the oil changed at a shop.  On my old junk, I do the oil changes myself.  I use use zinc additive and cheap 5w30 in the flat tappet 396, and VR1 10w30 in the hydraulic roller Pontiac 505.  

Logan Lanfear Enthusiast

Logan Lanfear

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22 hours ago, OZRY83 said:

 

On the one truck i have that has it, I have been going by it. Try and do it before it reaches 5% if have the weekend off. Other trucks i ran to 5000 max but between 3-5000 was average time. 88 K2500 i hated doing because oil filter laid on side and couldn't fill up all the way so every time i started after filter change was just watching pressure gauge....

  

The reason the oil filter lays on its side is because it doesn't circulate through the filter before it goes through the engine.  When the filter is mounted vertically, the pump sends oil directly to the filter then through the engine itself.  When its mounted horizontally, it goes through the engine first then to the filter.  It wouldn't be bad for your engine at all to run with this filter dry.  

OZRY83 Enthusiast

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Well I know how rushed these trucks were built and designed to get out on market. Worked at chevy dealer when they came out in march or april of 1987. And this filter housing was just a bolt on adaptor to where the filter would have been a vertical. Just a vertical filter would have been hit by the drive shaft to front differential.

   You sure they redirected oil flow?

Loco-diablo Senior Enthusiast

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My dealer gives free oil changes, tire rotations and batteries for as long as you own the vehicle. I bring it in when oil life gets to 20%


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Gearhead1000 Enthusiast

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I did some research and up in Canada I could only find mobil 1 0-20w with the dexos certification. I change at 5k miles and use gm filters. I wanted a full synthetic oil and the mobil 1 was the only one I could find. The oil life indicator shows around 50% when I reach 5k miles. I don't think it has a viscosity meter built in and goes off mileage but I don't know for sure.

OZRY83 Enthusiast

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Hey Gear head, I used to live in Calgary.

 

 

Can def see why need a 0-20W oil up there. Is that showing as miles or kilometers on odometer? Guessing it depends on if truck was sold in Canada originally or US.

Gearhead1000 Enthusiast

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it's in km. So I change @ 7000-7500 km. And summer with towing I will watch the level and see but so far no consumption. I added a catch can also and am waiting to see what comes out of there.

migizi Enthusiast

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I change mine between 3k and 4k

As far as the filter...we all have filter we trust - mine is Wix when its not GM

I have never heard of engine failure due to changing oil too often, but I have heard of failures related dirty oil ( and less than acceptable filters)

 

Additionally, With GM's Dexos requirement - this helps eliminate some bad choices for the uneducated, as many cheap oils were too readily avail in the past.

sdeeter19555 Senior Enthusiast

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I don't know if I stated it before, but I change my oil sooner now because I have some miles on the truck...oil used to be just a dark brown when I changed it at the OLM 0%, now it's black in the first thousand miles and I change at 5k mile intervals. Not that oil color has any indicator of oil condition, but it's a nice round number.

I also change my wife's car's oil more frequently in winter because she idles a lot at the bus stop waiting for the kid. I do 5k in summer and 3k in winter...oil has a lot of fuel odor when changed.

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GPGuy Senior Enthusiast

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Typically not. I usually change mine about 5,000 - 7,000 miles. 

Logan Lanfear Enthusiast

Logan Lanfear

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The indicator on the family old 2008 Yukon Denali with the 6.2 would seem to be all over the place.  We always went with conventional oil and filter at 3k intervals.  Sometimes we would still have 70% of the oil life remaining.  Other times it was 40%.  It didn't always seem to reset correctly after an oil change.  Engine ran great and didnt burn or leak at 105k when we traded it in.  

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