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Hey guys,

Got my 16 silverado 5.3 v8 in december of 19 only one owner before me good maintenance records. I noticed today the oil change sticker had 2-6-20 or 69000 miles when I got the truck it had 64000 and some change now it has 65000 and some change. My question is should I go by the date or milage? It takes 10 mins to get to work one way and other than that I usually only drive 45 mins from home every 2 weeks or so. So I'm not constantly on the go but was wanting to see what you guys thought, in my old trucks I changed oil every 3500 or so but this is my new baby and the newest vehicle I've owned everything else was like 90 models haha. So let me know yalls opinion. Thanks

 

txab Senior Enthusiast

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If 3500 worked for you before, go with that, since you feel comfortable with it. You don't say how many miles annually you're driving. But I've got two vehicles that don't get driven much. One I change annually, but anytime it is run I put some miles on it. No short trips. It averages about 6k-7k per year.

 

The other is driven much like you describe. Daily, short trips. This vehicle gets semi-annual changes, which works out to about 3k to 4k per change.

 

Other vehicles of mine that get 12k to 15k average a 5k interval

 

One way to know about interval would be to have an oil analysis performed

 

In the end do what you feel comfortable with. Choose whatever oil you feel comfortable with. Plenty of good quality synthetics out in many brands, available off the shelf locally. You can of course purchase Amsoil, Redline, etc.. that are 100% synthetic.

 

Again spend what you feel comfortable spending. Choose what ever top name brand oil you like. Use your current interval not exceeding 5k, imo. The maybe have an analysis done.

 

And now let the endless oil debates begin,

 

 

Mike GMC Enthusiast

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If it were my truck, I'd change it now so I know exactly my when it was done and what's in it.  From there, with your apparent annual mileage, I'd change it every 6 months or 5000 miles.  Otherwise, the advice above is very good.

Grumpy Bear Senior Enthusiast

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Given your daily commute and goals 3,000 - 3,500 miles sounds about right. Given that frequency I could get real happy with something like Valvoline Full Synthetic Advanced or Castrol GTX Magnatec or something like that. It's hard to make a bad pick if you stick with a 'known' Dexos 1 Gen 2.  

 

Everyone here knows I'm a Red Line guy ( I see heads :shakehead: ) BUT even I use oils like Peak Full Synthetic in my short hop salt car. 

 

See now, that wasn't so hard, was it? :) 

Mileguru Enthusiast

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My free oil changes are all used up. Is it worth paying for an oil change on these trucks or should I do it myself?

Meaning is everything easy to get to, drain, and replace?

txab Senior Enthusiast

txab

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As long as you don't mind getting a little dirty and you have a decent place to work

Bob2C Enthusiast

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My free oil changes are all used up. Is it worth paying for an oil change on these trucks or should I do it myself?
Meaning is everything easy to get to, drain, and replace?


If you can do it yourself this way you know it’s done right and you can use the oil you want.


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2 minutes ago, txab said:

As long as you don't mind getting a little dirty and you have a decent place to work

That's always been the problem - not worth getting oil all over my driveway. Thankfully, my new house has a great spot on the side of the house to do it. So the 6.2L 8-speed setup is easy to get to the filter and plug, and it drains easy?

SirenRed16 Senior Enthusiast

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My free oil changes are all used up. Is it worth paying for an oil change on these trucks or should I do it myself?
Meaning is everything easy to get to, drain, and replace?
I'd say it's a pretty easy job. These trucks sit so high I would just crawl under, now the truck is lowered so I do have to put a jack down there but even then then it's a 20-25 minute job.

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Here is a good video. Basically all the same.




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