What are ya'll doing for oil changes?

[Philipgonzales3]

9 hours ago, KCU Beor said:

Did the first myself at ~900 miles with Mobil 1 / Wix XP filter. Filter and plug are super easy to access - as opposed to my Accord where the filter is sideways and halfway up the bay. I plan on doing it myself every 5 - 7500 miles. As with my wife's car, I rotate the tires as well during that service.

Question on rotation for the 1500s...Do you all / dealers do front-to-back, X-pattern? Also looking at jack points...I'd love to get the whole vehicle off the ground...what do you do at home? I was thinking about getting 4 bottle jacks to place on each corner, but that sounds a little excessive.

Going to go with this patten mentioned on page 392 of my owners manual.  Haven't done it yet as my truck only has 775 miles on it currently but plan to jack up the truck at the rear diffential and put jack stacks on the axle.  For the fronts, I will just jack up at the factory jack points on the frame near the front tires one at a time.  

 

[Philipgonzales3]

9 hours ago, Gangly said:

I just changed mine last week and used Mobil 1 Full Synthetic and a Fram filter.  Fram has a filter specifically designated for use with full synthetic oil, though I'm not sure it really does anything different than a regular filter.

 

Has anybody tried the K&N oil filters?  They are crazy expensive but I know nothing about them?

I've always heard fram was bottom of the barrel as far as oil filters goes.  Probably only for their regular filter.  Not too familiar with the different filters out there.  Maybe this syntethic one is better?  I'm thinking of going Penzoil Ultra and AC Delco oil filter.  My rationale for this is Mobile 1 is hard to find on Amazon and it's more expensive.  Penzoil ultra meets the spec, I've even heard supertech is really great oil but don't want to chance it myself lol.  And I belive AC delco is OEM or what the dealers use or something like that.  Good enough for me I suppose.  Plan to do first one at 1K and then at 5K, and every 5K thereafter.

[Philipgonzales3]

11 hours ago, Belo said:

7.5k full synthetic changes with whatever the advance oil change special is.

 

These aren't race cars, as long as you're not putting generic walmart oil in there, and honestly even then... any decent brand will do you just fine.

From what I've read, which admittedly hasn't been a whole lot, is that supertech is actually really good oil.  Meets all the specs and is made by some Warran oil company or something like that who have been making oil for like a billion years or something.  I still wouldn't run it in my truck but just sharing what I've read lol.

[UGADawgs]

Free dealer change at 5k. Then I did fumoto valve, AC Delco filter and Supertech (Walmart) 0w-20 at 10k and 15k mi. Next change at 20k mi going with Kirkland (Costco) 0w-20. Both oils made by Warren. BITOG site, various other forums, and half dozen youtube videos are enough for me that after 10yrs of using Pennzoil Platinum and Mobil1, I'm good with Warren from Walmart or Costco. $25/10qts yeah.

[OnTheReel]

1 hour ago, Philipgonzales3 said:

I've always heard fram was bottom of the barrel as far as oil filters goes.  Probably only for their regular filter.  Not too familiar with the different filters out there.  Maybe this syntethic one is better? 

The Fram Ultra is one of the best filters on the market, if not the best. I use them on all of the vehicles I maintain. 
 

The orange Extra Guard cans are the crap that soiled the Fram name, but the rest of their lineup is solid.

[Philipgonzales3]

6 minutes ago, OnTheReel said:

The Fram Ultra is one of the best filters on the market, if not the best. I use them on all of the vehicles I maintain. 
 

The orange Extra Guard cans are the crap that soiled the Fram name, but the rest of their lineup is solid.

Ah OK.  Thanks for the clarification.  I figured it was something like that.  How's the AC delco or should I try the Wix.  I know it's silly but I don't want to run Fram just because of the name.  Lol

[BassNBrew]

I do my own oil changes, started at 1500 miles with Mobile 1 Extended. 15K lifespan supposedly.

I changed it at 8500 anyway and sent the oil out to be tested. Should have the results pretty soon, I'm really curious to see how many miles are left on the oil. 

[BossTaco2020]

11 hours ago, OnTheReel said:

The orange Extra Guard cans are the crap that soiled the Fram name, but the rest of their lineup is solid.

Can confirm! I had a Fram Extra Guard fail on the first drive after I changed the oil in my 2012 F150 EcoBoost. Splattered oil all over the road. Came back home, went back under the engine, and it was snug as a bug, just leaking out of the seal. Put a pan under it, drove the (ex)wife's minivan back to Advanced Auto and grabbed a Puralator and haven't looked at Fram since. The Fram Ultra's may be the best ever and solve world hunger and cure cancer, but I'll never buy another Fram again. Puralator has never let me down and I'll continue pay the price premium.

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[loud_pipes]

Oil filter internals - comparison

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[Andyh1]

Oil filter internals - comparison





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One of the best videos I've seen on oil filters.. I do like Wix..

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[Wintersun]

I go by the DIC recommendation as it takes into consideration my driving patterns. Huge difference between driving 5,000 miles with lots of short trips in traffic and averaging 25 mph and someone else driving 5,000 miles with it 90% long trips on the freeway and averaging 50 mph. The short trip driver is putting twice as many hours of engine operation on the motor oil. The DIC takes those differences in calculating change times for the oil and the fuel filters.

 

Something very few consumers know and even fewer understand is that a filter is least effective when it is new and before any loading of the media has taken place. The more often a filter is changed (air, fuel, oil) the more time is spent without optimum filtration.

[Black02Silverado]

On 8/26/2020 at 11:31 PM, Andyh1 said:

Thank you, I will definitely look into it and reach out to Nick.

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Andy, I can help out with your AMSOIL needs.  Just let me know what you are looking for and I can get a quote out to you.

 

I do early oil changes on all my new vehicles.  Start at 500 miles, then 1,500 miles and then at 3,000 miles.  From there I go the distance.  Like on our 2016 Suburban I'm doing 15k oil changes with AMSOIL's Signature Series 0w-20 and an EaO17 AMSOIL filter.  I plan on doing the same with my truck. 

[UGADawgs]

On 8/27/2020 at 9:41 PM, OnTheReel said:

The Fram Ultra is one of the best filters on the market, if not the best. I use them on all of the vehicles I maintain. 
 

The orange Extra Guard cans are the crap that soiled the Fram name, but the rest of their lineup is solid.

Thanks, now really considering the Fram Ultra when I run out of the few factory filters we have for each of our vehicles.

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[Andyh1]

Andy, I can help out with your AMSOIL needs.  Just let me know what you are looking for and I can get a quote out to you.
 
I do early oil changes on all my new vehicles.  Start at 500 miles, then 1,500 miles and then at 3,000 miles.  From there I go the distance.  Like on our 2016 Suburban I'm doing 15k oil changes with AMSOIL's Signature Series 0w-20 and an EaO17 AMSOIL filter.  I plan on doing the same with my truck. 

Thanks Nick, sent you a PM

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[Grumpy Bear]

23 hours ago, loud_pipes said:

Oil filter internals - comparison
 

 

 

 

It is important that the filter say in one piece. Granted. But a filter needs to....well....filter and nothing in these types of videos tells you anything about how well it does it's job. Nope, not even the amount of measured filter media. 

 

You could send filters off until your blind to a testing service but you would go broke. Those are expensive test. 

 

What you can do is test your oil for cleanliness. ISO 4406 and ask for the raw data not just the code. It's a log scale so the code is a woodsman's ax in a service that requires a scalpel to parse.