Hi Donald,
If you're using oil changes as the only excuse to look at your car thats
just....odd.
I actually change the oil at 6,000 but I have a 240D (read as high soot
producer) and don't do oil analysis. I really really should do analysis on my
Dodge pickup, I change the oil at 8k in that but I'm sure I could go more. Just
lazy I guess.
Oil analysis will actually tell you alot more about your engine than you can
learn just by looking at it, you'll get moisture content, if theres any coolant
contamination, what the wear metals are like. Caterpiller uses oil analysis to
tell amazing things about whats going on inside an engine and to tick off the
hours before a rebuild.
Anyway on the subject of the lady with the Aurora, I had a teacher in
highschool who did exactly the same thing, three times... Some people are
slower learners than others I guess. The other thing your lady probably didn't
do is ever add any oil. New cars consume some oil sometimes. It'd be
interesting to know exactly how much oil was actually in that engine. To
consume say 3 quarts in 20k isn't unbelievable, that would leave the car with
maybe 2 quarts left, 2 very hot quarts of oil...
I work in tech support, I can tell you alot about stupid people...
-Curt
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:01:40 -0500
From: "Donald Snook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Crazy to go 20K on any oil
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I don't even put 1000 miles on my car in a month. If you are driving
nearly 1800 miles a month I wouldn't change it every 3K either. I
would
probably change it every 7500. In my estimation (and it is just that)
I
think that regular oil changes with quality oil from 3-7500 (depending
on what conditions you drive in and the amount of time is the way to
go)are just a good idea.
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