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Mobil 1 extended mileage with a Napa Platinum filter, change it out every 12-15K miles. Seems to work just fine. Napa filters are great! I use MotorCraft in my Ford 6.0 Diesel but use Napa Gold filters in my wife's vehicle and got the bulk box of 12 on sale for ~$3.25/ea!!
Biden's most truthful quote ever came during his first press conference, 03/25/21. Drum roll please...... "I don't know, to be clear." and THAT is one promise he's kept!!!
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I changed to Mobil 1 after the first 3K on my Tacoma and its had nothing else since 2002. Changed every 5-6k, 230,000 miles later still running strong.
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Do any of you guys use synthetic oil in your vehicles ? I use it now so I don't have to change my valve cover gaskets quite so often. And I run mine MUCH harder than you could ever imagine!
The Mayans had it right. If you�re going to predict the future, it�s best to aim far beyond your life expectancy, lest you wind up red-faced in a bunker overstocked with Spam and ammo.
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Mobil 1 oil and Mobil 1 filter, 272,000+ miles so far.....
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson
We are all Rhodesians now.
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What chainsaw should I buy ?
Mike Stihl with 36" bar. That's what I've got but the wife complains that it's to heavy.....
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Penzoil Platinum or Mobil 1 is about the best you can get for the money. I typically run Purolator, Wix(Napa Gold) pr Motorcraft filters. I change oil and filter around 5k
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For those of you with mega-miles on your vehicle and regular oil changes have been performed, do you actually think it is becaused of the brand of oil used or the regular intervals of change?
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
GeoW, The "Unwoke" ...Let's go Brandon!
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My 2012 tundra came with synthetic oil.. Cheaper to drive with longer oil change times.. Still I change at less than 10,000 miles..
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Yep, no other way to go....
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If being stupid allows me to believe in Him, I'd wish to be a retard. Eisenhower and G Washington should be good company.
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I use Castrol Edge, formerly known as Syntech.
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I use to work with a fellow that would only change his filter every 5000 miles and add a quart of oil. He never kept a car past 200,000 miles so I can't tell you how that worked out in the looong run, but he never had any oil related trouble while he owned it.
My biggest fear is when I die my wife will sell my guns for what I told her they cost....
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For those of you with mega-miles on your vehicle and regular oil changes have been performed, do you actually think it is becaused of the brand of oil used or the regular intervals of change? Good question. I picked up an old (2003) Land Rover with 120,000 on it and so the high numbers others are quoting give mo hope that I can hang onto it for a while. Clear coat is shot and headlight covers need to be renewed, but the other issues (old seat vinyl, worn steering wheel, etc.) seem manageable and it has plenty of power. I definitely will try synthetic –– even if the valve cover gaskets leak, as they seem to be doing.
Norman Solberg International lawyer, lately for 25 years in Japan, now working on trusts in the US, the 3rd greatest tax haven. NRA Life Member for over 50 years, NRA Endowment (2014), Patron (2016).
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For those of you with mega-miles on your vehicle and regular oil changes have been performed, do you actually think it is becaused of the brand of oil used or the regular intervals of change? The intervals here, have never been exact, but have tried to be. The most miles is an explorer, 96, that has something over 350K miles on it now, ODO does not work, I have to guess at miles to change... synthetic since the first change... Its been going that way in the ohter vehicles so far too...
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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I use to work with a fellow that would only change his filter every 5000 miles and add a quart of oil. He never kept a car past 200,000 miles so I can't tell you how that worked out in the looong run, but he never had any oil related trouble while he owned it. People who claim to know have told me that the filter is the weak link in the system and that if they were more sophisticated, you could leave any kind of oil in forever, so that would make sense, not that I would do it.
"Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants". --- William Penn
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Campfire Kahuna
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I don't believe that ANY kind of oil could be indefinite, but its always the filter that clogs, just like any filter, that allows particals not to be stopped but to circulate and wear, at least from what I've researched a bit about em.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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I work in an industrial environment and have oil dist. reps in and out. They charge for oil samples but I asked him about automotive oil and he showed me how he's sent in samples from his company rig. He ran the oil for 25k, sampling every 2500 or 5k and he said even at 25k it still had enough additives and was clean enough to keep going a little longer. He changed it, but he said he goes 15k to 20k on his personal rig now.
“You never need fear a man, no matter what his size. When danger threatens, call on me, and I will equalize.” Samuel Colt.
�Common sense is genius dressed up in work clothes.� - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Dino-oil, Wix filter every 5 - 6 k with no issues.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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The reason I do synthetic with a high quality filter and long interval between oil changes is mainly the convenience of not having to take the vehicle in for oil changes all the time. We drive a lot.
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Dino-oil, Wix filter every 5 - 6 k with no issues. Filter only, Ed? No fresh dino juice other than to top off?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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