Comment on Keep Tabs On Your Vehicle’s Needs With LubeLogger

CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• asap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  smartphone app

  It’s a PWA, just install the site on your phone as a native app. I’ve been using it for about a year.

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• rebelflesh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I do that, jeep 3k miles a new change and I do use the synthetic one that is rated for 20k miles, I’ve had it since 2011 she runs like new.

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  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I know it’s “cheap insurance,” and I’ll never convince you otherwise (nor do I intend to – you do you), but it’s really just a waste of money/oil with modern synthetics. Even if you stretched it out to just 5k you’d be saving almost half as much oil/money while maintaining the same protection. Using a quality filter (factory OEM, Wix) is important too.

    I’ve put around 180k miles on my Toyota in the last 9 years with 9k-10k intervals and it runs great as well with a sparkling interior under the valve cover.

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    • rebelflesh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ll look into it, one of the main concerns I have is finding metal in the pan early on, and mine is a keep, she runs really hot that is why assumed the oil change that jeep advices was mandatory, but I’ll check in the jeep forum see what they say, thank you!

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can run quality modern oils for 20k in a car as robust as a Toyota if you change out the filter mid-interval.

      Germans specify 12-15k nowadays and they run much tighter tolerances.

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• Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have a question. At page 150 of the European user manual for the Jeep Renegade, it says to change the oil every 30k kilometers (19k miles). (And this applies to most petrol engines sold in the last 5 decades.)

  Why in USA it’s common to replace the engine oil 4-6 times as often?

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  • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve had the oil in my 2008 Sienna analyzed a few times by Blackstone Labs, and have been told that 5k miles is what I should stick to.

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  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I believe 19k on modern engines with modern oil but have a hard time believing they recommended the same on many vehicles pre ~2000 when engines and oil were much less robust than they are now.

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• pezhore@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I bought a car that comes with a “free” 300k/30 year warranty, but only if to do oil changes every 4k miles or 3 months. Maybe this guy has something similar?

  For me, I may try And keep it up for a bit, but driving to one particular dealer every 3 months just to get a ridiculous warranty that will probably never actually pay out isn’t worth it.

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• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  for synthetic and push it out to 5k+ miles.

  Haha yeah

  Hides my car always pushing 10k miles

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  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I also run around 10k miles between changes, but newer engines (2013 Camry) are much easier on the oil than a straight-six from 1992 so I’d be hesitant to push it quite as far without doing an oil analysis. You could also just change the filter and keep the same oil at 5k then change both at 10k (again depending on how dirty the engine makes it).

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    • morbidcactus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Haven’t looked into it but do shops offer lube analysis services? Yeah you could send out your own sample to a lab, having it as a shop service would be way more accessible to people.

      Though, in my experience, getting people to commit can be a pain, lots of “yeah I know we have a long p-f interval and it’s super noticeable before it functionally fails, but it’s not that much effort so I’m doing needless maintenance anyhow just in case”, which end of the day you do you.

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