maintenance at 15%
#1
maintenance at 15%
When my oil gets to 15% life (which I believe is based on mileage and nothing else), I start getting the maintenance due soon light. For 750 painstaking miles, I get the notification that an oil change is due. Is it possible to turn the notification back to 5%?
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Burning Brakes
Unfortunately as stated above, you cannot "roll it back" or extend that maintenance interval without simply resetting it.
Mine drives me up the freaking wall as well, between using Castrol Edge that I change between 10 and 15k miles (says im 5k past the maintenance interval now), on top of a dead tire pressure sensor, I've been hearing DING DING DING DING DING every time I get down the road for the past 2 months.
Mine drives me up the freaking wall as well, between using Castrol Edge that I change between 10 and 15k miles (says im 5k past the maintenance interval now), on top of a dead tire pressure sensor, I've been hearing DING DING DING DING DING every time I get down the road for the past 2 months.
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I'm in the same boat; I use Castrol Edge 0W-20 and go about 10,000 miles on oil changes. That said, I cheat; after an oil change I reset the OLM, and then I reset it again when it hits 30%.
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I guess (or at least it's the reason why I use it), because it's cheaper or more available. For example I usually stick with Mobil1, and Amazon doesn't always has 5w-20, or 0w-20 is just cheaper.
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0w-20 is generally considered a synthetic. Depending on who makes it, it will fall under either a blend or full synthetic. With both categories being very good.
Castrol adds their herbs and spices and is perferred with German cars, as the Europeans have their own specification.
Anyway, I'll let horseshoes explain it in detail
Castrol adds their herbs and spices and is perferred with German cars, as the Europeans have their own specification.
Anyway, I'll let horseshoes explain it in detail
#9
0W also offers slightly better cold start up protection than 5W30. Plus, its more likely to be synthetic.
I also use 10K mile intervals (in my TSX). I started this practice at some number divisible by 10 (lets say 100K). So I reset the maintenance annoyer whenever it comes on. I do the oil changes every "decade" of mileage. Its easy to remember. 110, 120, 130, etc. Oil changes on the tens.
I also use 10K mile intervals (in my TSX). I started this practice at some number divisible by 10 (lets say 100K). So I reset the maintenance annoyer whenever it comes on. I do the oil changes every "decade" of mileage. Its easy to remember. 110, 120, 130, etc. Oil changes on the tens.
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Simple answer, 0W-20 outperforms 5W-20 in literally every metric. And now, it isn't less viscous; both oils have the same viscosity when warm; the only difference is when cold (read thick), 0W-20 is less thick (which is a good thing).
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I'm not sure how this became an oil thread. At any rate, when my car gets down to 20% I change the oil. This way I never have to see or listen to maint. Minder.
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Incorrect, there is exactly zero difference between the two oil grades when at their thinnest (hottest).
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#18
I believe a xW-- is called a "multigrade" oil, no?
my point was that if he's concerned about the oil's performance as it gets hot...then 20 is the more significant number. 0 or 5 have lesser significance.
As the oil warms, it approaches the viscosity of a 20 grade at that temperature.
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The term "multigrade" is kind of a misnomer; basically a 0W-20 oil acts like a conventional 0 grade oil when cold, and a conventional 20 grade oil when hot; the good news here is modern synthetic oils are so stable, the better base oils can qualify for the "multigrade" classification without any additives, so it's kind of like, "When is a single grade oil a multigrade oil?"
Agreed; when hot both oils are roughly the same viscosity.
Agreed; when hot both oils are roughly the same viscosity.
#20
Well that was educational. Thank you. However regardless of the Science behind all those numbers, some people wanna have their cake and eat it. They want 10,000 synthetic miles but don’t want maintenance minder to come up at the 3,000 mile interval. My advice is either switch back to conventional for accurate maintenance or reset the oil minder and keep track yourself.
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