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Re: Thanks Swedecar Posted by SWEDECAR [Email]  (#112)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from SWEDECAR) on Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:35:13
In Reply to: Thanks Swedecar, Advocate, Sun, 26 Sep 2004 17:42:49 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
It's a little bit to early for me to tell with the 15K intervals and I say that to be safe and if planning to keep the car for a long time 10K would be more in my taste.
I feel oil quality is linked very much to coldstarts too, not miles driven. That's where supposedly the OLS is kicking in, calculating more things than just miles driven.
If you clock 15K in 6 month or maybe a year, it might work very well with 15K intervals IF! you keep an eye on the oil level in between.
I don't feel too sure about if you clock 15K in 24 month. That's gonna be an awful lot of cold starts during those two years.
And if we start to hear from more and more from people that owns a 9-3SS that the oil monitor is not ready until more than 15K have gone by, you can be suspicious about that the monitor might not be as accurate as it should be.
Keep in mind that these longer intervals are more geared toward gaining enviromental points for car manufacturer than car longevity, and to show low maintenance prices when the car is first sold,(like BMW slogan, 100K miles before your first tune up).
I don't mind long intervals if they make sense, car owners have other things to do than getting an oil change every 3K/3month which is the standard by all the TV/radio commercials I see/hear.
But if they go to quick lube places every 15K and get crappy oil on top of that, they might be in trouble.
I even had to educate my oil supplier about the 0W-40 Euro spec M1. He thought that all M1 oils where the same until I pointed out the ratings on the bottle.
Anders
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