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Subject: [Spridgets] 18K Mini Oil Change?
From: healeyrick at yahoo.com (HealeyRick)
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:43:09 -0800 (PST)
After reading Guy's post on the science of extended oil changes I checked the
owner's manual of our newest car, a 6.1L Chrysler 300C SRT8 with 425hp. 
Factory recommended oil change interval?  3000 miles with Mobil One
synthetic! 

Rick


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--- On Sat, 2/26/11, Jay <jfishbein at snet.net> wrote:

From: Jay <jfishbein at snet.net>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] 18K Mini Oil Change?
To: "Spridgets" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, February 26, 2011, 2:09 PM



PS If you use synthetic oil, you don't need to change oil 3-4K.

 jay




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From: Linda Grunthaner <grunthaner at gmail.com>
To: HealeyRick <healeyrick at yahoo.com>
Cc: Spridget list <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sat, February 26, 2011 1:56:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] 18K Mini Oil Change?

After reading that thread and seeing that image (see below) I'm thinking BMW
doesn't want to cover 4 changes of oil every year as their FREE service. If
I do go with the Mini I'll change it every 3K-4K regardless.
Lin
  http://www.bavarianmachine.com/images/photos/gunk_560.jpg



On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:26 PM, HealeyRick <healeyrick at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dave,
>
> 5K sounds reasonable to me as well.  I don't know if the 20k oil change is
> based on any kind of science or whether it's a marketing ploy to make the
> cars seem to require less maintenance.   I admit I'm an old 3K guy and I'm
> sure oil tech has improved since they drubbed that into our heads. OTOH,
> take a look at the BMW extended oil change pic in this thread
> http://action.publicbroadcasting.net/cartalk/posts/list/2141650.page
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