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Default Oil filter change in old car - how often?

On Dec 8, 12:15*pm, wrote:
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 16:30:10 -0800 (PST), thirty-six

wrote:
Too right. *Gearbox oil is often left. *It needs changing in an
economy car probably sometime within six months to get rid of all the
swarf from manufacturing and allow for initial wear-in of the cogs,
and thereafter at every 20,000 to 40,000 miles unless driven
particularly sedately.


Cobblers.
Even on my SOJC, it's 90K.
I notice you've been spouting a load of ******** in this thread.


So you don't examine your oil, that's fine by me.