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Clare Snyder Clare Snyder is offline
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Default Mobil 1 oil and generator

On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 23:18:11 -0500, Ralph Mowery
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In article , says...

The right way would be to do an oil analysis every X miles. Driving
conditions vary so much we'd all be on different schedules for changes.

We used to do that with hydraulic units on the machines. Cheaper to pay
for an analysis than replace 55 gallons of oil that is still good.



for big machines and maybe a fleet of vehicles, but for a single car, it
would probably cost way more to test it than just change it and the
filter.

Kits run $35 to $85 and one test doesn't tell you a lot. You are
looking for changes - so you need a base-line first.
Cheaper on most cars to just change the oilevery year or 12000 Km with
a mid-priced synthetic.
Costs me about $50 on the Kia 3.3 and just a bit less on the 4.0
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