On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:47:51 -0400, Frank "frank wrote:

On 3/24/2021 4:38 PM, Tekkie? wrote:

On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:50:25 -0400, Frank posted for all of us to digest...


On 3/23/2021 10:42 AM, TimR wrote:
On Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 8:08:50 AM UTC-4, trader_4 wrote:


Then there are the fanatics that change synthetic oil every 5K miles or less,
that change the tranny, differential fluid and antifreeze every 20K miles and
only use the official dealer fluid.

I have a friend who drives older vehicles.

Every time he changes his oil, he also pulls the plug on the coolant and the transmission fluid. He doesn't drop the pan or make an effort to get all the fluids out, but he replaces the amount that did drain, and figures about every third times he's replaced it.

It seems to work for him, he gets a lot out of older vehicles.


Scotty Kilmer is fond of saying, "Oil is cheap, engines are expensive.
Change your oil frequently."

Sorry Frank, I don't consider him a reliable source. He has a point there but
his comments on other issues leave a lot to be desired. If he were the "Ruler
of the Cars" one would only be allowed to have a Toyota.


I cannot fault him for the comment on oil and learn a lot from him and
he is entertaining. He does make good points that make sense like a
turbocharged small engine is bound to wear out faster.

He is a Toyota fan but points out some of their bad years. He expects a
good car to last for hundreds of thousands of miles. I never had a car
with much over one hundred thousand miles on it that was not dying of
old age.


Buy a Honda. My Prelude is almost 25 years old, god only knows how
many miles it has on it because the speedometer was tricked up when I
got it in 2002 but it says 110,000 and the engine is probably the
strongest part. My guess is closer to 200k. I also don't take very
good care of it. Cheap oil, when I think about it and that is far from
once a year. At this point a dealer oil change and the service they
sell you with that would be 10% of the value of the car ;-)

This is also that VVT thing that Clare says requires wonder oil.