Re: Plan on driving a new car on a 3000mile highway trip. Bad idea?

Hachiroku ハチロク wrote:

> I'm old-school. I drive a car 1500 miles and then do the first oil
change.
> Then I do the next one at 3000 miles, and every 3-3500 after that.

Bad idea to do the first oil change at 1500 miles, and totally 
unnecessary, with absolutely no benefit, of doing 3000 mile oil changes 
after that.

> I also had 3 cars go over 250,000 miles without burning oil. 

LOL. with 3000 mile oil changes you never knew whether they burned oil 
or not.

> Of course, with newer cars and a V6, things are different now, but I
would
> still take it pretty easy for the first 1500 miles, and stop and have
the
> oil changed. 

Never change the oil at 1500 miles on a new car.