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

SMS wrote:
> Hachiroku ハチロク wrote:
>> On Wed, 14 May 2008 20:57:15 -0700, SMS wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Been doing it for a long time. Seems to work. I have a couple of 20
year
>> old cars here. 
> 
> So why didn't you change the oil every 1000 miles or every 500 miles? It

> would have had the same effect on longevity as 3000 mile oil changes or 
> 5000 mile oil changes. Don't you want to buy all the cheap insurance you

> can buy?
> 
>>> Never change the oil at 1500 miles on a new car.
>>
>>
>> Why? I do it all the time and get rewarded with cars that go >200,000
>> miles with no oil related problems. Matter of fact, no problems at all,
>> hardly.
> 
> You seem to think that getting 200,000 miles out of a car is some 
> spectacular achievement that requires doing far more maintenance than 
> necessary.
> 
>> Maintenance is a wonderful thing.
>>
>> Phew...
> 
> Recreational oil changing is pretty wasteful. All the experts agree that

> there is no additional benefit to the engine from changing the oil that 
> often.


whatever do you mean???  there's /huge/ benefit for the oilcos in 
separating fools from their money!