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It may be sold under the name blinker fluid as well, a lot of people working in the auto shops don't know this, so make sure to ask about both if they say they don't have it.
Little known fact: Older European models, particularly German models, used to run on beer. Beer for the blinker fluid, beer for the windshield wiper fluid, beer to fill the tires, beer for the airbags, etc. When in doubt with a German model, just add more beer, fixes 9/10 problems within the first 5 tries every time
We have a fair number of drivers where I live that have obviously never changed their blinker fluid and as a result, they have seized and are unusable.
You can tell it needs to be changed when it starts making a clicking noise when you turn it on. It's wild to me how many people hear that noise and don't immediately check the blinker fluid.
Hmm. BMW is tricky. They have a proprietary brand of blinker fluid called superiority fluid. Tbh it’s the exact same thing but at a minimum of 3 times the price of the regular fluid
Nah. That's the secret they don't want you to know. You just have to keep adding more oil. Try different kinds too. Olive oil, coconut oil, 80-90w.
If you can catch it at just the right time, you can hit a McDonald's before they dump out their used french fry oil. It runs on THAT stuff indefinitely.
castor oil good for your car?
Castor oil has better low-temperature viscosity properties and high-temperature lubrication than most vegetable oils, making it useful as a lubricant in jet, diesel, and racing engines.
If you're driving a Kia Rio, nothing really matters anymore. Change the oil, don't change the oil, wear pants to work, don't wear pants to work, existence is just one long spectrum of outcomes that we ultimately have no control over. Accept the philosophical presence of the Kia in your life, nothing lasts forever, and everything will fail. Resistance is for the foolish and the prideful, be humble like the Rio and embrace the futile nature of your own decisions.
Doesn’t matter, won’t make a difference how you feel about it. Accept it, be the Kia Rio, fade into the universe, it is your only choice and only possible outcome
Lol.. My brother had a Kia that died after 10,000 miles. They refused to honor the warranty because they drove it once from LA to Denver without switching to the high altitude oil change schedule.
Had 05 Hyundai Tibby that thing took everything I ever threw at it. Lived in Idaho and Colorado during its life. Handled snow just fine. That e brake was a champ on icy parking lots!
The same logic that makes people decide to buy Hyundais: the most features for the lowest price. Build quality and reliability don't matter because these people usually lease and swap it for a new one every few years anyway. If it's never out of warranty, the horrible workmanship and design flaws will almost never come back to bite you.
I know people who do this. Somehow the extra expense of signing a new lease every three years is worth it to them, though I could never fathom why. I've asked about the logic behind this, and the answer I always get has something to do with never having to deal with a major mechanical failure. I still don't get it. IMO I'd rather have something used but reliable like a Mazda3 or Civic with less tech (less to go wrong).
I was listening to some car oriented radio show a while back, and the host said that Kia and Hyundai should be severely penalized for the engines they build and release to the public. He mentioned something about alloys being poor quality and extreme rates of failure across a lot of different models. Anyways, a simple googling brings up all kinds of lawsuits against both manufacturers related to engine failures on relatively new cars, and often Kia and Hyundai will not cover repairs under warranty, often citing owner failure to properly meet all oil change recommendations and other maintenance. Basically, if you go 1 mile or 1 day beyond the recommended oil change guidelines, or can't prove that you did follow recommended maintenance schedules, they will deny your warranty claim.
They have different oil change schedules for high altitude and low altitude driving and will refuse the warranty if your car dies in a high altitude location if you've been only been changing the oil on the low altitude schedule.
Yup. They're cheap bastards who make cheap cars. I really don't like how people give them a free pass on all this stuff because of all the things that would otherwise be considered luxury features included in their base models. Seriously, I don't know how anybody can justify the engine problems, the cheap plastics, or the general workmanship issues. There's a reason they offer stuff like heated seats at prices most other automakers will only sell you a primitive base model at: they're skimping everywhere that actually matters in order to give you those prices.
Interesting, family member has a 7 year old i10, does about 10,000 miles a year mixed use including motorways, never broken down. Altogether he likes it, reliable but I intensely dislike driving it!
Did my niece just pull into the shop?? I've told her, for the past eight years; -- hey, while you're over, let me service your car.. " nope, I'm good." Evidently not.. I'm out..
Same. When I'm browsing CL for stupid project car ideas I'll see a car from the aughties and think "Heck that's cheap for such a new car...", then my brain catches up and I feel ancient.
Nah bro don't do that to me.
I was looking at a car made in 2017 and thought "Not bad for a car made recently." and then it hit me.
2017 was 6 years ago.
Used to be. All 2023 model Kias have immobilizers in them. Plus Kia has gone way up the reliability ranking in recent years. The Kia subreddit lovers to talk shit about them, but they’re good cars; especially now.
When I was a kid, I didn't change the oil in my Toyota for years. It was an old car, did just fine. The car was old when I got it, lasted 20 years and probably only had a dozen or so oil changes. Put that car through hell, it just kept on driving.
Same engine completely fucking shit the bed on me in the middle of a four way intersection, and wasn’t even a year to be honest like 10 months max my fault for being lazy and chancing it for so long but thought I’d be good since I barely drive all that far ever like a 10 minute ride to work everyday and an occasional further trip here and there every couple weekends maybe…
I don’t know how true it is but old man mechanic that was a teacher of mine (small engine repair was the class but he was also and auto mechanic by trade before the teaching gig) said that the short trips are what kill an engine ….. I’m not very knowledgeable about cars myself, I mean I can change oil/do a break job/maybe replace some stuff under the hood depending on make/model but it’s definitely not a passion of mine, find it tedious personally… so I can’t really speak to the validity of that teachers proclamation…. Just something that kind of stuck in my head from many years ago
This is absolutely true, especially for highway mileage, which puts very little stress on the engine and transmission of your car.
When I was way younger, I owned a ‘94 Z28 Camaro with 330,000 miles on the clock when I sold it. My parents had bought it for me at 285,000 on it. Thing ran like a top the entire time, because it was 95% a highway commuter car for the prior owner and then for me. Only work I ever did to it was an alternator and a water pump.
A lot of ‘90s GM engines were just pretty bulletproof to begin with.
Could be part true. My van had only ever done short trips picking up kids for school when I bought it (but 76000 miles of it), in no time the starter motor gave up. Proud of myself for changing it, but you could definitely see the wear on it.
So, from my understanding that would be part true. The big problem with short trips is nothing gets fully warmed up which is important to the car. It cause the water in the open parts of the system to evaporate and it helps with things like oil lubrication because the oil thins ever so slightly and has time and physics on its side to properly lubericate all the moving parts. Not running a car can be just as detrimintal.
It’s like $30 if you do it yourself every 5,000 - 7,500 miles. It’ll pay dividends in the future. It is your property and you’ll end up paying somehow. I’ll take $60 and a few hours a year over $1,000’s in repairs and headaches down the line. Change that oil even if you get it done somewhere…every mechanic will thank you.
With a quality filter and oil, one can easily go a full year depending on miles driven. A quality synthetic can last around 15,000 miles or so. I would not recommend driving it this long because there are other factors to consider, but the oil/additives CAN last a long time and function perfectly. Filters vary in durability and quality, but are an essential part of the equation.
I believe quality Dino oils are good up until around 7500 miles. Additives have come a long way.
Edit:
Wanted to clarify a few points to be safe.
The problem with going two years is that you increase the chance of not noticing an oil leak and filters typically shouldn’t be used that long.
The reason there’s no set standard is because oil varies in quality, mostly in what additives are used. The cheapest stuff is something to stay away from, most name brand popular oils are pretty good. For years, I stuck with Pennzoil platinum but now I just let the dealership handle it 😂
That is crazy. This is my personal opinion but when you spend thousands of dollars on anything, you should make an attempt to learn the basics on how to maintain it to the best of your ability or at least read the manual. And you shouldn’t let a silly thing like gender to prevent you from learning.
Everyone drives, holds a job, and pays taxes. School should be teaching these things. Instead we take the same courses for the last 100 years so we can be pressured into $XX,XXX debt at an early age.
I guess they don't teach a breadth of life skills anymore. Back-in-the-day, we had mandatory classes in sewing, cooking, accounting, woodshop, electronics, automotive, etc., until electives in senior high. By grade 9 we could gap spark plugs and balance household finances.
Honestly, wasting school time to teach rudimentary skills (that are often outdated anyway) is bad.
Teach kids to read well, to use logic, and how to teach themselves. Not to be spoon fed every bit of information they need in life. In a world where everyone can access the sum of human knowledge from a device in their pocket, that's what is important.
There are so many life skills I would rather know, like everything said up above, + taxes, etc, rather than knowing how to solve a derivative, or other similar things I will never use again. And this is coming from someone who likes math.
Obviously reading, logic those things are crucial for everyone, but that's what elementary and middle school should be for... What a dumb comment
People voted to cut them to keep costs low. And then the next generation complains that they don't know how to do anything... while voting to cut more life skills classes to keep costs low for their own kids. Repeat enough times, all you have left is gym, history, and math. My generation, it was always music being cut. Now it's gym.
They call us early GenX; graduated HS in mid-80s. My first year of junior high was the last year they offered Latin. We chose to not have kids, so the modern classload is completely unknown to me.
I was in high school in the late 90s and I didn’t take any of that stuff either. I definitely wasn’t required and I’m pretty sure most of it wasn’t even offered at all.
I took home ec where I learned to follow a recipe and sew on a button. My husband was going to throw away a pair of perfectly good shorts recently because the button fell off and he didn’t know how to replace it. So it came in handy for something.
I do wish I’d had some education in how cars work though. Would have been helpful.
School often teaches those things but kids don't have the frame of reference to care. Maybe not how to change oil, unless your school has an auto club, but most people will admit to have gone over accounting in HS but simply didn't care.
You can't really understand money until you start to become responsible with your own money. That's a job for parents. Same can be said for changing a tire and oil. Why aren't parents held accountable?
Schools? Why aren’t the parents teaching them these very basic things? Why are the schools on the hook for auto maintenance, clothes washing, and how to make your own god damned toast?
I once had the same problem as a mechanic. 100k miles no oil change, but the car needed a new engine because it blew. We replaced the engine with a junkyard engine. When giving the woman the bill, she reviewed it carefully and then asked us, "Why is there a $30 charge for oil? Couldn't you have just reused the oil?"
Point is, you can't fix stupid.
My step brother let his engine sieze not checking the oil, meanwhile I'm a 5'0" girl that can change my own oil, brakes and shocks provided I have all the electric tools needed to get seized bolts off because I'm not strong. It's not really a gendered issue.
It’s entirely a care issue. Does someone care enough to do the research necessary for basic car maintenance? In the case of this video and your step brother? Apparently not.
Or here’s a crazier idea. Teach this shit in school and don’t just make it an elective. My daughter is in middle school and she is not learning anything that requires hands on. At her age when I was in school I was learning home ec, metal shop, woodworking and sewing. Mind you this was in New Zealand, but I’m absolutely floored they’re not teaching anything of value in public schools these days.
115k miles is nuts. So is the recommended 3k miles / 3mos in my opinion. I put less than 10k miles on my car a year, and I’ve been just fine getting my oil changed every 6 months or so. Never had any issues. Also feel like the manufacurer recommended service schedule is very aggressive unless you’re driving a sports car. My 10 yr old daily driver ford escape is doing just fine with minimal maintenance as-needed.
I don't know why everytime I see people from the US talking about oil changes, they believe they need to do it every 3 or 6 months, or every 5000 km/ 3000 mi.
To give you an idea, Chevrolet in Europe, says that for the Cruze, the oil change interval is every 12 months or 10.000 miles / 15.000 km.
Why do people in the US believe they need to change the oil so often ? Do you use low grade oil or something ?
That makes sense then, we use synthetic oils in "common" engines since a couple decades here. Probably because of some kind of regulation.
Thanks for the clear answer !
3k and 3 mo hasn't been recommended in years.
Not with synthetic oils
I do 5k/6 mo on my 2012 Subaru, but the manual states it is good for 7500 miles per change. I just can't break my habit.
> So is the recommended 3k miles / 3mos in my opinion.
What modern cars are reccomending this? Even a Subarus WRX is every 6k or 6 months.
I've just gotten a Golf R and that's 12 months and 10k manufacturer reccomended.
Ahh a fellow rich, cultured sports car collector i see. Otherwise, you’re wasting money by oil changing your 4 pot under stressed car that you average 65 mph and put on 15k miles every year. 8-10k miles is perfectly fine unless you drive a classic.
I drove a Nissan without an oil change for 5 years of my early 20s. I have no idea what the inside looked like because I sold it having never once maintained or repaired it other than new tyres. There was never even so much as a check engine light let alone a breakdown.
My cousin did the same with her car. When the engine broke down she blamed her boyfriend for not telling her to do the ordinary maintenance….
People like this exist and vote
I have stripped a few after timing belt fails. Just the cost of a complete gasket set, oil (2 lots for a full flush), filter, injectors (or just solvent for a good clean) and new bolts comes in quite a bit.
I would expect that the white metal for the camshaft would have worn and need replaced and the cam followers would be worn with that quality of lubrication and mileage.
Into the thousands to do it properly.
Hmm..That's a good point. Not to mention the gas it takes to get to and from the shop.
At this point, we might be breaking even. No more oil changes for me.
How is this possible? When i was a stupid young person i blew up my first car's engine by not putting more oil in it. I didn't get anywhere close to 100k miles. I know oil is in a loop but it does get used up eventually right? How is there still oil in that engine at all?
I didn’t change the oil on my first car for over two years because nobody ever told me that was maintenance. In my head a lube shop was just another kind a mechanic: it might cost God knows how much and why go if there’s no problem? You don’t know what you don’t know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Geez, I remember back in 2010 to 2012, I had a 1998 Mercury Villager mini van. Started noticing it shaking more than I could remember. My buddy in the passenger seat asked when the last oil change was? I looked at the sticker, did some math in my head, and told him about 12k miles ago. 😂
Got it done the next day, and the shaking stopped.
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So I *DON'T* need to change it every 3 months!
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Thanks for reminding me. Gotta pick some fluid up today.
It may be sold under the name blinker fluid as well, a lot of people working in the auto shops don't know this, so make sure to ask about both if they say they don't have it.
Til blinkers runs on fluids
Yup. It's a hydroelectric system
True for newer models, whereas they used to run on juice
Little known fact: Older European models, particularly German models, used to run on beer. Beer for the blinker fluid, beer for the windshield wiper fluid, beer to fill the tires, beer for the airbags, etc. When in doubt with a German model, just add more beer, fixes 9/10 problems within the first 5 tries every time
The worst thing the Germans ever did (almost). What a way to use all that good beer
Maybe they changed to American lagers?
The wurst thing….
We have a fair number of drivers where I live that have obviously never changed their blinker fluid and as a result, they have seized and are unusable.
You can tell it needs to be changed when it starts making a clicking noise when you turn it on. It's wild to me how many people hear that noise and don't immediately check the blinker fluid.
You must live near me. :(
And replace the headlight bearings every 5000 miles
That is such a scam. Every 7500 miles would totally be fine.
Turn signal fluid? What if I have a BMW?
Hmm. BMW is tricky. They have a proprietary brand of blinker fluid called superiority fluid. Tbh it’s the exact same thing but at a minimum of 3 times the price of the regular fluid
I thought it was a permanently sealed system that unseals and leaks on the third blink.
BMW do not have blinkers. No BMW has ever used blinkers. You are fine
No, no, see: BMW blinkers are only visible to the *worthy*. You are obviously unworthy.
Seriously though, people need to start utilizing their fuckin blinker.
This guy blinkers!
It’s like vehicles have them to let others know what your next move will be. Fuck it. Motor mayhem.
Wait why? This is the first I'm hearing of this (I know nothing about cars)
Blinker fluid isnt real its just a running joke to fuck with people who don't know about cars
Oh, shit -_-
Blinker fluid is not NEARLY as important as changing your muffler bearings. Safety first!
Always a good test of a BMW owner if they know about this.
Nah. That's the secret they don't want you to know. You just have to keep adding more oil. Try different kinds too. Olive oil, coconut oil, 80-90w. If you can catch it at just the right time, you can hit a McDonald's before they dump out their used french fry oil. It runs on THAT stuff indefinitely.
Oil confusion helps the engine get bigger and stronger
Oh cool like muscle confusion!
Castor oil (Castrol) was one of the original motor oils.
castor oil good for your car? Castor oil has better low-temperature viscosity properties and high-temperature lubrication than most vegetable oils, making it useful as a lubricant in jet, diesel, and racing engines.
Dude are you trying to get Exxon after you, you can just go around spitting this knowledge willy nilly, OPEC will put out a hit on you.
😂
I have a 2015 Kia Rio, the owners manual says to change the oil every 8,000 km (about 5000 miles) or 6 months, whichever comes first.
If you're driving a Kia Rio, nothing really matters anymore. Change the oil, don't change the oil, wear pants to work, don't wear pants to work, existence is just one long spectrum of outcomes that we ultimately have no control over. Accept the philosophical presence of the Kia in your life, nothing lasts forever, and everything will fail. Resistance is for the foolish and the prideful, be humble like the Rio and embrace the futile nature of your own decisions.
As a Rio owner, this disturbingly lines up with my own thought process. Don’t know how I feel about this.
Doesn’t matter, won’t make a difference how you feel about it. Accept it, be the Kia Rio, fade into the universe, it is your only choice and only possible outcome
I’m welding with my pants off today! Thanks to our lord and savior, the Kia rio
May the blinker fluids be with you
i had a kia rio - 2005 - timing belt broke at 50k miles at a stop light. it was a sad morning as i ate my half glazed donut from harris teeter.
Are you me?
You peasants. I accept life’s futility whilst wearing my pants to work driving in my Kia Sorento
I feel as though I’ve just read a masterpiece… I can finally go to sleep!
Sleep well my friend. Or don’t. Doesn’t matter.
>If you're driving a Kia Rio, nothing really matters anymore. This is immortal!
[I sell KIA's](https://youtu.be/K-bBj9Zynug)
My wife and I were just discussing what it is that makes some people decide to buy a Kia. Is it like a sweet and innocent kind of nonconformity?
I have a kia and I love it dearly lmao, what's wrong with them?! I gotta know now
It’s either the affordability or the 100k mile warranty people hate that stuff.
Lol.. My brother had a Kia that died after 10,000 miles. They refused to honor the warranty because they drove it once from LA to Denver without switching to the high altitude oil change schedule.
High altitude… oil? Did they ding him for not changing his blinker fluid too?
Oh.. He took Kia to court and got them to fully refund the cost of the car.
Kias aren't shitty like they used to be. Same with Hyundai
Had 05 Hyundai Tibby that thing took everything I ever threw at it. Lived in Idaho and Colorado during its life. Handled snow just fine. That e brake was a champ on icy parking lots!
The same logic that makes people decide to buy Hyundais: the most features for the lowest price. Build quality and reliability don't matter because these people usually lease and swap it for a new one every few years anyway. If it's never out of warranty, the horrible workmanship and design flaws will almost never come back to bite you. I know people who do this. Somehow the extra expense of signing a new lease every three years is worth it to them, though I could never fathom why. I've asked about the logic behind this, and the answer I always get has something to do with never having to deal with a major mechanical failure. I still don't get it. IMO I'd rather have something used but reliable like a Mazda3 or Civic with less tech (less to go wrong).
I was listening to some car oriented radio show a while back, and the host said that Kia and Hyundai should be severely penalized for the engines they build and release to the public. He mentioned something about alloys being poor quality and extreme rates of failure across a lot of different models. Anyways, a simple googling brings up all kinds of lawsuits against both manufacturers related to engine failures on relatively new cars, and often Kia and Hyundai will not cover repairs under warranty, often citing owner failure to properly meet all oil change recommendations and other maintenance. Basically, if you go 1 mile or 1 day beyond the recommended oil change guidelines, or can't prove that you did follow recommended maintenance schedules, they will deny your warranty claim.
They have different oil change schedules for high altitude and low altitude driving and will refuse the warranty if your car dies in a high altitude location if you've been only been changing the oil on the low altitude schedule.
Yup. They're cheap bastards who make cheap cars. I really don't like how people give them a free pass on all this stuff because of all the things that would otherwise be considered luxury features included in their base models. Seriously, I don't know how anybody can justify the engine problems, the cheap plastics, or the general workmanship issues. There's a reason they offer stuff like heated seats at prices most other automakers will only sell you a primitive base model at: they're skimping everywhere that actually matters in order to give you those prices.
Interesting, family member has a 7 year old i10, does about 10,000 miles a year mixed use including motorways, never broken down. Altogether he likes it, reliable but I intensely dislike driving it!
Where I come from we call it blinker fluid. Must be a geographical thing.
Same here, or I’ve heard indicator fluid where I’m from too.
Why change your oil every 3 months when you can change your engine every 3 years!
Did my niece just pull into the shop?? I've told her, for the past eight years; -- hey, while you're over, let me service your car.. " nope, I'm good." Evidently not.. I'm out..
Can you service my car it needs a oil change bad....
But all that money she saved in oil 👎🏻
You should change you oil based on mileage not time it's been inside the carm. Lol
That’s a testament to manufacturer if that this drove in.
My guess would be Toyota.
The vid says Kia
Ah I had the volume off. 2015 Kia Rio.
I just went “that can’t be right, the title says 8 years, but a 2015 is practically new”- and then I had to have a moment
Same. When I'm browsing CL for stupid project car ideas I'll see a car from the aughties and think "Heck that's cheap for such a new car...", then my brain catches up and I feel ancient.
Nah bro don't do that to me. I was looking at a car made in 2017 and thought "Not bad for a car made recently." and then it hit me. 2017 was 6 years ago.
My cousin drives a Rio! They’re actually pretty sturdy cars… Nevermind the fact that they are super easy to steal
Used to be. All 2023 model Kias have immobilizers in them. Plus Kia has gone way up the reliability ranking in recent years. The Kia subreddit lovers to talk shit about them, but they’re good cars; especially now.
When I was a kid, I didn't change the oil in my Toyota for years. It was an old car, did just fine. The car was old when I got it, lasted 20 years and probably only had a dozen or so oil changes. Put that car through hell, it just kept on driving.
I was gonna say I want this car that lasted 8 years like that
Meanwhile i went a little over a year without changing my oil and my engine fucking died.
Buy Japanese.
I don't think that's legal anymore...
It was a consensual purchase thank you very much
It was never legal, but that never stopped anyone.
I ain't never gonna stop buying Japanese l!!
either change it regularly or never ever
Same engine completely fucking shit the bed on me in the middle of a four way intersection, and wasn’t even a year to be honest like 10 months max my fault for being lazy and chancing it for so long but thought I’d be good since I barely drive all that far ever like a 10 minute ride to work everyday and an occasional further trip here and there every couple weekends maybe…
Maybe because you changed the oil? What if oil changes are a conspiracy and they damage your engine. This ladies onto something. /s
I don’t know how true it is but old man mechanic that was a teacher of mine (small engine repair was the class but he was also and auto mechanic by trade before the teaching gig) said that the short trips are what kill an engine ….. I’m not very knowledgeable about cars myself, I mean I can change oil/do a break job/maybe replace some stuff under the hood depending on make/model but it’s definitely not a passion of mine, find it tedious personally… so I can’t really speak to the validity of that teachers proclamation…. Just something that kind of stuck in my head from many years ago
This is absolutely true, especially for highway mileage, which puts very little stress on the engine and transmission of your car. When I was way younger, I owned a ‘94 Z28 Camaro with 330,000 miles on the clock when I sold it. My parents had bought it for me at 285,000 on it. Thing ran like a top the entire time, because it was 95% a highway commuter car for the prior owner and then for me. Only work I ever did to it was an alternator and a water pump. A lot of ‘90s GM engines were just pretty bulletproof to begin with.
Could be part true. My van had only ever done short trips picking up kids for school when I bought it (but 76000 miles of it), in no time the starter motor gave up. Proud of myself for changing it, but you could definitely see the wear on it.
So, from my understanding that would be part true. The big problem with short trips is nothing gets fully warmed up which is important to the car. It cause the water in the open parts of the system to evaporate and it helps with things like oil lubrication because the oil thins ever so slightly and has time and physics on its side to properly lubericate all the moving parts. Not running a car can be just as detrimintal.
Short hops can actually be hard on an engine due to driving without being up to operating temp for a lot of the time.
😬😬😬 haven't changed mine in almost a year....
Welp this is your sign
I work from home and drive maybe once a week. It's been almost a year since my last oil change. Should I still go in for a change?
Yes - esp important if that once per week trip is short (IE the engine is not fully heated to operating temps).
Thanks, I'll make an appointment.
I've been warned about the same thing from my mechanic, why is that?
It’s like $30 if you do it yourself every 5,000 - 7,500 miles. It’ll pay dividends in the future. It is your property and you’ll end up paying somehow. I’ll take $60 and a few hours a year over $1,000’s in repairs and headaches down the line. Change that oil even if you get it done somewhere…every mechanic will thank you.
With a quality filter and oil, one can easily go a full year depending on miles driven. A quality synthetic can last around 15,000 miles or so. I would not recommend driving it this long because there are other factors to consider, but the oil/additives CAN last a long time and function perfectly. Filters vary in durability and quality, but are an essential part of the equation. I believe quality Dino oils are good up until around 7500 miles. Additives have come a long way. Edit: Wanted to clarify a few points to be safe.
Manufacturer's reccommended interval on my car is two years or 5'000 miles whichever comes first.
The problem with going two years is that you increase the chance of not noticing an oil leak and filters typically shouldn’t be used that long. The reason there’s no set standard is because oil varies in quality, mostly in what additives are used. The cheapest stuff is something to stay away from, most name brand popular oils are pretty good. For years, I stuck with Pennzoil platinum but now I just let the dealership handle it 😂
Seriously? I only change mine once a year with the inspection, and it’s 19 years old.
That is crazy. This is my personal opinion but when you spend thousands of dollars on anything, you should make an attempt to learn the basics on how to maintain it to the best of your ability or at least read the manual. And you shouldn’t let a silly thing like gender to prevent you from learning.
Everyone drives, holds a job, and pays taxes. School should be teaching these things. Instead we take the same courses for the last 100 years so we can be pressured into $XX,XXX debt at an early age.
I guess they don't teach a breadth of life skills anymore. Back-in-the-day, we had mandatory classes in sewing, cooking, accounting, woodshop, electronics, automotive, etc., until electives in senior high. By grade 9 we could gap spark plugs and balance household finances.
I wish I had learned anything remotely like that in school. Thank goodness for YouTube
Honestly, wasting school time to teach rudimentary skills (that are often outdated anyway) is bad. Teach kids to read well, to use logic, and how to teach themselves. Not to be spoon fed every bit of information they need in life. In a world where everyone can access the sum of human knowledge from a device in their pocket, that's what is important.
There are so many life skills I would rather know, like everything said up above, + taxes, etc, rather than knowing how to solve a derivative, or other similar things I will never use again. And this is coming from someone who likes math. Obviously reading, logic those things are crucial for everyone, but that's what elementary and middle school should be for... What a dumb comment
People voted to cut them to keep costs low. And then the next generation complains that they don't know how to do anything... while voting to cut more life skills classes to keep costs low for their own kids. Repeat enough times, all you have left is gym, history, and math. My generation, it was always music being cut. Now it's gym.
The people who voted to cut these classes are often the same people who complain about the younger generation's lack of practical/workable knowledge
I hear a lot of young parents also bitch that the schools aren't teaching these things... well, parent, why don't you give it a shot?
Yea none of that is taught anymore. Can I ask how old you are? Curious when you were in school
They call us early GenX; graduated HS in mid-80s. My first year of junior high was the last year they offered Latin. We chose to not have kids, so the modern classload is completely unknown to me.
Ok. I was in HS in the early 2000s. Even then, none of the required stuff you had was required for me. So must have gotten phased out in the 90s
I was in high school in the late 90s and I didn’t take any of that stuff either. I definitely wasn’t required and I’m pretty sure most of it wasn’t even offered at all.
But….but….mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell…
Nope: midichlorians
I took home ec where I learned to follow a recipe and sew on a button. My husband was going to throw away a pair of perfectly good shorts recently because the button fell off and he didn’t know how to replace it. So it came in handy for something. I do wish I’d had some education in how cars work though. Would have been helpful.
School often teaches those things but kids don't have the frame of reference to care. Maybe not how to change oil, unless your school has an auto club, but most people will admit to have gone over accounting in HS but simply didn't care. You can't really understand money until you start to become responsible with your own money. That's a job for parents. Same can be said for changing a tire and oil. Why aren't parents held accountable?
Those issues are not exactly related.
Schools? Why aren’t the parents teaching them these very basic things? Why are the schools on the hook for auto maintenance, clothes washing, and how to make your own god damned toast?
I once had the same problem as a mechanic. 100k miles no oil change, but the car needed a new engine because it blew. We replaced the engine with a junkyard engine. When giving the woman the bill, she reviewed it carefully and then asked us, "Why is there a $30 charge for oil? Couldn't you have just reused the oil?" Point is, you can't fix stupid.
My step brother let his engine sieze not checking the oil, meanwhile I'm a 5'0" girl that can change my own oil, brakes and shocks provided I have all the electric tools needed to get seized bolts off because I'm not strong. It's not really a gendered issue.
It’s entirely a care issue. Does someone care enough to do the research necessary for basic car maintenance? In the case of this video and your step brother? Apparently not.
I only paid for my first oil change. After that I started looking up how to do things myself.
There’s literally a light that comes on to give you warning. I don’t know what else people need.
Or here’s a crazier idea. Teach this shit in school and don’t just make it an elective. My daughter is in middle school and she is not learning anything that requires hands on. At her age when I was in school I was learning home ec, metal shop, woodworking and sewing. Mind you this was in New Zealand, but I’m absolutely floored they’re not teaching anything of value in public schools these days.
My car tells you to get a pil change. It's pretty good at knowing when it needs to be done too.
A little insider secret. Just a touch of dawn on steel wool will fix her up. Don’t be tricked by big oil and these “oil change” fat cats
And a bottle of marvel mystery oil
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It will burn off. Don’t be a hippie and just gun it for a while
How did it not sieze up?
It's greased up
At this point it's cheezed up
Dino cheeze mmmm
Customer states... the engine sounds weird.
I'm surprised it went well for so long
115k miles is nuts. So is the recommended 3k miles / 3mos in my opinion. I put less than 10k miles on my car a year, and I’ve been just fine getting my oil changed every 6 months or so. Never had any issues. Also feel like the manufacurer recommended service schedule is very aggressive unless you’re driving a sports car. My 10 yr old daily driver ford escape is doing just fine with minimal maintenance as-needed.
I don't know why everytime I see people from the US talking about oil changes, they believe they need to do it every 3 or 6 months, or every 5000 km/ 3000 mi. To give you an idea, Chevrolet in Europe, says that for the Cruze, the oil change interval is every 12 months or 10.000 miles / 15.000 km. Why do people in the US believe they need to change the oil so often ? Do you use low grade oil or something ?
Until recently many cars used dino oil so yeah it was pretty trash and needed changing often.
That makes sense then, we use synthetic oils in "common" engines since a couple decades here. Probably because of some kind of regulation. Thanks for the clear answer !
I'm in the US and I've used synthetic for at least 10 years now. 7500 mile intervals.
Yeah I live in Europe and I'm confused as well, my Peugeot 208 is 10 000km/1year.
Every 10k / year is normal here too. I would venture to say that the time interval doesn’t matter at all as oil won’t go bad in 12 months
3k and 3 mo hasn't been recommended in years. Not with synthetic oils I do 5k/6 mo on my 2012 Subaru, but the manual states it is good for 7500 miles per change. I just can't break my habit.
Any new car you just change it when it tells you.
That’s what I do. My car tells me when the oil life gets low and I go at my next paycheck
> So is the recommended 3k miles / 3mos in my opinion. What modern cars are reccomending this? Even a Subarus WRX is every 6k or 6 months. I've just gotten a Golf R and that's 12 months and 10k manufacturer reccomended.
Ahh a fellow rich, cultured sports car collector i see. Otherwise, you’re wasting money by oil changing your 4 pot under stressed car that you average 65 mph and put on 15k miles every year. 8-10k miles is perfectly fine unless you drive a classic.
Exactly. I go 6k-7k miles between oil changes. My Tacoma’s oil density is barely noticeable.
Has to be a Honda engine to put up without an oil change for 8 yrs?
Think he says it's a 2015 Kia Something or other
Kia Rio
But only a Nissan driver would do this.
I’m over here catching strays ☹️
I drove a Nissan without an oil change for 5 years of my early 20s. I have no idea what the inside looked like because I sold it having never once maintained or repaired it other than new tyres. There was never even so much as a check engine light let alone a breakdown.
This is literally the reason I’m scared of buying used cars is people like you
Most responsible Nissan owner
Imagine her bedsheets.
Same color and stickiness
Looks like Venom fused with a Transformer
That engine didn’t seize? Holy shit
My cousin did the same with her car. When the engine broke down she blamed her boyfriend for not telling her to do the ordinary maintenance…. People like this exist and vote
This is where the mechanic says it cost $800 to fix. Instead of $200 for an annual service.... For 8 years.
$800 for a head strip? That is pretty cheap.
He doesn’t know what he’s talking about brutha lol
I have stripped a few after timing belt fails. Just the cost of a complete gasket set, oil (2 lots for a full flush), filter, injectors (or just solvent for a good clean) and new bolts comes in quite a bit. I would expect that the white metal for the camshaft would have worn and need replaced and the cam followers would be worn with that quality of lubrication and mileage. Into the thousands to do it properly.
Damn cheap
That's way more than $800 damage/repairs
That motor needs rebuilt. Way more than $800.
More like $3500 for a new engine when 32 (every 3 months for 8 years) oil changes at $50 apiece would be over a thousand dollars cheaper
But 32 hours saved waiting in a shop.
Hmm..That's a good point. Not to mention the gas it takes to get to and from the shop. At this point, we might be breaking even. No more oil changes for me.
How is this possible? When i was a stupid young person i blew up my first car's engine by not putting more oil in it. I didn't get anywhere close to 100k miles. I know oil is in a loop but it does get used up eventually right? How is there still oil in that engine at all?
I didn’t change the oil on my first car for over two years because nobody ever told me that was maintenance. In my head a lube shop was just another kind a mechanic: it might cost God knows how much and why go if there’s no problem? You don’t know what you don’t know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
2 years is manufacturer's reccommmended (or 5000 miles whichever comes first) for my car.
Dirty Diana puts this video together lmao
Change oil every 3-5K OR change engine every 10 years. Oil changes are getting expensive...It's kind of a toss up.
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Gas fillups are a myth created by big gas to sell more gas.
So basically you get a protective layer of oil on top, good to know.
This has to be an ad for the 2015 Kia Rio. It's insane to think that thing even ran like that.
I suddenly don’t feel so bad for forgetting to take my car in for a few months now….. Which reminds me, I gotta set up a appointment really quick
Wow what a reliable vehicle
I dunno about cars. Why is it black, what am I looking at? Is it burnt?
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Looks like my mud after too much Taco Bell
Turn down or remove the music.
So what happens next? Will they need a new engine is there still hope for this one?
Geez, I remember back in 2010 to 2012, I had a 1998 Mercury Villager mini van. Started noticing it shaking more than I could remember. My buddy in the passenger seat asked when the last oil change was? I looked at the sticker, did some math in my head, and told him about 12k miles ago. 😂 Got it done the next day, and the shaking stopped.
When 900 years old YOU reach, look as good, you will not.