It doesn’t matter if its a Vespa or a Peterbilt truck — if you ignore the maintenance needs of your vehicle, you do so at your own peril. But it can be difficult enough to keep track of…
I know it’s “cheap insurance,” and I’ll never convince you otherwise (nor do I intend to – you do you), but it’s really just a waste of money/oil with modern synthetics. Even if you stretched it out to just 5k you’d be saving almost half as much oil/money while maintaining the same protection. Using a quality filter (factory OEM, Wix) is important too.
I’ve put around 180k miles on my Toyota in the last 9 years with 9k-10k intervals and it runs great as well with a sparkling interior under the valve cover.
I’ll look into it, one of the main concerns I have is finding metal in the pan early on, and mine is a keep, she runs really hot that is why assumed the oil change that jeep advices was mandatory, but I’ll check in the jeep forum see what they say, thank you!
I know it’s “cheap insurance,” and I’ll never convince you otherwise (nor do I intend to – you do you), but it’s really just a waste of money/oil with modern synthetics. Even if you stretched it out to just 5k you’d be saving almost half as much oil/money while maintaining the same protection. Using a quality filter (factory OEM, Wix) is important too.
I’ve put around 180k miles on my Toyota in the last 9 years with 9k-10k intervals and it runs great as well with a sparkling interior under the valve cover.
I’ll look into it, one of the main concerns I have is finding metal in the pan early on, and mine is a keep, she runs really hot that is why assumed the oil change that jeep advices was mandatory, but I’ll check in the jeep forum see what they say, thank you!
You can run quality modern oils for 20k in a car as robust as a Toyota if you change out the filter mid-interval.
Germans specify 12-15k nowadays and they run much tighter tolerances.