How often do you *actually* get an oil change, and how old is your car?

[Anonymous]

8 year old Subaru.Mine ends up being like 8 months. Mechanic says 6 months, but I don't drive much - like 2000 max miles in that time.

[Anonymous]

Two years old and I get it changed whenever the sticker says.

[Anonymous]

Whenever the light comes on. Maybe every 6-7 months? 2018

[Anonymous]

10 year Subaru, whenever the light comes on which usually is about 8 months.

[Anonymous]

Usually once a year. We don't put that many miles on our cars so aim for an annual service. We've been told that 1x/year is enough with high quality oils today. it used to be that the norm was 6 months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Usually once a year. We don't put that many miles on our cars so aim for an annual service. We've been told that 1x/year is enough with high quality oils today. it used to be that the norm was 6 months.

Here's the language for one of our cars:

"How Often Does My Porsche Macan Need to be Serviced? For our Porsche Macan drivers we recommend getting your oil changed every 10,000 miles or once a year."

[Anonymous]

2005 Prius. About every 9 months or 7500 miles.

My questions would be whether the engine consumes any oil during that time and how does the oil look when it comes out. Mine is an older engine that probably has some blow-by at the rings, so the oil starts to look very black by the time I change it.

Modern, tight engines with synthetic oil can go very long between changes without a problem. (Of course, I would stick to the manual if it was under warranty.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Usually once a year. We don't put that many miles on our cars so aim for an annual service. We've been told that 1x/year is enough with high quality oils today. it used to be that the norm was 6 months.

Here's the language for one of our cars:

"How Often Does My Porsche Macan Need to be Serviced? For our Porsche Macan drivers we recommend getting your oil changed every 10,000 miles or once a year."

I have a 5 year old Mercedes SUV. I take it in for its scheduled service about every 10,000 miles whenever the annoying service indicatiord come on, which ends up being every 9 months or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:8 year old Subaru.Mine ends up being like 8 months. Mechanic says 6 months, but I don't drive much - like 2000 max miles in that time.

Are you home bound?

[Anonymous]

We changed our own since covid started. We do each car maybe 2-3x a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:8 year old Subaru.Mine ends up being like 8 months. Mechanic says 6 months, but I don't drive much - like 2000 max miles in that time.

Are you home bound?

No, but we can walk to everything.

[Anonymous]

I thought mileage determine frequency of the oil change. For me, it’s every 5000 miles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought mileage determine frequency of the oil change. For me, it’s every 5000 miles.

I don’t think there are any cars that require them at that low mileage

[Anonymous]

Once a year, I only drive 6-8k miles a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:8 year old Subaru.Mine ends up being like 8 months. Mechanic says 6 months, but I don't drive much - like 2000 max miles in that time.

Are you home bound?

What a weird response. Do you live in a totally non walkeable area with no public transport?