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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What kind of car do you have? Year, make, model, mileage?

Then we can tell you whether something's wrong with your car.
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OMG this.
You people need to read your manuals.  Anyone putting synthetic into their car then changing the oil at 5,000 miles is doing it wrong.  Most of the indicators are actually just maintenance indicators which means it's time for some kind of maintenance but not necessarily an oil change.

For example, my Toyota has a maintenance light that comes on every 5,000 miles or 6 months because every 5k or 6 months I'm supposed to rotate the tires.  It uses synthetic and the oil change is every 10,000 miles or one year.  So even though I'm getting the light after six months, that does not mean that I need another expensive oil change, it means I need a tire rotation - and even this is debatable if I haven't driven at least 5,000 miles yet.  Anyone with a modern Toyota (one that uses synthetic) that's driving 5,000 miles a year and getting more than one oil change a year is wasting money and time as well as harming the environment for no reason.  It's not helping your car.

I refer you to page 38:  https://www.toyota.com/t3Portal/document/omms-s/T-MMS-18Camry/pdf/T-MMS-18Camry.pdf

As you can see, you do NOT need to change the oil at 5k intervals.  Anyone doing that is basing it on dino oil Jiffy Lube propaganda from the 90's.  Even Jiffy Lube stopped saying this : http://business.time.com/2011/06/14/now-even-jiffy-lube-says-you-dont-have-to-get-an-oil-change-every-3000-miles/[/quote]

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