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Intermediate Oil Change
Would you guys on here recommend an Intermediate Oil Change (done at home) between services taking into account my mileage of roughly 8/9 k a year including lot of short journeys
Thoughts anyone .....Peter
13th Nov 2013 8:37 pm
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I do one at 7:5k miles In between the scheduled stuff,
I've always done this, in my limited knowledge clean fresh oil with no contaminants or particles to wear the engine makes perfect sense ?
However !
I've read recently that modern oils are lasting longer and too much oil change is a bad thing as the detergents and cleaners strip vital protection from surfaces ?
This was off a VW forum where people were on extended oil changes of 20K miles ?
And they believed that changing sooner was detrimental to the engines protection.
Figure that one out Only dead fish go with the Flow !
22nd Nov 2013 3:22 pm
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In the old days it would have made perfect sense.
But now with modern oils and filters etc, with finer tolerances, I would do much more than the scheduled.
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You wouldn't go back to an earlier windows 95 computer we move on with technology.
BUT you would go back from Windows 8 or 8.1 to Windose 7.
I will continue to do intermediate changes of oil & filter.
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22nd Nov 2013 5:25 pm
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I use Castrol Edge fully synthetic and leave it for 12 months or 12k. All running smoothly
22nd Nov 2013 5:29 pm
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I let my LR garage change oil (Castrol Edge) and filtre at 15000 km because I disagree with the modern oil theory.
The particles (rest from the burn process) are in the oil and even a "modern" oil can't eliminate them. I think, it's under the pressure of the market and the consumers who want longer service intervals but from a technical point of view, it's clear that newer oil is better for the engine.
And I add another argument for intermediate oil change. My fuel consumption dropped a little but measurably. I use FuelLog for Android since the first filling of my tank and have an average fuel consumption of 24.1 mpg. The interesting aspect is, that I have 23.5 mpg from the first filling till the day I let the oil change and 26.4 since then. I changed nothing in my driving habits on the contrary drove the first 3 tkm carefully with summer tyres and had two longer journeys in Germany on the Autobahn with 170 - 180 km/h and winter tyres in the measurement period since the oil change.
I am not sure if the reduce in fuel consumption will give a business case (perhaps if I had done it myself) but a fact that is difficult to deny is that there is an obviously reduction of friction in the engine (if it's not the phase of the moon or something other spiritual reasons ) which shouldn't be bad for it.
I have now over 22 tkm on the clock, using the car for 6 months now (which is also the age of it).
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(perhaps if I had done it myself) but a fact that is difficult to deny is that there is an obviously reduction of friction in the engine (if it's not the phase of the moon or something other spiritual reasons 
) which shouldn't be bad for it.
