The truck told me I needed an oil change yesterday with 4400 kilometers on the clock.

So I booked it in at the dealer.

When i arrived and they checked the mileage... er kilometerage....they just laughed, re set the EVIC and told me to come back at 12000 KMs.

I'm thinking I should have it changed as it's new and all the driving has been around town.

I mean I don't want to drop a hundred if I don't have too....but....

What do you guys think?

 

If I bought a brand new truck, I would definitely do the first oil change way early. To me, it's the most important oil change of them all.

 

Do it now.

I always change the oil in my new rides by 500 miles the first time - I follow the next one at half the normal miles.

I got into this routine years ago when we were testing bearing ware in air cooled engines. These were going into small aircraft, but since we were testing to the failure point, it seemed prudent to mount them in a small car for testing.

500 miles equated with about 10 hours of run time. We discovered that there was almost no visual ware at this point. With fresh oil in the pan the little car was off again for 20 hours, or about 1000 miles. At which time it was opened up again for inspection.

In engines that the oil was changed at the 10 hour point, a significantly less amount of ware could be seem compared to engines that had been just ran from start to thirty hours.

The engines that did not get this 10 hour change failed much sooner than the other engines. The purpose of our testing was not to develop a oil change scheme, we were testing bearings – but I think you can make a reasonable correlation.

As always – YMMV!

My new truck arrives next week - $100 oil change or $8,000 motor - I'll be changing my oil the first week.

 

I'm going to change it......

 

I take the evic warning seriously too. I get the warning every 4000-4300 miles. The reason I take it seriously is because there is a certain amount of fuel that gets introduced into the oil because of the regens. The shorter the driving periods the more regens you get. So now I just change my oil every 4K and the fuel filter every 8k. Since I do my own maintenence it is much cheaper for me to do it this way. It's cheap insurance in the long run.

 

Thanks for the info. I've always believed in doing the first one early, but it's good to hear from someone who has actually proved that it makes a difference.

 

The company I was working for back then (35 years ago) has the data stashed in a box somewhere in a old wearhouse, I'd love to see it again. You know how it is - I was too busy fighting the gators to drain the swamp. I was the most junior engineer that worked there, (fresh out of school) so I never saw the conclusions, mostly they trusted me just enough to change the oil and put gas in the test car. Those were the days. Glad I could help.

Larry

 

Unless you are deleted I would not ignore the evic. Fuel dilution due to the 4th event is real and I personally wouldnt want to run around with a nice diesel/rotella mix.


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