First oil change
11-13-2012, 12:14 AM
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First oil change
I'm about to hit 6,000 miles and I haven't had my first oil change yet. I know that sounds bad BUT the built in oil life meter says I still have 47% oil life left. What should I do?
11-13-2012, 03:01 AM
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You should do what you feel comfortable. I personally would do a full Mobil 1 or Amsoil oil change with a M1 or Amsoil filter and then follow the oil life meter from then on soloing as you don't qualify for severe service duty.
11-13-2012, 09:38 AM
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If all your other posts are true about what you are doing with your truck, I would have changed it twice by now!
11-13-2012, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by BCMIF150
If all your other posts are true about what you are doing with your truck, I would have changed it twice by now!
11-14-2012, 07:00 AM
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Hello,
I am the tech manager at FRAM filtration. If it was my truck, I would change the filter and oil now using Mobil 1 or Castrol Syntec synthetic oil, a FRAM Ultra filter (or your favorite brand of extended life filter, not trying to ram my companies filters on you). Then follow your oil life monitor. Using extremely high quality oil and a oil filter that is 99% efficienct using ISO 4548-12 testing along with the filter being rated for minimum 10k oil changes (Ultra is rated for 15K) is the key to living with a oil life monitor. I have a 2004 CTS-V. I changed the oil early (3k) and did a compression and leakdown test and recorded the results. I change on the monitor (around 9300 miles) use mobil 1 and FRAM Ultra filters. just turned 70K miles, did a compression and leakdown test , numbers are great. we also pulled a valve cover and the engine is very clean inside.
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11-14-2012, 08:38 AM
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Hello,
I am the tech manager at FRAM filtration. If it was my truck, I would change the filter and oil now using Mobil 1 or Castrol Syntec synthetic oil, a FRAM Ultra filter (or your favorite brand of extended life filter, not trying to ram my companies filters on you). Then follow your oil life monitor. Using extremely high quality oil and a oil filter that is 99% efficienct using ISO 4548-12 testing along with the filter being rated for minimum 10k oil changes (Ultra is rated for 15K) is the key to living with a oil life monitor. I have a 2004 CTS-V. I changed the oil early (3k) and did a compression and leakdown test and recorded the results. I change on the monitor (around 9300 miles) use mobil 1 and FRAM Ultra filters. just turned 70K miles, did a compression and leakdown test , numbers are great. we also pulled a valve cover and the engine is very clean inside.
I am the tech manager at FRAM filtration. If it was my truck, I would change the filter and oil now using Mobil 1 or Castrol Syntec synthetic oil, a FRAM Ultra filter (or your favorite brand of extended life filter, not trying to ram my companies filters on you). Then follow your oil life monitor. Using extremely high quality oil and a oil filter that is 99% efficienct using ISO 4548-12 testing along with the filter being rated for minimum 10k oil changes (Ultra is rated for 15K) is the key to living with a oil life monitor. I have a 2004 CTS-V. I changed the oil early (3k) and did a compression and leakdown test and recorded the results. I change on the monitor (around 9300 miles) use mobil 1 and FRAM Ultra filters. just turned 70K miles, did a compression and leakdown test , numbers are great. we also pulled a valve cover and the engine is very clean inside.
As for me, I don't trust the algorithm thus I use motorcraft OEM oil and an OEM filter every 5k miles. Even the manual says to derate the monitor down from 100% to something less when doing severe duty and I tow a lot.
