Oil Change
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Oil Change
I bought an 02 F250 PSD with 170,000 miles back in December. I did an oil change in January and am coming up on three months. I drove about 1200 miles in those three months, daily driving short trips between 5 and 30 miles a day. My question is do I wait to hit 3000 or 4000 miles or do the oil change at the three month interval? I just don't want to do it if it's unnecessary.
I also just received my DP Tuner and will install tomorrow, cant wait!
Thanks!!
I also just received my DP Tuner and will install tomorrow, cant wait!
Thanks!!
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I would change it at 3k. When you change it, that would be a good time to pull an oil sample and sent it out for analysis. Since you know little about the history of the maintenance, it would be good to get a baseline on what you have. If the analysis comes back normal, you can then extend out the mileage, based on the report. I use Blackstone-Labs for my analysis, cost is $25.
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I never pay attention the time the oil has been in the crankcase. Only go by miles . I really don't know why they say "3 months or 3 thousand miles, which ever comes first" This is stupid, oil doesn't go bad. Just trying to get you to change more often, I guess.
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I double that at 3000 miles, that said if you go 5000 every once and a while so be it no problem, Dino. Wait to you run that DP Tuner. I love mine and still need to update it. What tunes did you get? Good luck,
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I bought an 02 F250 PSD with 170,000 miles back in December. I did an oil change in January and am coming up on three months. I drove about 1200 miles in those three months, daily driving short trips between 5 and 30 miles a day. My question is do I wait to hit 3000 or 4000 miles or do the oil change at the three month interval? I just don't want to do it if it's unnecessary.
I also just received my DP Tuner and will install tomorrow, cant wait!
Thanks!!
I also just received my DP Tuner and will install tomorrow, cant wait!
Thanks!!
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Since you just bought the truck 3000 mile sample would be ok. After that if all's well, you can go alot more up to 10,000 JMOP.
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I bought an 02 F250 PSD with 170,000 miles back in December. I did an oil change in January and am coming up on three months. I drove about 1200 miles in those three months, daily driving short trips between 5 and 30 miles a day. My question is do I wait to hit 3000 or 4000 miles or do the oil change at the three month interval? I just don't want to do it if it's unnecessary.
I also just received my DP Tuner and will install tomorrow, cant wait!
Thanks!!
I also just received my DP Tuner and will install tomorrow, cant wait!
Thanks!!