"the oil manufacturers just love this thought process"

It's hard to glean the meaning sometimes, I mean that sincerely.

 

That was because of the special high-moly formula that Honda was shipping with because those engines needed especially high friction protection to prevent hot spots until break in was complete. This is another way of saying our machining tolerances weren't particularly good and we made up with it by shipping exotic oil. If you knew what you were doing those engines also would have benefited from early and often oil changes, you just needed to use the high-moly formula. It's not as if the glitter in the oil was helping anything.

No argument there but I stand by my statement these all still benefit from early and often oil changes. That benefit may not be realized until mile 350k+ though, it really depends. So whether or not someone cares for their purposes is different. You've made it clear in other threads that factors 150k+ miles away aren't on your radar because you move on to something else so your approach makes perfect sense for you.

 

Usually im a bit early changing oil out of new engines. Most of my 4 wheeled vehicles get one at 1k and the 2 wheels get the first at 200 miles.

No harm in running the first engine swap early. The bikes wet clutch leaves lots of swarf.

Years ago had a mate running a fleet of trucks. Had a few new engines go in at the same time, one he did early at 1k, the second he let go until 5k.
The results, no difference between the two, three years and 120k later.

Way too many variables to come a definitive. Quality oil can be had for a low price, I see no harm.

 

I recommend that you follow the manufactures service recommendations and keep all receipts and document everything you do.

Hopefully you never use your warrenty, but if you do and it is an oil related failure, you want to make sure that Ford does not try and deny coverage because you did not do the recommended maintenance.

 

I was in agreement

 

Yes, i was in agreement

 

The change engine oil message came on around 3500 miles for me.No towing, idle hours 18%...