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Originally Posted by MTG#10
I'm glad this was brought up.
I recently purchased a 2011 F150. I've always changed the oil in every vehicle I've ever owned every 3-4k miles but I'm at 3000 now and the truck's computer is telling me it's "oil life" is still at 75%. Should I listen to it or change the oil anyway? According to the manual I should base oil changes on the system info (computers) recommendation. I know for a fact it has regular oil in it, not synthetic.
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Brought that up with a dealer one day when I took it in for other routine maintenance... the manual says "at least once per year" or when the computer says so, a lot of people say 5k or even 10k is fine these days, the computer says I'm at 60% life.... and they still tried to convince me that it's strictly every 3k, of course so I could have them do it for some stupid price.
And even then, 3k is so ingrained, I kind of felt bad waiting for 5k, and even then the computer's still at like 40% remaining.
New car is 15k or one year, and I'll definitely hit one year first.