Just to let everyone know that it is okay for your car to go over 3000 miles without chaning oil. The oil ccompany say that is so that they can make money off of you. Your car should be able to go up to 5000miles without and problem any problem. Plus the oil will still be good as 3000miles. 7000miles is when significant problem may start occuring. So mainly you will be safe if you go over 3000miles. 7000miles is when you maybe want to start changing ur oil.

 

it might cost me 11$ to change my oil.........i do it every 2500 miles too..........its better to be safe than sorry.

 

youre better off going 5k with synthetic and at least a decent Fram filter though.

 

That's not being safe. That's being ultra paranoid.

 

eh paraniod huh.........thats alrite thou Sacs i use fram filters and usually castrol oil.....not synth but if u change every 3K it shouldnt matter

 

well, synthetic will leave less residue on the internals, an dsimply lubricates better, so it is better to use it. and it costs a little more than 2x as much, so if you go about 5-7k instead of 2500, it costs damn near the same. but if youre paranoid, go 7k and change the filter at 3500.

 

Well, I'm reading my owner's manual and it says "Every 3,000 miles (5,000 km) or 3 months." So whatever consumer reports you guys are reading cool, it's your engine. However I'm going to change my oil 3K like my Bible says to. Like that guy up top said, "better to be safe than sorry."

 

If anyone notices how dirty their oil is after 3k miles, I don't think they would let it go longer. But some people never change their own oil, so they never see it. I'll put up a before and after sometime. And I'm tired and have a headache. Bedtime.

 

Syn will also increase ur mpg too thats what i heard from other civic forum. This one dude drive a 2003 civic and he said with regular oil he gets about 32-35 city and with syn he got 40mpg in city.

 

If you have a well maintained engine, 3,000 miles won't dirty up the oil at all. Doing good engine work and keeping everything maintained correctly will extend the life of your oil, be it synthetic or standard. And as for never seeing my own oil, I'm guessing I do more oil changes in a week than you do in a year (obviously not all on my own car). But every 2,500 miles on synth IS paranoid.