5000 mile “service”. What do?

[Gren71]

For what its worth, i just go by the on board oil life meter. That usually has me changing it between 6-9k miles depending my driving. I have noticed the interval is shorter when I tow more often. Happy the truck seems to account for that.

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[ShadowsPapa]

For what its worth, i just go by the on board oil life meter. That usually has me changing it between 6-9k miles depending my driving. I have noticed the interval is shorter when I tow more often. Happy the truck seems to account for that.

Good info.
I don't tow often enough for it to have made a big difference on mine and I haven't compared miles driven to percentage of life left - but then most of my driving is not that abusive anyway. I'd bet that for most of the year, mine is close to 9,000-10,000 miles by that gauge.

 

[NachoRuby]

Did my first at 1k. Second will be 4k later, then every 5k after that. An oil change if done yourself on a gasser should run you $35. If my truck hits 200k I will have spent an extra $500 on maintenance compared to you 7,500 mile guys. Is it overkill? Yea. But it's also dirt cheap insurance. Quarter of a penny per mile in "extra" oil

Do what you want (and I mean that sincerely, not as a smart@**). I'm a "change it when the light comes on" kind of guy. But it usually works out to no more than a 1000 or so beyond what you're doing.

For what its worth, i just go by the on board oil life meter. That usually has me changing it between 6-9k miles depending my driving. I have noticed the interval is shorter when I tow more often. Happy the truck seems to account for that.

Same here. Usually end up being 6000-7000 miles.

 

[OngsterA]

For what its worth, i just go by the on board oil life meter. That usually has me changing it between 6-9k miles depending my driving. I have noticed the interval is shorter when I tow more often. Happy the truck seems to account for that.

I'll be towing more this year, my track car on trailer, will see how the engine monitoring changes on intervals, plus we have hot summers here. Still, I'm going by OEM recommendations and full synthetics, in my case 0W20.

Replacing the trusty Xterra, and looking into a Featherlite or other alum trailer.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I'll be towing more this year, my track car on trailer, will see how the engine monitoring changes on intervals, plus we have hot summers here. Still, I'm going by OEM recommendations and full synthetics, in my case 0W20.

Replacing the trusty Xterra, and looking into a Featherlite or other alum trailer.

Hot climate, towing - make sure you use an oil with a high thermal breakdown threshold. A good quality synthetic generally is better at that than conventional oils, but there are quality conventional oils that actually have higher thermal breakdown thresholds than some of the less than great synthetics.

My Aluma tilt-bed is 1500 pounds, 18' as shipped. I figure with spare tire, tool box, tools and straps my trailer is 1600 pound.

LOVE the tilt bed! will never go back to ramps.

Your car would be a breeze to load and haul.
This isn't my car or video, but I have one of these trailers and after having this, I'll never go any other direction -



This is mine -

Front receiver makes maneuvering and parking the trailer in the really narrow tight spot a breeze -

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