Oil Change at 5,000

[PaintShaker]

For those of you doing the “early” oil changes, are you switching out the filters too. Reason I ask is two-fold, the Mopar ones are kinda pricy.
I only have 25000 on my eco, but want to start doing more
Frequent changes at 5,000. I am going ti be going on a month long, 8,000 mile trip this summer, and want to change at 5,000. Draining and refilling is easy in a campground, but any complications with the filter (breaking the housing, leaky filter, etc, will really EFFF up the trip. Thoughts?

Also, any suggestions on a re-usable air filter.

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[Rusty PW]

Change the filter at every oil change. Plus change the fuel filter at every 10,000 miles. Some will say every oil change.

Changing the oil filter isn't that hard.

 

[nanook12]

I was in the middle of BC Canada on a long trip and just went to a dealer there and had the oil changed.

 

[Oil_Burner]

Change the filter at every oil change. Plus change the fuel filter at every 10,000 miles. Some will say every oil change.

Changing the oil filter isn't that hard.

If you had your high pressure fuel pump recall completed, they tell you that the fuel filter interval changes from 20,000 miles to 10,000 miles.

 

[Hunter#1]

First oil and filter change at 2k second oil and filter around 6k, third will be done at 10k . I have a total of 9200 k on the Glad now. Plus I get it done by the dealer. This way it gets the right chit put in and on it. During the school year I do a lot of short trips, spring , summer at the beach with longer trips.

 

[DylanM]

Change the oil filter with every oil change. It's not difficult to do, and unlike the 3.6 with its plastic oil cooler, cracking the housing really is no concern. To avoid making a dog's breakfast of things when swapping out the filter, unscrew it just a smidge past where it gets noticeably easy to turn then leave it sit for at least five minutes to drain. Once drained you can finish removing the old filter and install the new one.

As for your reusable air filter recommendation, I'd recommend you stick with a stock filter element instead and leave the reusable ones to the offroad racers that rebuild or replace their engines every year.

 

[Splenda]

I did my first change at 600 miles. My second was 5000 miles. I really liked when we did 3000-mile oil changes, because I could rotate my tires at the same time. Trying to remember every 3000 and every 5000 is tough.

 

[Flyboy2109]

My first change at 1500 miles then my interval will be 5,000. I use K & N filters. May not be true now but used to be that OEM filters were cheap junk, even though the OEM raves that we should use them .

Would like to hear more on filter quality if somebody else knows better than I.

 

[Splenda]

I've actually been using the Fram Synthetic Endurance, which are more $4 more expensive than the Mopar filter at my local Walmart. I compared them, and the filter media seems better on the Fram than the Mopar.

 

[DylanM]

I've actually been using the Fram Synthetic Endurance, which are more $4 more expensive than the Mopar filter at my local Walmart. I compared them, and the filter media seems better on the Fram than the Mopar.

The subject of this thread (and subforum) is the 3.0 ecodiesel... different oil filter entirely.

 

[Splenda]

The subject of this thread (and subforum) is the 3.0 ecodiesel... different oil filter entirely.

Please disregard anything I said. Completely irrelevant.

 

[Flyboy2109]

Please disregard anything I said. Completely irrelevant.

Don't worry about that, I did not notice that was his vehicle either and I appreciated the filter comments made for the 3.6.

 

[starrskream]

You know what is more expensive than 50 oil changes? A new engine.
Changing oil often is the best preventative maintenance you can do for any engine. Be it a race car or a lawn mower.

When I bought my truck I changed it at 500,1000,3000 and every time the dash says somewhere between 40-50% oil life.
its 64$ at my dealer. I had 5 free changes (mopar + dealer) when I bought it. They scratched my dash replacing radio and as an “I’m sorry” they fixed the dash and gave me 5 more free ones.
Free or not I’d still change often as I have. It cannot hurt. Only help.

 

[DylanM]

Please disregard anything I said. Completely irrelevant.

No need to jump directly to "ignore everything I said" mode, I just don't want to see some diesel owner get the false hope that there are truly cheap filter options for their 3.0L readily available at their local Wally World due to a misunderstanding.

 

[Wildtoad]

" I have a total of 9200 k on the Glad now". 9200k miles? That's 9,200,000 miles (plus or minus). Dang, shoulda bought a diesel.

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