Oil change MONTHS

[Hootbro]

I really wish this information was in PDF form somewhere?

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[ErylFlynn]

I really wish this information was in PDF form somewhere?

Yep I looked and could not find it. Not easy to find if it is in there.

 

[Hootbro]

Yep I looked and could not find it. Not easy to find if it is in there.

Not trying to be smarmy, but they are not hiding it. In the Service and Maintenance section under "Engine Oil" and "Changing Engine Oil".

 

[jac04]

Not trying to be smarmy, but they are not hiding it. In the Service and Maintenance section under "Engine Oil" and "Changing Engine Oil".

... and you can even get to the Owner's Manual just sitting at your computer.

For the OP's 2023 JT:
https://www.mopar.com/jeep/en-us/my-vehicle/owners-manual.html

 

[Watrmel0nBandit]

Hot and humid here in Tennessee, plus lots of short trips. My commute is 7 miles each way, and everything in town is within two miles of the house. It takes me a lot of little trips to add up to 5000 miles.

Short trips are going to be your issue.
I would change every 6 months if I was only putting a few miles on the motor daily.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Short trips are going to be your issue.
I would change every 6 months if I was only putting a few miles on the motor daily.

the oil life monitor actually is "smart enough" to recognize this. Mine drops faster when I tow, or short drives in cold weather.
normally 10,000 miles is 100% and when you hit 5,000 miles it's at 50%
But - I've noted when I hit what they probably consider "severe" conditions, 5,000 miles may show me with only 35% left.
It really does compensate - it's not just tracking miles and going 1% for every hundred miles.
The oil change before this one, I was at 7,100 miles and it should have shown me with 29% left if it was mile for mile - but is showed only 19% left. It cut off a full 10%

 

[RHINO79]

I must be the extreme, 3,000 or 6 months for my 23&24

 

[ross neill]

If you cranked and heated up to running temperature once a week oil should last two years when I own a car with a ice engine it would last two years but sometimes it would crank ice to heat oil if ice hadn’t ran

 

[KrispyKotex]

Can anyone answer how accurate and how often does the "Oil life" indicate when to change it? Couple months ago, my oil change sticker came off my inner windshield. My oil life says I have 40% remaining. Does anybody pay attention to this and just go by that?

 

[my dog Trigger]

8 months on the lot is crazy but gladiator demand is very low atm. The easiest thing now is just whenever the car tells you it's time for maintenance.

My 2023 JTRD sat on the lot for 444 days before I bought it

 

[ShadowsPapa]

If you cranked and heated up to running temperature once a week oil should last two years when I own a car with a ice engine it would last two years but sometimes it would crank ice to heat oil if ice hadn’t ran

LOL - ouch, no, sorry, absolutely doesn't work that way. You are better off not running it at all than to start and run it until the oil is just up to temperature. You are asking for more trouble your way.
I also don't know where you get the bit "oil would last 2 years" - you sniff tested it? Tasted it?
Nope, it's a proven thing over many years - starting and idling until the oil is warm is trouble. Just let it sit is far better.
Running, idling, puts the byproducts of combustion such as fuel contamination, moisture and so on into the crankcase. It takes TIME and real heat you never realize during idling to burn that out of the crankcase. The oil in these never really gets warm enough to do that without a load anyway, they idle cool as far as the oil.
You are giving horrible advice no classic car enthusiast would ever use - they know better.
Horrible advice and I sincerely hope no one ever follows that advice. Really bad.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Can anyone answer how accurate and how often does the "Oil life" indicate when to change it? Couple months ago, my oil change sticker came off my inner windshield. My oil life says I have 40% remaining. Does anybody pay attention to this and just go by that?

See my other posts - it's pretty darned accurate as it tracks idle time, how much load it's been under (like towing, I can watch it go down faster), short drives, how hot the oil has been, that sort of thing.
Change before this one, I had just over 7,100 miles and the oil life monitor said I was at 19% - when if it was just going by miles it would have said 29%
It's accurate.

 

[ross neill]

LOL - ouch, no, sorry, absolutely doesn't work that way. You are better off not running it at all than to start and run it until the oil is just up to temperature. You are asking for more trouble your way.
I also don't know where you get the bit "oil would last 2 years" - you sniff tested it? Tasted it?
Nope, it's a proven thing over many years - starting and idling until the oil is warm is trouble. Just let it sit is far better.
Running, idling, puts the byproducts of combustion such as fuel contamination, moisture and so on into the crankcase. It takes TIME and real heat you never realize during idling to burn that out of the crankcase. The oil in these never really gets warm enough to do that without a load anyway, they idle cool as far as the oil.
You are giving horrible advice no classic car enthusiast would ever use - they know better.
Horrible advice and I sincerely hope no one ever follows that advice. Really bad.

My Chevy volt owners manual recommended oil change every two years or 25000 mile it had a oil life monitor

 

[ShadowsPapa]

My Chevy volt owners manual recommended oil change every two years or 25000 mile it had a oil life monitor

You are comparing apples to rocks here. 25,000 miles is including the ELECTRIC range in which the engine doesn't run. Even at that, with most PHEVs, you run into horrible oil troubles if you don't run that gas engine long and hard enough to burn out contaminations.
You can't even suggest that following that they silly GM manual says for a real gas engine in a non-hybrid.
We own a PHEV - and if you don't run the engine long enough often enough, it FORCES it to run - and even at that, 25,000 miles? That's an absolute joke. No way.
Can't believe you'd compare a tiny 1.5 liter hybrid engine to a real engine in a fully gas vehicle. I bet GM finds a lot of trouble with those in the end. They are asking for trouble.

 

[Splenda]

I must be the extreme, 3,000 or 6 months for my 23&24

I might start using this schedule myself, since I rarely drive at interstate speeds.

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