Timeline for Why don't we rotate tyres but you rotate tires?
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| Nov 12, 2017 at 13:35 | comment | added | user29824 | Tyres lasting only 10k miles? If my tIres lasted less than about 40k I would think I had been ripped off. I had a set go 13 years and 50k. | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 15:48 | comment | added | user4896 | @caesay please tell me where I claimed oil monitoring systems "know how clean the oil is" because that is not what I said: I specifically stated "based on driving conditions." They look at the recommended interval, and adjust based on driving conditions that may make the oil wear out faster or slower than average. Even then, it is just a guess, and probably a conservative one at that. | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 10:30 | comment | added | Rory Alsop | Pete - my cars in the UK have all been 10000 miles or 7000 miles for oil changes. And my tires have been always been changed around 10000 miles as that's when they start to get towards the mark, or it's coming up for winter, so worth changing them anyway. | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 9:27 | comment | added | caesay | 3000mi (or 5000km) is the spec for older vehicles (<2007). 5000mi (or 8000km) is the manufacturer spec for newer vehicles in Ford of Canada, but they ship with a semi-synthetic oil from the factory. If you go back to regular crude oil you should get it changed slightly more often, if you go to a full synthetic you can get away with longer intervals. However, don't switch oils in an engine with >100k miles on it. The engine seals have broken in at that point and the shock of a new oil can cause leaks or tears in the seals. | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 9:25 | comment | added | caesay | @Snowman: that's a valid assumption but you're not correct. Cars don't have any monitoring to know how clean the oil is, they make a guess based on how how many miles the manufacturer recommends between oil changes. (better hope your mechanic resets your oil timer too!) Usually more important factors can include how aggressive you drive, what kind of oil you use, and what kind of weather conditions you live in. | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 22:21 | comment | added | hobbs | No one recommends 3,000 mile oil changes except for the places trying to sell them, and no one actually does it. The manufacturer recommendation on my car is 10,000 miles. | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 4:22 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | @alephzero I'm running a car in the hot desert on 0W-20. That's what the manual says. Synthetic, 10,000 miles, natural, 5,000 miles. The synthetic isn't twice the price and it also saves the time of having it done. | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 22:35 | comment | added | user4896 | 3,000 miles between oil changes? This is not the 1980s. Most newer vehicles have oil monitoring and they tell you, based on driving conditions, when they need an oil change. My car just informed me this past week it needs one, around 7,000 miles since its last oil change. Before that, the interval was 10,000 miles. | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 17:53 | comment | added | alephzero | Another major difference between the UK and most of the US is the climate. Both the annual temperature range, and the average temperature, are much less extreme in the UK. That also affects oil change intervals, of course - 18,000 miles is fairly typical. My own car (European designed) only burns half a liter of oil between 18,000 changes after 100,000 miles, and the oil looks just as clean after 18,000 as it did after 1,000. UK/US oil specifications may also be different - you might not want to run a car in hot desert conditions on 0W-30 oil, but the UK doesn't have any hot deserts! | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 15:41 | comment | added | J... | Cross rotation is fine with symmetric tread. The only time you do a front-back rotate is with directional tires. | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 15:24 | history | answered | PeteCon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |