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Old 11-20-2006, 12:30 PM
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How often do you really change your oil?? The dealer recommends 10,000 is that to long for you? What do you think?
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Old 11-20-2006, 12:32 PM
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Default Waaaay too long. 6000-6500k depending on engine's mileage. If you want to know for ceartain
have Blackstone Labs do a TBN (or whatever) on your oil in addition to the usual oil analysis.
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I do 5-6K changes with M1 0w-40 myself.
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every 5K miles or so
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Default 5k with m1
oil and filter

peridocially check levels since i'm AR
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I do it every 3K W/ M1 5/30
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almost 10K HAHAHAHA
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Every 3,000 miles with Castrol GTX 10/30W (per Audi shop specs)
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Default 10k on a stock engine with good synth and proper warmup/cooldown is absolutely doable
3k with synth is wasting money. Sweet spot depends on what a UOA tells you, but 6-7.5k works.
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