The world was coming to an end just as it is now.ĪCDelco PF457 Some come with the o-ring to replace on the cover others do not. You should have heard the comments when the manufacturers changed to the 3/3K interval from the 2/2K. I have been around long enough to see oil change intervals go from 2 months/2000 miles, to 3 months/3,000 miles in the 60s through the early 90s. Even with several thousand track miles per year it only gets its oil changed once per year. It can go 1 year or 15K miles on an oil fill. The Corvette uses Mobil 1 as its factory fill and its OLM is calibrated for synthetic oil. If you use synthetic your oil change intervals would be longer than the OLM indicates. The Malibu OLM is calibrated for dyno oil not synthetic.
#2016 equinox 2.4 oil capacity full#
Since I retired I don't drive it every day so last year it went a full year on one fill of oil. It is my tow vehicle and sees some hard work during the summer when I tow my Vette to various tracks. I use the OLM as a guide on my 03 Tahoe and it has 75K miles on it. Several of them I kept for 6 years, ran them many miles at WOT on a track and only changed the oil once per year. I have been following GMs recommendations using the OLM on GM cars since 1997. I probably will change the oil somewhere around March at the current rate. It has been 6 months since I did that oil change, the mileage is just at 14K and the OLM is showing 40%. The OLM was still showing above 10% but we were leaving on a vacation trip and I didn't want to be bothered changing oil while on the trip.
On my 08 LTZ with 2.4 I did the first oil change after 11 months of ownership and 8000 miles. The temps run about 10 degrees cooler here than where you are.
Changing oil any more often is a waste of money and a hit on the environment (how often can you say being environmentally correct actually saves money). The OLM is your best guide if you are not driving in a dusty area. Just do what GM recommends and you will be treating your car well.
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