Ford recommends 7,500 miles between oil changes

[Bo Loo]

According to this article, Ford has revised the interval between oil changes to 7,500 miles...



I use Mobile1 and usually change every 5,000 - 6,000 miles with the highest grade filter available in the store.

 

[EddieS'04]

With a good synthetic you can go 10k. Change the filter @ 5k and add a quart..

 

[Doctor CAD]

Been saying that for years.



Why waste oil needlessly.

 

[Roger Batts]

I work at a Ford dealership in the parts department and this is the first I've heard of this!

 

[Fudged Undies]

What fast Eddie said. If you're going to do it more often dino oil will do just fine.

 

[2]

I work at a Ford dealership in the parts department and this is the first I've heard of this!

Go out and read a maintenance manual out of an 08 F150, my 08 F150 recommends these extended intervals.

 

[Andy Chase]

I believe the manual for my 93 F-150 recommended 5000mile oil changes, than after 100K miles, switch to 7500. But it also said for extreme driving (heat, towing etc) 3000.

 

[Todd Z]

any thing to cut the maintenance costs.....



Todd Z

 

[Joe Ray]

The 08 trac also states 7500. They are apparently using a synthetic blend.

 

[Axel Deneselya]

damm just had mine changed at the dealer.

 

[Kevin Palmer]

Same here,,,

Always use synthetic, around 7000 miles or so I start to make arrangements to get it changed. I rotate my tires every other oil change.



I got 68,000 miles on my tires for my Trac before I replaced them and 87,000 on my Lexus before I changed them, (They NEEDED changed about 5000 miles earlier though).

 

[Clay Campbell]

if you waiting 7500 to change your oil i would rotate your tires every change. cant hurt and its not much effort

 

[Dreman]

I believe the manual for my 93 F-150 recommended 5000mile oil changes, than after 100K miles, switch to 7500.

Why would the oil change interval get longer after 100k miles? I would think it would go the other way!

 

[Andy Chase]

I don't know the exact reason, but I know the manual says you can go longer after 100K

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Dreman,



The reason the maint period can be extended after 100k miles is because of engine break-in/down. At a certain point the break-down of the engine parts has started to plataeu (think of a curve that starts big then settles out over time to almost flat)...that curve is the engine part break-down. The break-down is most substantial during the first 5k to 10k miles as everything is broken in, and continues to lessen over time/with more miles.



That's my theory anyway.



TJR

 

[Johnny O]

I still have a hard time going over 5000 miles with any oil because I want to get the dirt out. Lately I've been running Motorcraft Blend in everything although I put Valvoline Synthetic in the last time and I will get a used oil analysis after 5000 and see what it looks like.

For me it's just a difference of changing oil three times a year or two. Not a big deal.

On my old '05 Trac I once tried Mobil 1 Truck & SUV oil, ran it 5000 and got a UOA, Blackstone's report was utterly awful for wear metals and they recommended I only run it for 3000 miles. :blink:

At that point I had already put in Pennzoil Platinum synthetic and the 5000 mile UOA proved to be very good. So if you want to use Mobil 1 just get the regular stuff and not the Truck & SUV.

My dad's Cadillac has an oil life monitor that shows the percentage remaining, once we ran it down to about 3% and 12,000 miles just for kicks with Pennzoil Platinum in it and the UOA was fine. I will note that Cadillac Northstars hold 7.5 quarts.

 

[Jackie Beene]

My 1993 Honda DelSol had a recommendation of 7500 mile interval for oil change.



Jackie