Monday, September 19, 2011

How many miles do you have to drive on an oil change...?

For it to mess up an engine. I change mine regularly but was wondering how long it would take to break and engine and what parts would go first. This is assuming that the there is no oil burnoff or decrease in the oil level.How many miles do you have to drive on an oil change...?It depends on the vehicle. An air cooled VW would probably die after 30,000 miles. A water cooled engine would probably last 50,000 or so miles. I have known people who never change their oil, they just add it, but that is a different story because oil is being replaced.How many miles do you have to drive on an oil change...?It depends really on if its synthetic or regular oil, also depends on how you drive the car. The oil will break down first loosing it's detergent to keep the oil clean along with the engine this will start the sludge problem and from there the oil burns off from lack of circulation due to sludge. So maybe 10,000 to 30,000 miles.How many miles do you have to drive on an oil change...?that depends on the conditions the engine operates in. for instance an engine that is used for short trips wont last as long on the same oil as an engine that is constantly used for long trips. the reason for this is that oil has an operating temperature as does the engine, and short trips dont allow the oil to get up to the proper operating temperature so that liquid contaminants in the oil can be burned off.



also an engine that operates in a heavily dusty environment wont last as long as an engine that operates light dusty environment.



one more thing that you have to take into account is driving style. if you constantly drive like jeff gordon in his company car, your engine wont last as long as if you drove the car far more gently.How many miles do you have to drive on an oil change...?Depends on many factors, heat, wear of the engine, if the oil is synthetic, semi synthetic or regular oil, the grade of the oil, how many cylinders the engine has, how it is driven, if the area being driven is dusty or all paved. All those factors play a part, higher heat, driven hard then the oil breaks down quicker.



Generally for a regular gasoline piston engine the first parts of the engine that would break down would be the piston rings, they are rather flimsy and need a layer of oil or they will break and start sending pieces into the oil pan and scratching the cylinder walls. The crankshaft and crankshaft bearings need to be lubricated, without that spinning freely and no pieces of debris, like broken pieces of piston rings, the engine will seize up and you're left with a big paperweight. The valves and valvetrains also need to be lubricated or the top end will stick a valve and damage a piston.How many miles do you have to drive on an oil change...?Anywhere between 12,000 and 18,000 miles. You would probably throw a rod when the motor oil became thick black sludge.How many miles do you have to drive on an oil change...?Depends on the car. My old truck would certainly die after 6000 miles. It burnt a quart of oil per 3000 miles.



My new car doesn't consume any oil at all, and specifies an oil change every 5000 miles. I bet it would run for 30,000-50,000 miles before completely breaking(synthetic oil). It would probably run like crap after about 15,000 and who knows if it would return to normal after an oil change.

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