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Posted by:
Joe Jeoffroy
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
09:16 am | Auot mfgs. suggest changing oil at so many miles or months, whichever comes first. (3,000 mi. or 3 months)I change the wing by miles unless storing. Do you follow a time interval on your wing? Think it's necessary on a cage? |
Posted by:
Wayne Stewart
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
10:00 am | No & NO -miliage only for me
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Posted by:
Albert Schuman
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
10:37 am | Car and truck by mileage, I have never driven few enough miles to do it on the one year time interval. The bike gets it once a year at lay up time unless I get to the mileage interval. Mower goes on engine hours, something I`d like to see on the other units as well. |
Posted by:
Raymond Sykes
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
11:30 am | Mileage unless it has been sitting for more than a few years untouched.
Yes I have changed a few bikes oil that had not been run in 10 to 25 years. |
Posted by:
Curtis Pierce
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
11:42 am | By mileage for me. I don't even concern myself with winter time storage either. When it's due (like right now) I will change it and be good until the next 8k miles are put on the bike, which at this time of the year will probably be next May/June.
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Posted by:
Ronald Hogle
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
11:53 am | I change the oil every 5,000 miles, whether it is 4 months or 1 year.
Of course let's hope it doesn't take me a year to put on 5,000 miles.
I might consider time if I only put 5,000 miles on it in two years, then I wouldn't want the bike sitting with old oil in it for a long period of time.
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Posted by:
Thomas Jens
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
12:40 pm | BY MILEAGE, OIL AND FILTER, EVERY 3,000 MILES.
ALSO BEFORE AND AFTER WE GET BACK FROM A LONG TRIP REGARDLESS OF MILEAGE.
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Posted by:
Dick Fraser
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
01:19 pm | mileage here.
I have a target of every 3000 miles, however in practice it is usually between 3500 and 4500 miles before it gets changed |
Posted by:
Joe Rovito
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
02:15 pm | By mileage or time which ever one comes first. My 2nd. car I changed every 6 months but most of the time I would only have 500 to 1,000 miles on it. I just sold that car about 3 months because I didn't use it enough to keep it. My bike is usually by mileage (3000) my SUV is all most always by mileage (30000) also. Really we are all wasting oil by doing it at 3,000 miles. most manufactures recommend at least 4 or 5000 miles between changes, my Pontiac recommended 7,500 miles between changes. I do 3,000, I guess old habits are hard to break.
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Posted by:
Byron Patterson
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
02:40 pm | Currently my car gets changed on time. I put less than 3,000 miles on during 3 months and I have free maintenance coupons that expire if not used.
Normally I change based on miles and I push the miles from 3000 to 5000.
The only exception is when the bike is put away for the year it gets a fresh oil change no matter the miles. |
Posted by:
Carl Munkwitz
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
02:51 pm | Miles...
Every 5000 to 8000 depending on how lazy I am and where I have been....
I try to "time" my last seasonal oil change for the end of the year so I can change the oil and store  my bike for he winter on a fresh zero mile oil change. Then in spring I just take her out and start riding....
Right now that timing looks to be at about 4500 to 5500 miles depending on whe the snow starts flying around here....
once the roads are salted I put the bike away until the spring rain washes it off.
I aim for 5000 miles just because it is easy to remember...I use synthetic oil for it's extended change cycles...so at 80K and then at 85K and so on...
If I am out on the road (like in August of this year) when the oil is due I just ride until I get home and then change it...sometimes I change at 4000 miles too if the timing is right(wrong?).
But an oil change is about $20 so it's not a lot of money...
($19 per gallon of oil and $2.84 for the filter)
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Posted by:
Dennis Zattiero
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
04:33 pm | Everyone herein is correct in that all are monitoring the mileage and time the oil is used. In a perfect world, we might send a sample in to a lab for analysis before changing. These bikes don't wear the oil and the oil quality is so much better than 20 years ago. We probably could go 10,000 miles without harming anything but why risk it. I change oil between 2,500 and 5,000 miles and/or before winter storage. Cheap insurance for the motor/transmission. |
Posted by:
James Jones
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
04:47 pm | I change my MC every 6,000 miles and install 3.9 quarts of Castrol GTX 10W-40 motor oil and a new Walley World oil filter. I change the oil in my Honda CRV every 10,000 miles.
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Posted by:
Dredsel Walters
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
05:53 pm | Most new cars have an oil life indicator. My STS has about 7,000 on the oil and is showing %60 life left. I have seen some go up to 17,000 before it indicated less than %10 left. Most Wing owners probably waste oil money, but it is cheap comfort. I change my Wing at 4,000 and my Harley at 5,000 because that's what the factory calls for( or once a year).
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Posted by:
William Warren
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
06:19 pm | Miles here. Used to be 3,000 but I've retrained myself considering the quality of newer oils and filters and cleaner roads and longer lasting engines ... it's 5,000 or there abouts now.
Time only on my old truck which was used maybe 1000 miles in a year or my Triumph which may set a year unused. Tank on Triumph is Kreemed, I always have turned fuel off and run her dry and drain the carbs and tank before parking on the center stand.
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Posted by:
Quentin Wyler
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
06:32 pm | Dredsel,
Agreed. I used to take our SLS to the dealer for an oil change every 3000 miles and always used Mobil 1. Then I finally found a maintenance tech that said to use the oil life indicator and only change it when it gets down to 25%....and I was amazed to find out that the thing would go to 8 to 9 thousand before it said to change the oil........JMHO |
Posted by:
Gene Bonnes
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
06:37 pm | I avg. about 15,000 per year on my GW and change every 5K as that eliminates keeping track, i.e. 5K, 10K, 15K, etc. I use Shell Rottela synthetic which is probably overkill but it gives me a peace of mind. My 03 had 104K trouble free miles before being totalled 3 months ago. Plan on the same schedule with the new one after the break in oil is changed. |
Posted by:
Doug Wessel
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
08:34 pm | So, most of you do not change before putting away for winter if not due by milage? I probably have less than 1,500 since change and probably won't ride anymore this year as they have already salted many roads around here.
I have been debating this to myself this year. |
Posted by:
Martin Larson
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
11:40 pm | Y'all can dump your oil at 3k for dino, and syn at 5k if you want, not me. No more stress and strain as these engines gets, I push mine on dino to 5k, and I'm about to go to Valvoline synthetic and don't plan on changing before 8K. Filter changes at 5k, but I am not dumping perfectly good oil simply out of some Honda manual's statement. IMO, we waste a ton of good lubes doing this stuff cuz everybody else does. JM2c martin
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Posted by:
Neil Ball
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
01:26 am | I do the same as Gene, about every 5,000 miles on the bike with synthetic.
The car was changed the 1st week of February this year and only has about 2000 miles on it since then. If it wouldn't be for the daughter borrowing the car there wouldn't be 500 miles on the car since then. Time to change it now for the winter. |
Posted by:
Jim Mick
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
03:37 am | Miles only. I don't store mine during the winter here in MI.
At 213,000 miles on our '94 I have changed at 5,000 mile intervals when using dino oil and 10,000 intervals when using synthetic. It still requires no additional oil between changes using this system so that's the same system we have used on our '02 which has about 90,000 miles. |
Posted by:
Bud Stilwell
Thursday, October 22, 2009
01:33 am | Every 3,000 miles with Rotella T
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Posted by:
Duane Santiago
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
10:24 am | Jim Mick
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