At 03:59 PM 11/18/98 EST, you wrote: >Also I have >heard that if you change just your filter every 6k miles and just add the >quart of oil that comes out with the filter, that you can extend your oil >change durations from 6k miles to 10k miles or more... >Ken Wilford Somewhere I have one of the first magazine ads introducing Mobil1 (early '70s?) in which they were claiming oil changes of 25K miles/once a year...probably had to knock it off because of pressure from manufacturers (they now want you to follow mfgr's rec's)...hhmmmm, they sell more oil this way, right? Austin |
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