20,000 mile oil changes?

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Has anyone tried this oil? Any thoughts?
mobile one 20,000 mile oil guaranteed*!
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mobile one extended oil filter
Mobil 1 Extended Performance Oil Filters offer the ultimate protection for your engine – especially when used with Mobil 1™ fully synthetic motor oil. In fact, a Mobil 1 Extended Performance oil filter can provide one full year* of guaranteed protection when used with Mobil 1™ Annual Protection motor oil. Though not required, this filter meets the requirements of the Mobil 1 Annual Protection limited warranty and is the perfect companion product for longer-lasting protection. Our advanced performance oil filters use synthetic blend media, which leave your vehicle with cleaner oil and an engine that performs better and lasts longer. For a full list of our Mobil 1 Extended Performance Oil Filters, see below. We stand behind our products. Read the Mobil 1 Extended Performance oil filter limited warranty.

'Bought to do my first oil change with my bjowett oil filter. Need to order supplies.
 
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Why?
 
I want my engine to last much longer than 20k miles.
 
I only got 260k miles on mine and want to reach 600k to break even. I am a sucker for marketing claims, its only $1 more per 5 quarts. If there is a reason to doubt please let me know. I was a mobile one fan on my twin turbo V12 with mobile one 0W40.
 
It takes me 3 years to drive 20k miles. Lol that would be a long ass time between oil changes. I go by time.. every 5 months or so
 
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I drive 20-30k/year. More if I have free time. One of the reasons I love my bruiser.
 
Reckless said:
Has anyone tried this oil? Any thoughts?
mobile one 20,000 mile oil guaranteed*!
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mobile one extended oil filter
Mobil 1 Extended Performance Oil Filters offer the ultimate protection for your engine – especially when used with Mobil 1™ fully synthetic motor oil. In fact, a Mobil 1 Extended Performance oil filter can provide one full year* of guaranteed protection when used with Mobil 1™ Annual Protection motor oil. Though not required, this filter meets the requirements of the Mobil 1 Annual Protection limited warranty and is the perfect companion product for longer-lasting protection. Our advanced performance oil filters use synthetic blend media, which leave your vehicle with cleaner oil and an engine that performs better and lasts longer. For a full list of our Mobil 1 Extended Performance Oil Filters, see below. We stand behind our products. Read the Mobil 1 Extended Performance oil filter limited warranty.

'Bought to do my first oil change with my bjowett oil filter. Need to order supplies.
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But if you go 20K just think of all the times you'll miss playing with your new Jowett gizmo. :rofl:
 
I change it every 5,000 miles whether it needs it or not. I know, some may says it’s a waste of money but I think it’s cheap insurance. Clean oil is better than dirty oil synthetic or not IMHO.
 
Buy it, run it, after 10k miles (which is the Toyota recommended interval), drain a small sample and send it off to Blackstone labs for analysis (make sure to ask for a TBN as well). That will tell you how much protection is still left in the oil, and you can decide to either change it as per the Toyota recommendation or keep running it as per Mobil.

Downside is the Blackstone analysis costs about $35 IIRC.

I wouldn't run it 20k miles but that's in part because of time
 
Hey y’all, long time lurker but I thought I’d chime in on this oil thing. I run that oil for 15-20k miles a year and send in a sample to black stone every change. It always comes back with plenty of life left in the oil. This is in a 2000 4unner v6 with over 200k miles now. I do this mostly to save my own time as I end up changing about once a year and to have concrete data on engine health. It’s not really a money thing, more of a trust thing with shops and my own laziness. I plan to continue this on all vehicles that aren’t in extreme service conditions(towing, racing).

hope that helps.
 
Regardless of life promised - be careful about "for engines with 75000". I wouldn't put this in my car (regardless mileage) because this oil had "stop leak" type of additives. If you have leaks - by all means. But if your engine is dry - don't use this one, use their other oils.
 
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Regardless of life promised - be careful about "for engines with 75000". I wouldn't put this in my car (regardless mileage) because this oil had "stop leak" type of additives. If you have leaks - by all means. But if your engine is dry - don't use this one, use their other oils.
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Actually, I didn’t notice the “for engines over 75000”. I’m 90% sure I have been using the regular extended performance full synthetic.
 
katit said:
Regardless of life promised - be careful about "for engines with 75000". I wouldn't put this in my car (regardless mileage) because this oil had "stop leak" type of additives. If you have leaks - by all means. But if your engine is dry - don't use this one, use their other oils.
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Interesting, my vehicle has 260k miles. I am not aware of any leaks. Is there a place I should check other than underneath the vehicle?
 
Thanks cancelled order. Ordering extended performance.
 
I’ve used it the past 3 years and been happy with it. Still change about every 5 months which may be a waste but I i 2nd the note of cheap insurance.

now the “stop leak” part I’d never heard of. I do have a slight cam leak but never been worth fixing because my oils level has never been low. Now wondering if the “stop leak” has been what’s been helping? Who knows, any idea what is so bad about “stop leak”?
 
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I’ve used it the past 3 years and been happy with it. Still change about every 5 months which may be a waste but I i 2nd the note of cheap insurance.

now the “stop leak” part I’d never heard of. I do have a slight cam leak but never been worth fixing because my oils level has never been low. Now wondering if the “stop leak” has been what’s been helping? Who knows, any idea what is so bad about “stop leak”?
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The other name for stop leak in these oils is “seal sweller” because the way it stops leaks is to cause rubber seals to expand. This expansion lowers their density and makes the rubber softer, which increases wear rate.

Basically it is a bandaid fix, and may cause other problems down the road.
 
bloc said:
The other name for stop leak in these oils is “seal sweller” because the way it stops leaks is to cause rubber seals to expand. This expansion lowers their density and makes the rubber softer, which increases wear rate.

Basically it is a bandaid fix, and may cause other problems down the road.
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Guess I’ll try the regular version next time and see if my leak gets worse. Thanks for the info, really never had heard of it. Figured the 75k+ thing was just sales gimic
 
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