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Maybe he means the automatic service interval that pops up on a lot of cars? I personally treat that one as more of a reminder to check the oil and tire pressure
Yep this is what I meant @[email protected]
I mean, Possibly? I replace my oil at most every 6000 miles, I usually try to aim for 3000 but sometimes you get busy. I don't personally own a car with that feature but Ive heard from others that it's mostly reminding you to replace your oil. I had a friend who I helped with one of those systems and their oil was black and I just looked at them like 😐
If the car has a turbo and direct injection and you go by oil color, you barely get off the driveway before having to change it. Oil goes black in under 100 miles. Doesn't mean it stops lubricating, these cars specify oils that technically can do 30k+ miles in some cases and then have you changing the oil at ~15k miles. I still keep around 6-10k myself (10-15k km really, but I be using miles for your benefit here).
Of course, I don't use cheap or low quality oils. I keep to Motul most of the time.
I have a 20+ year old car, not sure if that affects what you said or not, but I'll have to look into that. I've never heard that before.
Only if it's a diesel. Most older gasoline engines don't dirty the oil like this.
Some cars that have this literally tell you to get it serviced by the manufacturer :/ In my limited experience, that's mostly cars after built after 2010. Mine (Skoda Fabia 2) only shows a little wrench in the display which I can simply tell to go away.