. Can you go farther. Sure. Not recommended but hell
. I know some farm trucks that still have the original oil in them from new(and they still use them on the farm 30 years later)
Sin or conventional, it does not matter. Your owners manual tells you change the oil regardless of race or religion or color or makeup.
. If you don't want to do ANY damage to the car, then do not start it. But you did and stuff starts wearing away.
. It is changed when YOU decide to change it.
. It still will last 10 years.
If you do oil and filter changes every 3,000 miles you can probably go another 500 to 1000 miles if you absolutely have to. Be sure to check the oil level before driving though as most motors use oil and you may be down a quart. Top up the oil level if you're going to let it go for a while. It's not a good habit to put off oil changes. You'll hear lifter noise at start up if you make a habit of it.
Mr. Loco, this is an incomplete statement. Oil changes last six months or 6,000 miles plus or minus 1,000. Many cars have an oil service "minder" message as to the percentage of life of the oil. I was driving today and I saw an ad at an auto repair shop. It offered an oil change for $19.95. Of course, with fees and taxes it can be $30.00. That happens to be the price of an average evening meal somewhere. You have a car but you cannot afford $60 a year for oil service? I wonder if you can afford this car at all. Can you? The other option is to buy a container for oil, two ramps, an oil filter removal tool, some rags and there is the oil change equipment. Next is oil and filter. Walmarts or any other stores sell motor oil these days and filters at any auto parts store. You can learn from someone experienced how to change the oil in your car. The old oil must be captured and turned in for recycling. You need to find out who accepts used oil in your area. Many people mistakenly follow the old, old, old, old rule of 3,000 miles or 3 months. And that is for mineral oil. Synthetic blend or synthetic oils last longer still. I use only synthetic blend and follow the six month or 6,000 miles rule. One other car has the oil change advisory. The third car is electric and uses zero gasoline and zero oils Not servicing the motor oil proper creates "sludge" which is globbed up motor oil that has lost its chemicals that make it a lubricant. That is bad news. You can search online for photos of engines ruined by sludge. Again, if you cannot afford a $30 motor oil service, then, I wonder if you can afford the vehicle.
Go to Advance Auto, buy a Fram Ultra Xtended Guard oil filter, take your car to a Jiffy Lube, or wherever is advertising the cheapest oil changes, tell them you have your own filter and get them to change your oil. 'Dino' oil is all basically the same so whether they're using Valvoline, Quaker State, Kendall, Castrol, Havoline etc.etc.etc. doesn't matter. The oil filters filtration capabilities is the most important thing. Personally, I use that filter with Pennzoil platinum full synthetic oil and go 8,000 miles between oil changes and wouldn't be afraid to go 10,000 between changes. But that's just me!
Yes. Your oil needs to be changed as soon as you have the funds. Make sure you have the right amount of oil. If you have not enough oil, your car will get f'd in the A.
The real issue here is not the age of the oil in your engine, it is the age or miles you have driven on your oil filter. A plugged oit filter equals no oil filter! If the crap in your oil along with your oil never makes it thru your oil filter, that is when wear to your engine occurs along with cold engine startups. Yes, there are additives in the oil (a reason to never use recycled/reclaimed oil in any engine), but after you spin a new filter on, the additives will get replenished when you add a half quart or quart to top the level back up to full.
I have met many highway miles only drivers that never change their oil, but simply wait to change the filter when the oil reaches the add a quart mark on the dipstick, then add one and a half to two quarts of fresh oil and continue driving for as long as the oil filter packaging states.
With synthetic oil and compatible filter, that can be 15K miles, all driven safely for your engine!
Just check the oil level and get it changed as soon as you can. Its fine to go 1000 miles over as long as you don't let it run low on oil.
depends on how you drive oil is not the oil from 30 or 40 years ago. I drive a 2008 gmc sierra and sometimes go 10k milles before changing it. I drive it hard too, i drove from Louisiana to Washington D.C. in June and I drove 80 mph or faster. I also have been a mechanic for 26 years
Lets see, you do know the Imports are or do have tighter clearances in the engine & most require oil changes sort of on time type of deal. If you have a turbo, it needs to be done when it is due or you will destroy your turbo.
It also depends on how far you gone. But its hard to say how long it will go, I guess make sure the oil level is fine at least
I change mine when it is discolored or i have some other reason.
if I use it hard, get it hot, it uses some, etc.
I make a decision like a VMM, vehicle maintenance monitor.
Since you just have a honda, you could get a pan of your choice, a wrench, a copper washer, and filter and oil at the NAPA, say you want an antidrainback filter, some oil you and they decide after discussion, and change it in 15 minutes.
Save your receipt. recheck your work, Bobs your uncle.
I have a 2008 Honda Civic Si. It is currently due for a scheduled oil change but I can't do it at this time. I was just wondering if I can keep using my car without doing the oil change for now. If so, for how long can I keep driving it before I absolutely have to do the oil change. I don't wanna cause any damage to my car, I want to maintain it in the best conditions that I can so do you recommend me to not use my car until I can do the oil change or can I keep using it for a while with out doing much damage? If so how long?
It is never a good idea to neglect changing the oil in your car. Even if you don't drive it much, failure to regularly change the oil causes engine sludge and ultimately undue wear and damage..
Don't fall of the 3k mile myth. Today's motor oils can easily hold their viscosity for 4 to 5k miles, or more, under normal driving conditions.
Wow, didn't know that how soon to change oil would be so controversial!! 22 answers??
Okay, everyone's all over the road (chuckle) with their answers.
Yes, you can keep driving car even up to 20,000 miles, but it will definitely hurt your engine. I think most people would agree that you can go 5K miles between oil changes, if you don't want to hurt the engine. YOu could even go 7K miles, even up to 10K if you wanted, but then you'd START to hurt the engine.
I said START to hurt engine, because it's a slow process.
An automobile engine is extremely refined machine, where the parts move within only a millimeter of each other. Get a ruler, and see how close one single millimieter is. About thickness of your fingernail. that's why oil is so important, because it keeps everything slippery, so that the parts don't get too hot while moving near each other. And one it gets too hot, then things get bad.
So you want to have the best condition oil to lubricate between these very tight surfaces. Your engine runs at 2K to 4K per minute!! Per MINUTE. RPM Revolutions Per Minute. that means that each piston is hitting at thousands of time a minute, to make the spark, to run the engine. thats about over 100 times a second!!
So you want the oil to be the best it can be, so the engine can keep moving that fast without hurting itself.
When oil gets dirty, it's actually miniature parts of the engine that get into the oil, teeny-tiny little specs of metal, won't hurt the engine doing that. And as the dirty oil flows, those teeny tiny parts scrape against those fast moving engine parts. Also, as oil gets dirty, it doesn't lubricate as well, so makes engine harder to move. But 'harder' is relative, it doesn't seem to us that it's any trouble. But if you have very dirty oil, and then get oil change, and then drive car, you'll notice that engine runs much smoother and has much quicker response. That's because the new oil lets engine move quicker and faster.
So if your main statement is that you dont' want to hurt the engine, then you'd best get oil changed within recommended times, which is about 5K miles. Anything past that will START to hurt the engine. I think you could go up to 7K without any worry, if you go the 7K miles each and every oil change.
But as I said, if your main statement is to keep the car in best shape, then you want to change the oil when it's recommended.
If you're just trying to keep from shelling out the bucks, then go up to 7K, and you wont' hurt engine.
If you went up to 15K miles (NOT recommended and NOT GOOD), between oil changes, you'd still be able to use engine. It'd still run for long time, but engine WOULD be damaged.
And engine doesn't just stop running because you drive it with bad oil in it. Just like our human bodies keep running with too much alcohol or too much smoking. But eventually the damage catches up with the human body, and you'll lose body parts, if not death. Same thing with mechanical car engine, sooner or later, the engine does wear down, and you'd need a new engine.
That's why some guy I met always gets his oil changed out at 3K, even with synthetic oils, which means you can go up to 5K, because he said, he'd rather spend a couple extra costs of oil changes per year (perhaps $50-70) rather than spend $3,000 on a new engine.
So engines aren't that fragile that you can't drive more than the suggested change time of 5K, but over time, it will damage the engine.
Hope all of our 2 dozen answers help you to understand the responsibility it is to keep a car running.
I own a bicycle. it doesn't really need oil, except maybe on the chain and it can get feisty if the chain doesn't have enough oil. maybe a car is the same? I don't know. I don't like cars.
You can keep driving it until the car dies. That's not the point.
Is it bad? Well, it's not good - the oil won't get any cleaner. Think of it like smoking - the sooner you quit, the better your chances of having a longer life.
You haven't said how many miles it's been since the last change, if the oil is very dirty, if it's synthetic or conventional. Without this, it's not possible to give you any advice.
It's "bad" to start it up every day, but you bought the car to use, so use it. It's better to keep the oil clean, so even though nothing lasts forever, yours doesn't end up in the junk yard sooner .
It is bad. It can ruin your cars engine. But my ex says, that I could by a new car already as much as I change the oil. And I also put synthetic all the time.
yes if you drive a car that needs an oil change you risk damaging the engine
How many miles since your last oil change? Has the oil life monitor switched on yet?
Pull the dip stick out and wipe it on your hand, does it still look basically clean, as most cars these days it is. If so drive it until it gets dirty. If it was Whiskey you would not throw it out you would drink it, as it is still good. I do not do my vehicles until it is slightly dirty. And change the filter at the same time. Depending on the distance, but I could go 2 years. Just go by the colour.
If you can afford a $20,000 car. You can most definitely afford to use a quality synthetic every 3,000 miles. Just an engine insurance policy, do that and I know that engine will last for 200,000 miles. BTW Honda K motors are super expensive!!! Be prepared to spend $5,000-6,000 for a new one.
I think you could go to 10k. But not do it regularly. I am bad myself. I am about 5k. Let's stop being bad. Let's get a oil change SOON!!
you should be able to get 5-7 m. miles out of the oil. just be sure the oil level is full in the meantime.
You could go seven thousand miles easily as long as your oil level is okay. The dealer or Jiffy Tube says 3000 miles check your book it will some times states 10,000 miles.....
How many miles does it have since the last oil change?
Bad oil = New engine
how dark and dirty is the oil and does it smell burnt if its not to bad u can drive it for a lil bit longer it all depends how much you drive it and how many miles has it been from the time you change it last so if i was you dont drive it to much and dont put to many more miles on it till you change it
You need engine oil to have the engine running.
Certainly too bad and risky.
It can be bad. Change it as soon as you can.
