Post your oil change regimen!

[mrpj]

In spite of Toyota U.K. specifying 10000 miles or 12 months (whichever comes first), I change the engine oil and filter at six months after each annual dealer service. Yaris 1.4 Diesel.
Toyota Genuine Motor Oil 5W/30 (semi synthetic), genuine Toyota filter and new drain plug washer. Dealer uses the same oil.

[Hershey]

It costs about $20 for synthetic oil changes at home . Oil filter $4 ( AC Delco PF1233 or Toyota YZZF2 ) , 4 quarts Shell synthetic oil at $3.50 each ( w/tax ) , and paper towels . Can't beat that . Here are U.O.A.s from the sedan . Column 1 : Shell syn 5w-20 , 2nd : Shell syn 5w-30 , 3rd : Pennzoil Yellow Bottle ( P.Y.B. ) regular 5w-30 . All oil intervals in the reports had the Toyota 90915-YZZF2 oil filter .

[Hershey]

" It costs about $20 for synthetic oil changes at home . Oil filter $4 ( AC Delco PF1233 or Toyota YZZF2 ) , 4 quarts Shell synthetic oil at $3.50 each ( w/tax ) , and paper towels . Can't beat that . Here are U.O.A.s from the sedan . Column 1 : Shell syn 5w-20 , 2nd : Shell syn 5w-30 , 3rd : Pennzoil Yellow Bottle ( P.Y.B. ) regular 5w-30 . All oil intervals in the reports had the Toyota 90915-YZZF2 oil filter . "

Did a oil change earlier and will be posting a new U.O.A. of the SHELL synthetic 5w-20 (S.N.) with a AC Delco oil filter . The oil / filter had 4,649 miles of use . Had to get it done thanks to poor weather in the upcoming weeks . Have to change oil / filter on the driveway ( brrrrr , was 28 with a light wind and some sun ) . Replaced the AC Delco to the Toyota oil filter with another round of the SHELL syn 5w-20 . Will be about a few weeks before posting the U.O.A.. Hope all turns out well .

[enviri]

eh, i get free oil changes for life at my dealer. i do it every 5k miles.

[malibuguy]

^ they offered some form of that to me. I literally laughed in their face, after just telling them what i do. Nobody else is touching my car...especially the oil change kid

[daf62757]

Originally Posted by malibuguy

^ they offered some form of that to me. I literally laughed in their face, after just telling them what i do. Nobody else is touching my car...especially the oil change kid

Smart move!

The kids that work doing oil changes are not MIT grads!

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by daf62757

Smart move!

The kids that work doing oil changes are not MIT grads!

LOL (can't resist replying) -- I drove away after one oil/filter change and noticed (steam? light? Both? --- can't remember) and pulled over and checked under the hood. They didn't put the cap back on after putting the oil in the engine! I drove back to the place and pointed this out to the owner. They drove to the Toyota dealership, bought me a new cap, returned, changed the oil and filter again, and gave the car back to me with a cupon for a free oil change. I did avail myself of the free oil change (and double checked the results upon completion), but by the time for the next oil/filter change came around I went to another place I'd found (that was cheaper as well).

[RABYARIS]

Walmart 5W-30 oil every 5K miles.

[jambo101]

Mobil1 synthetic every 10,000 kms

[red 5 door]

Every 2000 with purolator filter,5w30 chevron

[brg88tx]

been doing synthetic 5w-30 evry 10,000 miles, but next oil change going to synthetic 0w20

[Killchain]

Every 5k, OEM oil filter, and what ever the dealer uses for 5-20w regular.

[nookandcrannycar]

Got an oil/filter change recently at 240,010 miles...about 14,000 since last change. I could have gone longer, but figured this close to a milestone would make it easy to remember without looking at my records. Later that day I got my free tire rotation at Firestone....about 15,000 miles on the tires....again an easy to remember milestone. Firestone does a free balancing with each rotation, which I did not know before. I just happened to see the tech roll one of the tires away from my car, mount it on the machine, and close the lid.

P.S. This = my 15th oil change since purchased new

^^^^^ P.S. Added on 5-22-13

P.P.S. ----- Just noticed today (2-28-14) that this was my 16th oil change, not 15th

[yougojay]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

Got an oil/filter change recently at 240,010 miles...about 14,000 since last change. I could have gone longer, but figured this close to a milestone would make it easy to remember without looking at my records. Later that day I got my free tire rotation at Firestone....about 15,000 miles on the tires....again an easy to remember milestone. Firestone does a free balancing with each rotation, which I did not know before. I just happened to see the tech roll one of the tires away from my car, mount it on the machine, and close the lid.

P.S. This = my 15th oil change since purchased new

This is just awesome... Really, really inspiring to hear you got your oil changed at 240,010, just awesome! I've had my 2013 for about 7 weeks and just turned over 1,000 miles...I'll be lucky to put on 7,500 miles on it in a year. With this kind of mileage (240,010) I'll never think twice about putting extra miles on my car - you should be proud!

OH, I just figured it out, you averaged an oil change every 16,000 miles - I can't wait to change the oil on this car, but it will be awhile. Every time I talk about how easy it will be to change the oil on 'Scruffy', I get the ball & chain saying, 'Don't forget you have 2 years of free oil changes' - Yeah whatever!

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by yougojay

This is just awesome... Really, really inspiring to hear you got your oil changed at 240,010, just awesome! I've had my 2013 for about 7 weeks and just turned over 1,000 miles...I'll be lucky to put on 7,500 miles on it in a year. With this kind of mileage (240,010) I'll never think twice about putting extra miles on my car - you should be proud!

OH, I just figured it out, you averaged an oil change every 16,000 miles - I can't wait to change the oil on this car, but it will be awhile. Every time I talk about how easy it will be to change the oil on 'Scruffy', I get the ball & chain saying, 'Don't forget you have 2 years of free oil changes' - Yeah whatever!

Thanks. My inspiration among Yaris owners who purchased new is Yarisworld member trini_per4mance. As of March 27th, 2013 he had 492,000 miles on his Yaris. Before doing his brakes for the first time at 400,000 miles, the only repairs he did were replacing the alternator at 323,000 miles and replacing the shocks and struts at a bit over 150,000 miles (and he probably didn't HAVE to replace the shocks and struts). You can do a user name search for trini_per4ormance and when the results display, go down to the 5th thread listed (Finally, 450,000 miles....etc) and click on page 1 and look at post #1. whenever trini completes a new repair, he updates that post with a text edit to include the new information. If I can get to 400,000 or close to it without any more repairs (just the alternator and wheel bearings so far)....just oil/filter changes and a battery and another set of tires I'll probably trade it in at that time (or donate it to charity)

Among Yarisworld members who are original owners, there are at least 4 between trini and me. When Contraband831 posted that he was at 246,000 I was at 244,400. Another original owner/member is at 265,000+ miles and two more are at 350,000+ miles. Tops among our non original owners (and he's enhanced his Yaris quite a bit) is Mazilla at over 530,000 miles. Mazilla bought a courier company that included 20 Yari....and each Yaris (among the 20) was at some point in the range between 350,000 and 500,000 miles!

[Amdkt7]

It is interesting that the semis are going 100+ thousand miles in some trucks. They send off oil samples every so often and do an oil change only when the numbers start to look bad. Often they can tell when something is going wrong with the engine before it breaks by picking up on what is in the oil. Also, they use gallons of oil, not quarts.

[Everglade]

Hey guys,
just purchased 2007 Yaris RS with 106k kms.
Two days ago did an oil change.
Prefer Mobil synthetic 5W30 (Extended Perfomance if possible).
With Mobil oil filter or K&N filter.

5qt jug of synthetic Mobil from Walmart in the states is roughly $26.
Mobil filter is $15 and K&N is $8.

Gonna do oil change every 4000 kms.

[junorico24]

Penrite full synthetic
Ryco oil filter.
Gear box: Red line MT90 with Nulon G70 Tranny treatment. This stuff/



I was having problems shifting when COLD. Shift better now, could be better.