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Old 03-23-2024, 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by MX rider View Post
You're right about synthetic oil. When I was working I was in outside sales and drove over 50k a year. I had a new Toyota Tacoma at that time. I always ran Mobil 1 synthetic and went 12000 on an oil change. At 200k miles I sold it and it still ran like new and used no oil.

12K internals That was 3 oil changes in year on down road driving which puts around 80 to 90% or less wear on engine so, your Toyota actually had less than 100K wear on engine. Probably closer to 60K with oil change internals. Extreme conditions like start and go, stop and go driving, pulling heavy loads, or extreme dusty conditions like in desert states require different oil change internals. Not me saying this it’s the industry.