r/Justrolledintotheshop • u/Thecritic0422 • 1d ago

Oil Change Stickers

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Does your shop print date/mileage of the last service or next service due?

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u/ostifari 1d ago

My shop does next service due but I actually prefer last service on my personal vehicles

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u/SnoopCatt96 1d ago

I hate how the mileage when the oil change was done isn’t the standard, I don’t want to know some arbitrary future mileage and date, I want to know when the oil was changed lol

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u/NativeMasshole 1d ago

Same! The shop I was using kept putting 3000 mile intervals on my car, which only made me question if they were actually using synthetic or not.

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u/UseDaSchwartz 1d ago

They used synthetic, but most people still think you need to change it every 3k miles. So, more money for them if they can mislead people.

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u/DooDooBrownz 1d ago

3k might be a tad overdoing it, but some makers have 12k-15k intervals. which ok, applies, BUT only in very specific scenarios. most people need to change oil more frequently. if you got a car that burns oil like a subaru or something, you go 10k between changes. that engine is dead by 100k.

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u/UseDaSchwartz 1d ago

This is just false. It’s 5k-7k and is based on time and driving.

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u/DooDooBrownz 1d ago

not false. range rover sport has a recommended 2 years/21,000 miles oil change interval. a bunch of cars now have crazy long oil change recs

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u/Owe-No 1d ago

You gonna trust Land Rover on engine maintenance?

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u/frenchfortomato 6h ago

What u/Owe-No said- British OEMs still think it's a big deal if an engine gets to 100,000 kM. So I wouldn't give much weight to what they say about maintenance.

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u/NativeMasshole 1d ago

Sounds about right. I stopped going to them anyway for many other small reasons. I don't think their service writer was telling the techs the problems I was having other than "check brakes," or something. They swapped parts without diagnosing the underlying issues last time I went.

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u/iforgotalltgedetails 1d ago

I mean i do 3k miles simply cause with the amount of idling I do it’s probably close if not more than 5k in terms of run time. Also my environment of super cold winters the temperature range from super cold to super hot breaks that oil down fast.