01-05-2008, 06:35 PM
It's funny you should mention that, Chris. I'm one of the few people I know that's going to keep my 4 wheel vehicle until it just won't go any more. My Accord's been in my family for the latter half of it's 200,000 mile life and it's finally bit the dust (and really, it's my fault it's dead; if I hadn't fucked with it I'd be getting more life out of it). I'm not that way with my bikes, although I'd really like to keep my current stable for a while.
I think most of the club plays too much musical motors to really consider how long oil change intervals will effect motor life. The guys that have high mileage cars around here have usually bought them in the later portions of the vechile's life, and anybody that's got something newer probably isn't hanging on to it forever. It'd be hard for us to determine how much an effect these intervals would have on our toys for a couple reasons related to that. To really see the effect, we'd have to be doing them from very early on in the car's life and continue doing them well into the high mileage zones. Starting a 15K interval at 100K doesn't give us a very accurate picture, nor does only keeping a car for it's first 100K. That, and for those guys that track their cars, the intervals aren't changed. I don't tihnk you'd find anybody willing to run the same oil in the track car even for just half of the 15K.
But, I mean, have times changed? I know we're out of the repair and, and into the remove and replace era... but are people keeping their cars for less time? I haven't really noticed any difference; I'd guess that we're keeping our cars longer, though, since they're lasting longer. Could anybody even imagine putting 200K on a Fury or a GTO?
I think most of the club plays too much musical motors to really consider how long oil change intervals will effect motor life. The guys that have high mileage cars around here have usually bought them in the later portions of the vechile's life, and anybody that's got something newer probably isn't hanging on to it forever. It'd be hard for us to determine how much an effect these intervals would have on our toys for a couple reasons related to that. To really see the effect, we'd have to be doing them from very early on in the car's life and continue doing them well into the high mileage zones. Starting a 15K interval at 100K doesn't give us a very accurate picture, nor does only keeping a car for it's first 100K. That, and for those guys that track their cars, the intervals aren't changed. I don't tihnk you'd find anybody willing to run the same oil in the track car even for just half of the 15K.
But, I mean, have times changed? I know we're out of the repair and, and into the remove and replace era... but are people keeping their cars for less time? I haven't really noticed any difference; I'd guess that we're keeping our cars longer, though, since they're lasting longer. Could anybody even imagine putting 200K on a Fury or a GTO?
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2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
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2009 Speed Triple | 2006 DR-Z400SM | 1999 CBR600F4 | 1998 Jeep Cherokee
-Ginger