Can you use a extended life oil and oil filter on a newer car? kia optima LX 2017 trying to come up with a cheaper solution for oil changes and was wanting to know if i changed the oil filter every 12,000 miles if that would be alright to do or not? just change my first filter and the next 12,000 change the oil and the filter? "ive heard mechanics say that this would work just fine as long as i made sure to change my oil filter every 12,000 miles the first time and then the second time to change the oil and filter" i just need to know if this will work i was thinking about using the amsoil signature series oil for 25,000 mile oil changes.
If you think oil and filter changes are expensive, wait until you see what it will cost to replace your engine.
so what your saying is that you wouldn't use a extended life oil or oil filter on my vehicle at all? and just change the filter 2 times before you change the oil? just keep doing the regular oil changes cause my oil is 50$ for a gallon of it and my filters themselves are 15-17$
No, I change oil and filter at approx. 5000 mile intervals. I do my own oil changes and pay about $20-$25 for a gallon of synthetic oil and about $6 for a filter. My car has over 360,000 miles on it and runs great.
If you are really intent on doing this of course you will void the 10 year/100K mile warranty if that's still in effect. All I can suggest is that along the way you periodically send the oil out to a lab for analysis on one of the extended changes to see how it is actually doing.
on a Kia? Forget it.
Engine oil and filter should be changed every 5,000 miles or once a year, whichever comes first. If you want to maximize the chances of your engine lasting longer, I would not prolong the oil change intervals much past that.
right but what it is we put miles on our vehicle so quickly that it just would break us to try to keep putting money into oil changes and filters cause were using the recommended brand of oil and the oil filters to and the amsoil is such an expensive oil already we just was looking at a possibility to lessen the amount of times that wed have to change the oil a year from like 4 or more to like maybe 1 or 2 times a year. That's why we was looking at a extended life oil for a change of 25,000 miles and just a interval oil filter change every 12,000 until the new oil was needed in the 2nd filter change.
Go look at Project Farm on youtube. He tests cheap and expensive oil and came to the conclusion its basically all the same oil, in different containers. Stop paying $50/gal for oil that is really $15/gal
Chuck Tobias is right
