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    Recommended Oil change intervals

    Maybe I may overlooked it in the manual some where.

    Can anyone tell me what the oil change intervals are?

    In my old car, the Maintenance required light would flash at 4500 miles upon start up, and once you reached the 5000 mile mark since the last oil change it would stay on.

    Does Mitsubishi recommend 3000 or 5000 miles?

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    It varies, and it's posted around here somewhere...

    Let me get back to you...

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    believe it or not, here in my country oil change is done every 12500 miles or 1 year for my space star. I don't know why there is such a big difference?

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    I believe they recommend 7500 miles for the Mirage

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    Schedule 1: Every 3,750 miles (6,000 km) or every 3 months.
    Schedule 2: Every 7,500 miles (12,000 km) or every 6 months.

    If you need to reset the service indicator yourself see here.

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    In the US its 7,500 miles but you are supposed to use full synthetic for that interval to be valid. Most modern cars have factory intervals of 5,000 with conventional oil.

    I am personally going to 15K with Mobil 1 EP, and will send a used oil sample for lab analysis at the end of my experiment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anog View Post
    Schedule 1: Every 3,750 miles (6,000 km) or every 3 months.
    Schedule 2: Every 7,500 miles (12,000 km) or every 6 months.

    If you need to reset the service indicator yourself see here.
    Thanks anog for finding and posting this info.

    Quote Originally Posted by ahausheer View Post
    I am personally going to 15K with Mobil 1 EP, and will send a used oil sample for lab analysis at the end of my experiment.
    I was thinking of doing the same thing. What lab are you going to use for the analysis? I hope you post your results and let us know how things turn out.
    Last edited by Eggman; 06-03-2016 at 08:42 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ahausheer View Post
    I am personally going to 15K with Mobil 1 EP, and will send a used oil sample for lab analysis...
    You guys might want to try 10-12,000 miles first and then send in a sample. I did a similar test in my G5 with 5W30 Mobile 1 EP. This car was always well-maintained and driven carefully. I sent in a sample at 9,425 miles and here was the comment in the Blackstone Labs report...

    Mobil 1 claims this is a 15,000-mile oil, and it probably could be in use that long, but as we mentioned in the previous report, it depends on several factors. Your engine was doing well after this 9,425 mile oil run, so with a TBN of 2.8, we wouldn't be surprised if you could run this oil out to at least 12,000 miles.

    It's hard to say if it'd make it to 15K miles without excess wear, but it's possible. Try 12K miles next and check back. If all is well at that time, 15K miles should be fine.

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    I'll be using Blackstone. It will be a few months untill I hit 15k but I'll post the results here when I do. So far after 9k the oil is within a few millimeters of the full mark so I don't think I'll need to add any makeup oil.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ahausheer View Post
    I'll be using Blackstone. It will be a few months untill I hit 15k but I'll post the results here when I do. So far after 9k the oil is within a few millimeters of the full mark so I don't think I'll need to add any makeup oil.
    Keep us posted. I am on EP but opted to go with 7.5k*1.5=11.25k as they advised EP to last 1.5 times longer.


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