Prius 2010 Oil Change Interval Revised? Not yet... (closed)

[equake]

Does this standard extend to the CARB areas or heavy stop-n-go situations?

[DeadPhish]

Originally Posted by Sphyrna

You can imagine how I felt when the svc mgr informed me, I actually said to him "No, no, I have a 2010, it's 5K miles." And then he showed me the document I posted above. (sorry about the quality, I did all that from my phone cause I was excited to share the news)

It blew me away. I definitely never expected this. If Dianne or any other dealer is out there who can corroborate this info, we'd all appreciate it!

It's news to me as of today so tomorrow I'm going to get with the GM and the Service Mgr to bring this to their attention if they haven't aready heard about it.

It's HUGE for us...no BIGGER than that. Everybody who buys a new car from us since August 2005 is entitled to FREE oil and filters For Life. DING !!!! TYVM Toyota.

[bluemonday]

Originally Posted by DeadPhish

It's news to me as of today so tomorrow I'm going to get with the GM and the Service Mgr to bring this to their attention if they haven't aready heard about it.

It's HUGE for us...no BIGGER than that. Everybody who buys a new car from us since August 2005 is entitled to FREE oil and filters For Life. DING !!!! TYVM Toyota.

You may be the only dealership happy to hear this news.

Needless to say, I wait with baited breath.

[jdel]

I imagine that the tire rotation interval will still remain every 5k / 6 months. I don't think syn oil will make the tires wear slower.

[bluemonday]

Originally Posted by jdel

I imagine that the tire rotation interval will still remain every 5k / 6 months. I don't think syn oil will make the tires wear slower.

A good point. Depends on if they made the rotation schedule the same as the oil because it was necessary that often or because it was convenient.

[jay_man2]

The online maintenance schedules on the Toyota Owner's web page have yet to be updated.

[Sneezy]

Originally Posted by equake

Does this standard extend to the CARB areas or heavy stop-n-go situations?

This is one reason I prefer an oil life monitor as in my HHR. My dad goes about 10K miles on an oil chang in his, I go about 7 in mine. I drive mine like I stole it! My 2000 Trans am goes about 4-5K, which is about once a year.

But it is good news, anything to reduce oil consumption and owner cost is a welcomed improvement. I'll have to let my wife know. She hated the every 3K on her honda mini van.

[HTMLSpinnr]

**Sticky**

This is awesome but I'd love to see some official Toyota documentation beyond a printed power-point slide to understand how this will apply to the existing fleet, and how the maintenance reminder will be updated to compensate.

[anne1965]

Never understood the short oil change interval in the US. In Europe has always been 15 k km.

[tumbleweed]

Originally Posted by equake

Does this standard extend to the CARB areas or heavy stop-n-go situations?

I understand the stop-and-go part of your question although it may not apply to the Prius because it is pretty much stop and go anyway as far as the ICE is concerned. But what would having your car registered in a CARB state have to do with oil change intervals? We use the same engine, have the same oil, and pretty much the same driving condition ranges as non-CARB states as far as I know?