Oil Maintenance Required ????

I am right there with you at essentially the same mileage and message. I have the Toyota Care complimentary maintenance, so I have some free oil changes coming to me. I'm not sure if I want to do one at 5k or not. I think the 5k reminder interval is useful, even if it doesn't result in an oil change every time it activates.

 

Apparently they haven't figured out how to change the maintenance reminder to 10,000 miles so you will probably get several creative explanations.

 

I saw the same thing on my car @ 5K. (2010 G3-II)

My company changed the oil then, even though I told them that it's not required until 10K. Actually----they changed it twice, since they tried to put 20w50 into the car the first time and I had to pop a flare over some senior fleet manager's desk, and make several adverse comments about their maintenance policies. (loooong story... )

If I ever get a G3 for my personal use, my intentions are to change the oil @ 5K, and thence every 5-7K...and I don't care what the folks in Aichi have to say about it.

That's just how I roll.

 

At least they didn't put 2190 TEP in there.

 

When I got my 2010 13 months ago it had a 5k interval. No idea why. However, Toyota has officially changed that to 10k on these vehicles, but the maintenance reminder will still come every 5k. You just basically turn it off and ignore it every second time. I received in the mail I think it was an official, Toyota-blessed booklet telling me of oil intervals and it's definitely 10k on the 2010.

 

Yeah...

Funny thing....the 20W50 was in my car for about 150 miles.....and my mileage didn't drop, that is until the wrench swingers came and got the car to drive it to the maintenance barn.
My bosses car had the same wrong oil in it for a month and a half..

My protestations resulted in the same wrench benders back-hauling his car to put the correct oil in it. His mileage didn't drop much either.

That all said....I'm still a pretty firm believer in frequent oil changes. I don't have any fancy degrees but the oil goes in almost clear...and it comes out black. That tells me that whatever is turning the oil black (ash and other combustion by-products?) isn't something I want cruising around in my engine room.

0W20 isn't cheap...but it's cheap enough to change every 5K...and that gives me a chance to poke around under the car to see if anything else is amiss.

JMHO.

 

The dealers didn't want Toyota to change the 5,000 "oil service" interval. They make BIG bucks of the shorter interval. My dealer said they should rotate the tires and while you have it in the shop "why not change the oil?". You can remove the warning in about 45 seconds without any special tools. Do a search of Pirus Chat to find the steps needed.

 

I got the message a week ago, but I still have about 1200 miles left till I hit 20K, I'll most likely wait till then.

 

They'll probably change the interval to 10k in the future, I know it comes on every 5k in Lexus vehicles too.