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oil change at 6k interval - conventional oil

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by tampaite, Oct 29, 2015.

  1. tampaite

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    Can I safely change oil at 6K interval with conventional oil ? Manual says 5K but I read somewhere it was 7.5K earlier. I have a 2007 model.

    What do PC members say ?

    If 6K then, can I just ignore the maintenance light once that turns ON after 5K ? or is there a setting to default it to 6K so the light doesn't turn ON?
     
    #1 tampaite, Oct 29, 2015
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    Why not just do it at 5k? Yes it's safe
     
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    Agreed, it is safe. It was changed from 7500 because of lawyers and the sludge problem in some Toyotas in the early 2000's.

    If you're under warranty go with 5k.
     
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    I'm not sure the correlation between conventional vs synthetic oil and oil change interval is that clear. Does Toyota actually say anywhere that conventional oil alters the oil change interval? I appreciate manufacturers of synthetic oil tout it's ability to have longer change interval, but what does Toyota actually spell out?
     
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    because as an idiot - I didn't pay attention to my dash to see the maintenance light has been ON for over a week and I have driven almost 1k above and beyond the 5k oil change interval limit.

    I plan on getting oil change done later this evening.

    No warranty here - Prius has almost 150K miles on it.
     
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    If you are driving a over 1000 miles in a little over a week, then I'd definitely error on the side of changing it more often and sooner as opposed to less often and waiting longer.

    If I was putting that many miles on a vehicle that rapidly, I'd change to synthetic.
     
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    why not synthetic? then you need to do it every 10k. Price for materials x2 conventional will be about the same as x1 synthetic
     
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    no problem with 6k. no way to change the 5k default, but i think there is a maint. menu in the mfd that you can set for 6k reminder.
     
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    I doubt even 9k miles matters at 150k miles. I change my 2005 somewhere between 10k and 14k miles but I use Mobil 1 oil and filter. It also is now kinda self changing since it uses a quart every 3000 miles. It really changes itself every 12k. I just drop it, install a new filter, and refill.
     
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