No more 3,000mi oil changes says California.

[GhostTX]

My Ford manual says every 5,000 for the Motorcraft synthetic blend in it.

[32vfromhell]

I think I'm on like 15k right now, only because I'm lazy.

you lazy motherfucker!

[32vfromhell]

Well, think of it this way, if the average owner gets an oil change every 3,000 miles, and they want to change it to 7,500... that will essentially cut every lube shop's business in half. Not to mention the cascade effect and drop in oil consumption. This is why California's business growth has been negative and dropping exponentially for 5 years in a row. And guess what? We (the responsible states) are bailing them out.

I could care less about the welfare of a lube shop.

Considering the son of the owner of several quik-kar lube places drives around in a SRT-10 viper, i dont think they are a hurting trade.

[Juiced4v]

Dont they make oil that is good for like 7k miles?

[CJ]

I could care less about the welfare of a lube shop.

Considering the son of the owner of several quik-kar lube places drives around in a SRT-10 viper, i dont think they are a hurting trade.

It's all jobs.

[bcoop]

I could care less about the welfare of a lube shop.

Considering the son of the owner of several quik-kar lube places drives around in a SRT-10 viper, i dont think they are a hurting trade.

You're missing the entire point. You cut a business' revenue in half, you're cutting tax revenue from that segment in half. Its not just about the welfare of the business. They keep creating laws that affect revenue for thousands of businesses, they are decreasing their tax revenue, and the taxpayers in responsible states (aka you and I) are footing the bill or their budget shortfalls due to their own stupidity. I can't believe the elected officials in Kommiefornia are so shortsighted. But if the morons there keep electing them, then they need to be left to their own income. Not to mention the thousands being adde to the unemployment pool to cut overhead.


It gets much worse and the Feds will legislate profit sharing like the NFL has, or in other words a robin hood type legislation.

[Somewhere in Time]

I wish CA would just fall into the ocean already. I'm so tired of their tree huggin, pussy whipped ways.

[A_A_G]

Dont they make oil that is good for like 7k miles?

Regular dino oil can go 7k miles in the right conditions. AMSoil makes oil that will work up to 25k miles.

[Hmbre97]

You're missing the entire point. You cut a business' revenue in half, you're cutting tax revenue from that segment in half. Its not just about the welfare of the business. They keep creating laws that affect revenue for thousands of businesses, they are decreasing their tax revenue, and the taxpayers in responsible states (aka you and I) are footing the bill or their budget shortfalls due to their own stupidity. I can't believe the elected officials in Kommiefornia are so shortsighted. But if the morons there keep electing them, then they need to be left to their own income. Not to mention the thousands being adde to the unemployment pool to cut overhead.


It gets much worse and the Feds will legislate profit sharing like the NFL has, or in other words a robin hood type legislation.

Fucking LOL! You sound like an Exxon-Mobil lobbyist or shareholder.

First off, they're not passing a law making it illegal to change your oil whenever you want. They're just trying to educate people to stop wasting oil by killing off old habits. Technology has improved to the point where oil changes aren't needed as often. Are lube shops going to take a hit? Yep. Is it a part of life? Yep. With your train of thought, we would still have laborers out there driving every rail spike in by hand and would still have operators operating switchboards down at the telephone branch exchange. God forbid we put all those phone operators out of jobs

[D3R3K]

We've been doing 10k oil changes @ Volkswagen for years. Free maintenance too.

[bcoop]

Fucking LOL! You sound like an Exxon-Mobil lobbyist or shareholder.

First off, they're not passing a law making it illegal to change your oil whenever you want. They're just trying to educate people to stop wasting oil by killing off old habits. Technology has improved to the point where oil changes aren't needed as often. Are lube shops going to take a hit? Yep. Is it a part of life? Yep. With your train of thought, we would still have laborers out there driving every rail spike in by hand and would still have operators operating switchboards down at the telephone branch exchange. God forbid we put all those phone operators out of jobs

Jesus Christ you're dense

[crapstang]

"Poop is brown"- Mr. Wang

[ram57ta]

My 98 GMC Sierra (Vortec 350) has 210k miles on it currently, and the oil thats in it now has around 8k miles on it. It doesn't smoke, doesn't leak, doesn't make funny sounds...and I've done the oil changes typically at about 6-7k miles since I bought it in 2002. I'm planning to change the oil and filter tomorrow. If I'm to understand a lot of the misinformation the oil change shops and car dealerships like to tell people...my old ancient 98 SFI350 should have frozen up over 100k miles ago or should have exploded into a million pieces right? The only concern most of these so called experts have is PROFIT. Ya'll do what you want.

[Hmbre97]

Jesus Christ you're dense

Pot, meet kettle.

[majorownage]

8k here

Beaten daily

Pennzoil platinum I have insider info that its the best off the shelf oil avalible.