Oil change, 6 months or annually?

[Shaunpaul]

Hi all, do most people change their van oil annually or at 6 months? Purchased a new Iveco and first service is 3 years or 30k. Surely the oil need’s changing before this, but would this void any warranty if I do it myself sooner.

this pinged on the dash yesterday.

[tim361]

I have mine done every year in my hilux. Can’t remember what Toyota recommend but I only do 6-7k miles a year in it. Personally I don’t think it would do the engine and good to leave it 3 years and definitely not 30,000 miles. Oil and a new filter is cheap, a new engine £££££

[swinny]

My two motors do approx 5-7k a year each and I service them once a year. Sod all this long service interval crap. 

 

Oil and filter is cheap enough

Edited Thursday at 21:01 by swinny
Mileage for each vehicle

[Barney]

Could it be 30k or 1 year, whichever comes first?

[Mark_Skyland]

Definitely check with the warranty details if doing it yourself. 

[spuddog0507]

if thats the mileage from new and it was my van it would of been changed at least 4 times by now, said this for a long time now and mentioned it a few times on here over the years, oil n filters are cheap compared to metal mechanical moving parts, perfect example is a lad i shoot with who treated his self to a Izzue pickup 19 plate i think, 400 mile past its 15000 mile service time and it snaps a con rod then 8 grand later its back on the rd, as Swinny said sod the long service times, 

[Shaunpaul]

7 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:

if thats the mileage from new and it was my van it would of been changed at least 4 times by now, said this for a long time now and mentioned it a few times on here over the years, oil n filters are cheap compared to metal mechanical moving parts, perfect example is a lad i shoot with who treated his self to a Izzue pickup 19 plate i think, 400 mile past its 15000 mile service time and it snaps a con rod then 8 grand later its back on the rd, as Swinny said sod the long service times, 

Mileage so far is 1535, it’s oil life that’s 26103. I’ll speak to dealership today see what I can sort out for the future.

[Dan Maynard]

Broadly speaking, engines let less crap past the piston into the oil, and oils have more anti-wear and stabiliser additives, than the old days of change on 6 months or 6000 (or 3000 in extreme conditions ie stop start, short journeys etc).

 

I would also think the manufacturers of vans compete to increase service intervals so that fleet operators can calculate lower maintenance costs. On something like a delivery van where the oil stays hot all day, you probably can run it longer between changes because the engine conditions are ideal.

 

For average use I agree annual is fine but wouldn't leave it longer whatever the mileage says. 

[Muddy42]

Annual always for me, but my vehicles are older.  I might be wrong, but I'm not sure the computers can tell when there has been an oil and filter change.  So if you don't reset anything and get a garage to do the recommended less frequent services, how can your warranty can be affected?

[NJA]

Oil is better these days, same with engines, and with thinner higher spec oil gets round the engine quicker when warming up than years back.  But can only be a good thing to change more regularly. 

 

I know a chap who looks after a fleet of vans, services every 6 months and reckons he always gets 300k out of a van.

 

 As a few have said, oil and filters are cheap.  I also just changed a fuel filter in a 12yr old VW that still had original filter despite going to VW dealers for over half its life.  Air filter was about £12 so did this as well.

If you use decent branded oil and filters it shouldn't affect the warrenty.