useer 6282920

After 10 years and 4 Audis and picked up my 2010 LS460 AWD SWB yesterday. Of interest was the dealer telling me that Lexus switched over to Synthetic oil going forward and can go 10,000 miles between changes.

Has anyone else heard this?

Bill Dowd

yes they and MB Audi Corvett Porche and 10 other high end cars have done it standard operating way of doing business

Nospinzone

You could even go more than 10,000 miles, but of course you wouldn't want to void your warranty. My Infiniti Q45a has 176,000 miles. I've used only synthetic and change it every 10,000. I just had it changed at 175,000. The oil still looked good, but maybe some of the additives were depleted. Also, I've never had to add oil between changes.

Here's an interesting article, and keep in mind that motor oils are much improved since this study was done.

http://www.moneybluebook.com/article....oilchange.php

Craig B

If you plan on keeping it, I would do synthetic oil changes every 5000 miles or once a year if you don't use it much. It holds 9 quarts of OW20 synthetic.


Craig

joedaddy1

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7500~10k or 1 year for me. regular conventionals go over 5000 these days..

miniz

It's true. Time can get to the oil more then mileage if you drive low mileage, so you may only get to 5000 miles before the need for a change. If you drive average to high mileage, then you may get near 7500-10,000 out of each change. Make sure to use a high quality full synthetic, such as Mobil-1 with a high quality oil filter.

jstjohnz

So is Lexus officially endorsing 10K oil change interval if you use synthetic?

ls460love

The hassle for us pre-'10 owners is the warnings that cannot be altered. I guess it really isn't a deal breaker, but anything over 5k forces the maintenance reminder to alert. A quick reset is all that's necessary, but it's no longer synchronized.

hughh

That is correct...10,000 miles OR every 6 months!

Craig B

On my GX 460, the dealer said 10,000 miles, or once a year. I don't know where you got the 6 months from.

40cpe

Not to steal the thread, but along the same theme:

I just bought an '07 SWB with 7000 miles on it. It was a Lexus/Toyota Motor Sales corporate car. It was serviced once a year although the mileage wasn't near 5000. The owner manual says 5000mi/6 mo whichever comes first is "recommended". How does this recommendation relate to the warranty requirements?

jstjohnz

It's still sort of sync'ed, you just do the oil change every other time the warning pops up.

USCRugby

Thats one thing I miss about my MB. You only had to go once every 10k miles. Every 5K is a pain.

IS-SV

Wasn't aware of the 6 months?

Craig B

Me neither...