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posted by  jadnhm on  Wed Nov 17 12:51 CST 2010
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I have read that many people don't give synthetic oil a long enough go when they first start. The oil consumption will go way up for ~5k miles but then settle back down again.

You're spending way more money on oil than you need to. There have been some studies (by Ford and Sunoco I think) that showed that changing your oil before 6000 miles is a real waste. Based on their studies the oil rapidly degrades over the first ~5000k miles but then barely changes at all until sometime well after 6000k miles. There were some folks who saw similar results from their own extensive test which they posted online:
http://neptune.spacebears.com/cars/stories/oil-life.html

results:
http://neptune.spacebears.com/cars/stories/mobil1.html

Their test was with Mobil 1 but I'm pretty sure the Ford test was with conventional. A quick search didn't turn up and links to the Ford test. Either way most people are changing their oil much too early and wasting money and precious environmental resources, and polluting needlessly.
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