How often should you change your synthetic oil in months

You bring your car to the auto repair shop and they slap a sticker on the windshield: change your oil again in 3,000 miles or three months.

You probably knew that the 3,000-mile interval was ridiculous, but what about that other deadline? What if you don’t drive much and let your oil sit for six months? A year?

I know a guy with a fleet of Ferraris—some of them seven-­figure cars—and he goes only by mileage.

“That oil was in the ground for 100 million years,” he says.

How often to change oil if don't drive much

“What’s six more months?” That’s a good question, and one that I recently answered through semi-intentional negligence.

Here’s what happened: In 2008, I bought a Troy-Bilt lawnmower with a Honda engine. After a few years, I realized I hadn’t changed the oil.

But, by then, electric mowers were getting cheap, and I really wanted an electric mower.

Does oil need to be changed every 6 months?

I figured I’d just let the Troy-Bilt go until it blew up—which it refused to do. I kept mowing my lawn, season after season, the little Honda purring away, until I eventually started feeling bad for the thing. I de

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