The best route is to take an oil sample and have it tested for $25. This will give you factual evidence of where your stands vs when it needs to be changed.

Some of these manufacturers are using oil change intervals that are way too long.

The worst thing you can do during winter storage is start your car, it adds moisture/water to the oil which can drastically lower the viscosity.

Depending on your environment and driving conditions, I believe 15,000km is way too long between changes.

I typically change the oil every 3500-4000km, but my car is pretty heavily modified.

 

This is why my friend that owned 2 Jiffy lubes was able to retire at 50.

 

It's actually a great app. Oil life, tire pressures, odo reading, km to empty, current location all shown. Can also remote start (instant or schedule), turn on/off lights, even toot the horn! Plus book a service appt and a bunch of personal account stuff.

Much better app than I had for my previous vehicle - where you had to connect your phone to the vehicles's wifi network each time (?!?) in order to do some pretty limited things.

 

Two little stores retired a guy at 50!

im googling that franchise right now to buy one.

 

Depends if it’s a lease or owned.

 

When I was young enough to know people who worked in jiffy lubes or equivalent, I remember the stories of stripped drain plugs and rubber stoppers

 

May apply to any car but oil tests on 993tt forum show 5K mile oil in near perfect condition. Changing every year on low use cars is probably unnecessarily wasteful.

 

yeah Ronnie I agree . That's why i was wondering about the oil quality monitor.. but i change mine every spring regardless so i'm as guilty as the next guy , and that usually takes me to the end of May or mid June before im changing it again.

 

Must confess Clive we change it several times a year on the Edge but it goes 20k+ kms. annually.

 

i change by mileage (~ 10K km) typically or 3 yrs whichever comes 1st.

 

What dealer!? Just dropped off my 2020 911 /992 this morn. $1800 for oil change and spark plugs.

$700 was for the oil change alone. Highway robbery.

May need to find a GTA mechanic that I can actually trust to do this stuff.

 

Porsche tAx my friend ...

Is it really that difficult to change the oil on a modern Porsche ..

My classic is like 15 minutes and you don't even need a jack.. the longest part is waiting for the old oil to drain out.

 

$300 seems cheap. The c40 mobile 1, $25/L

$250 just for the oil.. this is for a turbo… the filter is $50 too…

Edit. I do my own oil changes and it’s $300cdn just for the supplies as per above.

 

if your car is still under warranty or CPO then you are getting the 2 hour oil change. that means that you are charged 2 hours labour which last year for me was 352.00, parts was 274.40 all plus tax. they do a multi-point inspection and give you a report. the cost for the oil was 120, filter parts was 100, new fob battery, top up washer fluid, fuel system cleaning was 30, I don't know if you could just tell them to change the oil and filter and nothing else.

 

as long as you realize their job is not to change the oil , their job is to get as much money out of you as they possibly can