Synthetic oil change time vs mileage

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.

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

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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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