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Originally Posted by Welton
I appear to be the only person thinking this but here goes:
Regular high mileage should allow you to increase the time between oil changes, the oil is hot for longer and not under stress so will last longer.
Thinking back to 1990's BMW's and the company I worked at had 4 or 5 BM's with the famous 'countdown' service indicator lights. The car's computer would monitor the number of starts/mileage/oil temperature and vary the oil change time to suit. Some of the high miles guys would get over 30,000 miles whereas the 'town' drivers would be 12,000 ish....
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Mercedes has a similar system, the problems arise when the vehicle is saying change the oil and the lease company is saying no its not done the milage between services yet. 6000 miles overdue before they relented and changed the oil on its first service..
Over the next 9 years I'm sure they regretted that attitude given the number of bits that had to be renewed including the turbo. Still it was and is their van, now written off because it needed an oxygen sensor which exceeded the spend limit.
The next owner will inherate headaches.
Paul.