K-cars

[bgadow]

I looked at a car today that just had me shaking my head. 2017 model (I won't name names but, while not cream of the crop, it should be good for over 200k like everything else these days.) 35k on the clock & the engine is toast. How? Last oil change was at 16k. No warranty for you, my friend!

[MadMan]

Originally Posted by bgadow

35k on the clock & the engine is toast. How? Last oil change was at 16k. No warranty for you, my friend!

No kidding. Newer cars are increasingly sensitive to bad oil. Firstly, most new cars run very thin 0W20 oil, which naturally gets even thinner after it's been used a bit, and it has to be that thin for efficiency (to meet EPA shit) and also to run oil based things like cylinder deactivation and variable valve timing. But sadly, 0W20 is kind of pushing the envelope of how thin you can have your engine oil.

All I can say is, if you buy a newer car, change that oil religiously.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by bgadow

I looked at a car today that just had me shaking my head. 2017 model (I won't name names but, while not cream of the crop, it should be good for over 200k like everything else these days.) 35k on the clock & the engine is toast. How? Last oil change was at 16k. No warranty for you, my friend!

One of my neighbors at the workshop had a 2009 Kia Rio. For an el-cheapo it ran well and he always changed to oil with Amsoil and used their filter. At 60K miles he had the timing belt changed to maintain the 100K warrantee.
At a little over 120K the timing belt snapped and trashed the engine. It was kind of one of those round-to-its.
Had a salvage yard engine installed and that one spun a bearing a month later. The car got junked! The replacement engine probably wasn't maintained very well.