Oil life monitor

[Cherokee]

I am hearing many use it.

My full synthetic oil load now has 1,600 miles on it.
My oil life monitor says I’m @ 89%
And it says I have 10,900 miles left before I need to change it.

I do 5K intervals because of my Turbo.
I was always told it depends on on how you drive and the conditions you drive in.

I’m in the power often, mountain life.
But not in traffic.
I often drive fast and enjoy the hell out of my Italian tune ups.

Per the oil monitor I must be driving it like grandma drives to church.
I must be baby’ing it. Wondering what the city folks oil monitor is telling them.

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[Jerry's XLT]

Funny you should ask!

I just had my oil changed on my 25 turbo. I had 1980 miles on the oil and 12 months on the clock.

The monitor showed 12% life left.

I'm not sure how Ford does the calculation but it appears to take miles, time and engine loading into the equation. As my mileage indicates, I do local, non-highway, stop and go driving. Since I live in a golf course gated community, I do a lot of in community driving on my golf cart. Dining out and shopping can be done within a 4-5 mile area. I have to work at getting the oil temp up to avoid gas dilution.

There you have it for my "citified" monitor.

 

[Hot Runr Guy]

I pay no attention to the oil life monitor. Like you, I change the oil at 5K intervals, on the 5's and 10's. Easy to remember that way,,,,,

HRG

 

[MavStangVa]

Short, low speed driving actually shortens oil life per the monitor. I don;t stress out about getting it done exactly at 5k miles. I do like @Hot Runr Guy because it is easy to remeber, plus the OLM is hidden in a menu on the Maverick. But I checked it when I went to the dealer, yes gasp ridicule etc, for the last change and at 5200 miles since last change the OLM said it was at 34% left. Mostly local short trips but that 5200 was a couple of 700 mile round trip excursions.

 

[grandpopa'sMPGs]

I change the oil in my hybrid every 7500 miles. the dealer does it for free.
https://www.fullerisford.com/lifetime-free-oil-change-cincinnati-oh.htm

 

[Cherokee]

Yeah guys I agree,
7500 miles interval on the hybrid,
And 5000 mile interval on the turbo,

Both engines should be on full synthetic at the proper weight.

With those intervals and full synthetic oil
In my not so humble opinion there is no need for those larger oil filters.
Just a precieved benefit.

I guess the advantage large filter vs the stock size could be oil pressure.

So my question. As a filter normally clogs up what would that do to oil pressure if anything?

 

[sanpablo]

I change the oil in my hybrid every 7500 miles. the dealer does it for free.
https://www.fullerisford.com/lifetime-free-oil-change-cincinnati-oh.htm

Nice perk!

 

[Surly Old Bill]

OIL THREAD!

Yeah, although I show less regard for the "need" to change oil early and often, there is a sweet spot between factory recommendations, oil monitor, and hand-wringing nervousness by old people who used to use natural oil in pre- CAD/CAM cars (they change it every 1000-3000 miles or so, for some reason...).

That 5000 and 7500 interval sounds reasonable precautious. Even if not needed to protect the engine and prolong life before first major repair, it's not as irrationally weird and monetarily wasteful as changing it every two fill-ups. It brings peace of mind, not worrying if the oil is too dirty and spent.

As for the ecoboost, I think heat is their problem, not old oil, but old oil can contribute to higher operating temps. I think adding some sort of extra radiator and increasing the amount of coolant would be beneficial to ecoboost that gets driven hard. And/or a tranny fluid radiator, perhaps even an external oil cooler; if these things are available for a Maverick yet. BUT; these might F with the computer and send it's mind spinning because it's expecting other readings.

 

[HeyBales]

I've noticed thru 3 stretches of OLM % values - they don't seem to hone in on real % until you go below a certain point. Even when dates used to be displayed for potential service, off over a year out.
Hybrid for mine and that's 50% it seems.
I'm sure your 89% isn't really a good estimate yet.

Above 50%, neither the miles nor date was going to work out correctly when mathed out.

Though it does take into account what those current miles are since last OLM reset.
After my last change, immediately had 90 on the highway within 3 days, little city.
The Fordapp displayed a 5600 mile next oil change.
Then had long highway trip in mid-Feb amidst normal city driving, was given to 6100 miles. Now app updated and not giving estimated distance anymore, yet.
But mathed out, that has greatly changed as I added more normal city miles.

But above 50%, their mathed out doesn't match their own estimate, by time or miles.
It's good to see post above about city miles for EB still being realistic, with time being the limiter in their case.

I note every gas fillup.
The Est Distance give by the app in this column, is miles remaining, so add to trip miles.

 

[Chops]

Funny you should ask!

I just had my oil changed on my 25 turbo. I had 1980 miles on the oil and 12 months on the clock.

The monitor showed 12% life left.

I'm not sure how Ford does the calculation but it appears to take miles, time and engine loading into the equation. As my mileage indicates, I do local, non-highway, stop and go driving. Since I live in a golf course gated community, I do a lot of in community driving on my golf cart. Dining out and shopping can be done within a 4-5 mile area. I have to work at getting the oil temp up to avoid gas dilution.

There you have it for my "citified" monitor.

Like you, a 5000 mile oil change interval would kill my turbo. Us low mileage folks need to pay attention to the “freshness” of our full synthetic.

Every 8-12 months once I get the wear metals flushed out. That equates to about every 1600 miles or so.

 

[Old Young Man]

My 24 eco has 7300 and 3100 since last change. All local stop and go, synthetic oil. Oil monitor says 7% life. I plan on once a year changes. Figure the way it’s used it’s cheap enough just to do it and won’t hurt a thing. And it is hard on it with just the short running it does. Never burn out condensation.

 

[Surly Old Bill]

Like you, a 5000 mile oil change interval would kill my turbo. Us low mileage folks need to pay attention to the “freshness” of our full synthetic.

Every 8-12 months once I get the wear metals flushed out. That equates to about every 1600 miles or so.

And here I am, logging about 25k a year...

 

[Tim d]

I am hearing many use it.

My full synthetic oil load now has 1,600 miles on it.
My oil life monitor says I’m @ 89%
And it says I have 10,900 miles left before I need to change it.

I do 5K intervals because of my Turbo.
I was always told it depends on on how you drive and the conditions you drive in.

I’m in the power often, mountain life.
But not in traffic.
I often drive fast and enjoy the hell out of my Italian tune ups.

Per the oil monitor I must be driving it like grandma drives to church.
I must be baby’ing it. Wondering what the city folks oil monitor is telling them.

I was told by many mechanics to not go by the monitor, go by miles driven. The monitors are highly inaccurate. I had an 09 Honda crv.i used conventional oil and at 5000 miles the monitor said i has 74% oil life left.

 

[Dave O]

I pay no attention to the oil change monitor I change the oil between 5K and 7.5K averaging 6,457 miles after 2 full synthetic oil changes

 

[tiktokbrainrot]

The OLM just uses a simple algorithm of drive time, average speed, temperature, ece to estimate the condition of your oil. The only way to know if it is accurate for how you drive is to get a proper oil analysis done when you do an oil change and compare it to the monitor.

I cant say I've ever listened to them. The one in my GLI is actually disabled because it kept annoying me. I just change at 5,000/6 months, whichever is first, because oil is cheap, and engines are expensive, especially these days when a crate motor installed is something insane like $8-10k.

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