Are you in the +200k mile club? Poll question:

Hello my high mileage 4Runner friends.

There have been several threads lately involving the question of oil change intervals. Some of us are diligent about changing our oil at 5,000 miles, while others are content with a 10,000 mile interval. There seems to be little consensus on the issue. The purpose of frequent oil changes is to increase longevity, so I thought ask the question of high mileage owners:

For those of you who have driven your 4Runner 200,000 miles or more, how often do you change your oil?

Feel free to leave a comment regardless of your 4Runner’s mileage, but please only participate in the poll if you own or have owned a 4Runner with more than 200,000 miles on the clock. Lets see if there really is a correlation between high mileage and frequent oil changes.

 

Almost to 200k on the Corolla runs like brand new! 10,000 mile oil changes.

 

The dealer put too much oil in it twice. Then this oil smell comes out of the vents. So I don’t go to the dealer any more.
And they bent three rims doing a simple tire rotation. Then tried to charge me $4k.

 

My '03 was changed every 10K, Mobile 1. 257K and ran perfect when I traded it in.

I off-road, haul, tow, and have oversized tires and a roof rack on my '19, so I do 5K changes as recommended by the manual.

I think that if you're putting on mostly highway miles, with minimal hauling and towing, 10K is plenty, as the manual recommends.

I thought the consensus was to go with the interval recommended by the manual.

 

I did 3,500 on my 4R for over 20 years until just recently read the manual and it says do it every 4,500 miles.

 

My X-Mas present to me in '97. 3k mile oil changes. Quaker State 10w-40 dino oil (). Fram filter () its' whole life. '96 Silverado, 5.7 Vortec, 272,367 miles. Burns no oil.

I'm a believer in sooner than later oil changes. Using a synthetic, I change the 4Rs' oil @ 5,000. I have no doubt it'll make 300,000.

 

For 18 years (240K miles) my 3rd Gen 2000MY oil change goal was under the old wisdom of every 3,000 miles. After I would hit that number I’d find a convenient time to change it so it worked out to be between 3K to 6K miles. Every 2-4 months.

No failures, no breakdowns. No rust (CA weather). I lost track of the second owner but after 21 years it was still going strong.

 

320K miles on a 2014 SR5. Oil change interval is 10K and I do them myself. Use 0w20 Synthetic and OEM Toyota filters.

 

125k on my 2015..oem filters, 0-20 Castrol every 10k..

 

212k here, full synthetic every 4-5k

 

Thanks for the replies so far! Let’s keep it going!

 

I think I made it. But where is the k supposed to be?

 

My wife's 2010 is about to hit 350k. Oil changes are every 5k with Mobil1 High Mileage and a Mobil1 filter. I do think it burns a little oil (maybe less than a 1/2 qt every 5k) but that's pretty damn good considering the mileage.

 

07 with 210k miles. I change the oil every 5-6k. Hopefully she’ll go another 200k