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Old 07-06-2009, 10:16 AM
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How often do you change your engine oil and tranny fluid for your car? What's your recommendation? Thanks!
Old 07-06-2009, 11:13 AM
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Once a year for oil and tranny once a blue moon... 2 years?
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I used to do this following the regular maintenance when my car was out year round.

Now it's more like wing's schedule. Though if I get 2 or 3 track days in, I'll probably do an oil change before going for more.
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tranny once per year
oil - 4000kms
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Wouldn't it depend on what oil you use? Dumping a nice synthetic at 4-5000km would be a waste IMO.
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castrol syntec - i buy on sale for 32$
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at least once a season for both. Generally 5-6k for motor oil and tranny every 2ndish oil change.
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I follow the maintenance minder. I got about 8k KMS from each oil change using synthetic. I change the diff every year along with the trans.
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and the maintenance minder is based on mileage,rpm,time,etc?
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