I did the first at 5000....and the rest will be every 5000.....mine is my family car.

 

My 2 cents: No matter how miraculous the oil is, it should be changed at about the 1000-mile point in order to get rid of all of the break-in particulates. Thereafter you can stick with the recommended schedule.

I first changed my oil at 1700 miles (too freakin' busy to get it at 1000), put in Pennzoil Ultimate full-synthetic in, and then have been going by the oil life maintenance minder ever since (2nd change was signalled at about 7200 miles, which is less than 50% compared to my BMW maintenance minder, which tried to squeeze 15k to 19k miles out of its 5W-40 in between oil changes).

 

So i changed the oil this afternoon, checked for metal shavings or any foreign particles, but couldn't find anything. The oil was obviously a little on the dark side and needed to be changed . Very scheptical about those 10000km oil changes.
So i finally decided to go with Mobil1 5W20 synthetic oil and FL500s Motorcraft filter. 8 1/2 quarts went in the crankcase with new filter. Hope she's happy now.

 

8.5? I thought the capacity was 8 with filter...

 

I was right at the top of the dipstick check line with 8.5 quarts. Go figure !

 

Very good decision.

 

Yeah, it's not going to look like you sharpened a lawn mower blade & put the dust in your crankcase. You did the right thing, and so now enjoy the peace of mind.

 

Think i'm hearing " thank you" on the compression stroke.