Please help my dinosaur brain with this....
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Please help my dinosaur brain with this....
Our late summer road trip is fast approaching and will be about 3,500 miles total. I will have under 2,000 miles on my latest oil change (done Feb this year) if I change the oil before we leave. My brain is definitely telling me to do that but what a waste it seems. The oil is really clean as it should be with the 15,000 miles on the car. Would taking the trip on this oil really be detrimental to anything? Should I actually put 5,500 miles on this oil before changing it when we return home? One of the reasons I am even thinking about this is the fact that we took our R/T on that long 6,000 miles trip last year and I never gave it a thought to change the oil along the way. I changed it when we got home. This Coyote is better than the Hemi IMO but like I said, my dino mind says change it. Thoughts????
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Today, 07:16 AM
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You have 15,000 miles on a 2014 Mustang? Wow.
My personally, there's no way I'm dumping oil at 2,000 miles. Especially if it's a good synthetic which is all I'll use. Especially especially on a Gen 1 Coyote engine which doesn't have direct injection and doesn't contaminate oil quickly.
Back when I was sending my oil samples off for analysis I learned/confirmed two things for myself: At 7,500 miles the oil still has plenty of protection left in it, and 5W30 has less wear on the engine than 5W20. So, I always buy a 5W30 full synthetic off the shelf and change it at 1 year or 7,500 miles, whichever comes first. I'm at 105,500 miles now and no engine issues.
My personally, there's no way I'm dumping oil at 2,000 miles. Especially if it's a good synthetic which is all I'll use. Especially especially on a Gen 1 Coyote engine which doesn't have direct injection and doesn't contaminate oil quickly.
Back when I was sending my oil samples off for analysis I learned/confirmed two things for myself: At 7,500 miles the oil still has plenty of protection left in it, and 5W30 has less wear on the engine than 5W20. So, I always buy a 5W30 full synthetic off the shelf and change it at 1 year or 7,500 miles, whichever comes first. I'm at 105,500 miles now and no engine issues.
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assuming you are using good synthetic oil, and assuming you changed the filter at last oil change, I would not worry about it -- 5500 miles not a big deal in my opinion
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Absolutely agree I'd change it after the trip! 
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I'M Sure You Check The Dipstick Regularly and If Per Chance You Don't Like What You See There are FORD Dealers Everywhere. My Late Inlaws Would Travel Back & Forth To Iowa From Central California Pulling a Fifth Wheel into Their Early 80's. When The Odometer Showed it Was Time To Change The Oil He Simply Went to the Closest Dodge Dealer in His Ram V-10 Pick Up! I Know Cause I Got Stacks of Receipts For That Very Thing! Truck is Mechanically Sound at 130K on the clock. Its a 95! Has Enough Torque To Pull a Tree Stump & Gas Tank Big Enough to Bankrupt You These Days!
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