First Oil Change, 1000 Miles or is this just Old Fashioned?

[Foogie]

I'm changing mine at around 1000 miles. It can only be a good thing to get fresh oil/filter in/on there and I enjoy doing it. Plus, my kids are at the age where I can teach them how to do it. I will run 0W-20 AMSOIL Signature Series on it and then I'll follow the oil life indicator. I don't put a lot of miles on my vehicles since I have several in rotation so likely for me it will be a once a year change at 5000 miles per year.

 

[RHO]

I'm old enough to remember when this was a pretty good idea, in fact I had a '22 GT last year, and I did change the oil at 1000 miles. My '23 is quickly approaching this milestone, is it worth doing, or just a waste of time and money now days?

I would change it , my dad was a mechanic he use to do his first at 1000 miles also.

 

[Willwork4truck]

Ahh the oil wars… whether its viscosity, brand, synthetic vs non or what mileage.
Never ends.
As soon as I think I may stretch my mileage I see tear down vids on YT about sludging.
During old times, break-in oils were normally changed by 500 miles. As tolerances and oils got better, manufacturer's quit stating it was needed.
Can it hurt? No
Is it really necessary? Probably not, though debris in blocks (like Toyota) do ruin engines.

• Toyota and Lexus will replace roughly 100,000 engines in Tundra trucks and LX SUVs built for the 2022 and 2023 model years.
• The replacement engines will resolve a May recall caused by machining debris left in the engine during the manufacturing process.

A commentor on the above article said “Any talk of Toyota coming up with a "fix" for this is idiotic. The "fix" entails disassembling the entire engine (because this metal debris has been pumped throughout the engine by the engine oiling system), cleaning everything, replacing all damaged parts including the oil pump, and reassembling the engine. In other words, the financial cost of doing this is WAY in excess of just putting another brand new engine in the vehicle.”
Reference is from thedrive.com dated 31 May 2024

 

[HSKR R/T]

Ahh the oil wars… whether its viscosity, brand, synthetic vs non or what mileage.
Never ends.
As soon as I think I may stretch my mileage I see tear down vids on YT about sludging.
During old times, break-in oils were normally changed by 500 miles. As tolerances and oils got better, manufacturer's quit stating it was needed.
Can it hurt? No
Is it really necessary? Probably not, though debris in blocks (like Toyota) do ruin engines.

• Toyota and Lexus will replace roughly 100,000 engines in Tundra trucks and LX SUVs built for the 2022 and 2023 model years.
• The replacement engines will resolve a May recall caused by machining debris left in the engine during the manufacturing process.

A commentor on the above article said “Any talk of Toyota coming up with a "fix" for this is idiotic. The "fix" entails disassembling the entire engine (because this metal debris has been pumped throughout the engine by the engine oiling system), cleaning everything, replacing all damaged parts including the oil pump, and reassembling the engine. In other words, the financial cost of doing this is WAY in excess of just putting another brand new engine in the vehicle.”
Reference is from thedrive.com dated 31 May 2024

Modern vehicles aren't shipped with a "break in" oil in the sense of what old timers think. It's just regular oil. Is a good idea to get it out sooner rhiugh

 

[firecadet613]

Frequent oil changes are cheap insurance. Do the first one early.

 

[SD Rebel]

Ahh the oil wars… whether its viscosity, brand, synthetic vs non or what mileage.
Never ends.
As soon as I think I may stretch my mileage I see tear down vids on YT about sludging.
During old times, break-in oils were normally changed by 500 miles. As tolerances and oils got better, manufacturer's quit stating it was needed.
Can it hurt? No
Is it really necessary? Probably not, though debris in blocks (like Toyota) do ruin engines.

• Toyota and Lexus will replace roughly 100,000 engines in Tundra trucks and LX SUVs built for the 2022 and 2023 model years.
• The replacement engines will resolve a May recall caused by machining debris left in the engine during the manufacturing process.

A commentor on the above article said “Any talk of Toyota coming up with a "fix" for this is idiotic. The "fix" entails disassembling the entire engine (because this metal debris has been pumped throughout the engine by the engine oiling system), cleaning everything, replacing all damaged parts including the oil pump, and reassembling the engine. In other words, the financial cost of doing this is WAY in excess of just putting another brand new engine in the vehicle.”
Reference is from thedrive.com dated 31 May 2024

The fix now is complete engine replacement, you got to hand it to Toyota, they aren't cheapening out on the fix, they are doing complete long blocks now, as you mentioned much easier and less complications for the end user than a short block replacement.

I remember the Corvette having that issue, when debris from the normal break-in would actually cause internal damage, the recommendation was to change the oil at 500 miles. I think it was a C7 higher-performance variant specifically?

 

[stevieb92]

I try to target 1000 miles for the first one. Oil changes are cheap. Engine replacements and down time are not.

 

[JF19Longhorn]

IIRC I changed mine at 1,500, 5k, and every 5k since.