Oil change monitor

[jljbtm]

Does anyone know how many "miles to go" when you get down to 5% oil life remaining, just wondering if I should change the oil before or after my trip of about 1900 miles?

 

[SD Rebel]

It isn't a straight count down, it depends on your driving habits, but if you have a 1900 trip coming up, I would get it done now. To stay active with your powertrain warranty, you need to do it within the computer, 10,000 miles or 1 year, whichever comes first.

 

[CHeYeNNe71]

I would definitely do before the road trip.

 

[kapinallinen2]

Does anyone know how many "miles to go" when you get down to 5% oil life remaining, just wondering if I should change the oil before or after my trip of about 1900 miles?

Change it before the trip.
I do an oil and filter when it says 50% life left, usually around 5k miles.

 

[jljbtm]

Okay I'll get it changed before I leave better safe than sorry

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[1791]

you let you monitor get down to 5%. if you care about the truck and want it to last best thing to do is change it every 5000 miles, forget that oil life display is there.

 

[LOWRMPG]

Does anyone know how many "miles to go" when you get down to 5% oil life remaining, just wondering if I should change the oil before or after my trip of about 1900 miles?

Don't worry about what % as much as you care about how many miles since the last change. If you tow a lot, change it around 5-7K. If you don't, change it around 7-10k. To answer your question, yes most likely an additional 1900 miles will bring that number to 0% - simple math you have probably around 17 more run hours on the motor and about 500 miles before 5% becomes 0%.

 

[dajogejr]

you let you monitor get down to 5%. if you care about the truck and want it to last best thing to do is change it every 5000 miles, forget that oil life display is there.

I wish I would’ve known that when I traded in my 2015 with over 140K on it, zero motor issues, and the whole time I only changed it with 10% or less oil life…with…gasp…conventional oil.

 

[CHeYeNNe71]

Yeah too many push 3-5K oil changes when oil labs have shown oil still good even after 10K. We don't have the old engines anymore. I believe the 240K+ youtube guy does 10K changes

 

[jljbtm]

Just FYI I do take care of my engines I have several cars I switched to synthetic motor oil specifically mobile one back when it started I think 2004. But I also had the oil tested in two of my cars several times and the testing facility kept telling me to push the oil change interval all the way to 10,000 miles and that's where I change it now is 10,000 miles. So synthetic oil does cost a little more but why do it three or four times in within 10,000 miles when you can do it just once. My only question here was about the gauge on the dash I just had no idea what 5% of oil life meant. Thanks for all the help.

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[HSKR R/T]

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Does anyone know how many "miles to go" when you get down to 5% oil life remaining, just wondering if I should change the oil before or after my trip of about 1900 miles?

that close, with that long of a trip, just get it changed. I personally wouldn't let iy go much last 10% oil life, if I was following oil life monitor. But I change mine at 7500 miles

 

[kapinallinen2]

My daily commute is too short to let the oil go to 7500 or 10k miles.

 

[LOWRMPG]

My daily commute is too short to let the oil go to 7500 or 10k miles.

Yup generally regardless of miles you should change it once a year.

Per the 2025 manual:

Under no circumstances should oil change intervals exceed 10,000 miles (16,000 km), 12 months or 350hours of engine run time, whichever comes first.

 

[1923bob]

Change it before your trip. I go every 5K sometime sooner but that's just me. I used to change oil in my street rod sooner than 5k but it would sit most of the time.

 

[1791]

I wish I would’ve known that when I traded in my 2015 with over 140K on it, zero motor issues, and the whole time I only changed it with 10% or less oil life…with…gasp…conventional oil.

i get it. my buddy has a 2012 ram with 250k on it and climbing, motor and trans have never been apart it don't burn or leak a drop. 5k on oil and 50k on trans services.
big debate. i was a mechanic at a dealership for a time i have changed out my fair share of motors. now i have done LTL for the past 10 years and delivered 100's of engines from kia dealers to jack's auto repair and have spoken to 100's of mechanics one thing they all say 5k is the sweet spot in todays world do not do 10k oil changes if you plan on keeping the vehicle. i have not paid for a oil change in 40 years i do it myself so i spend less on 2 oil changes per 10k mi changing it every 5k mi than most pay doing it one time per 10k mi. it cost me about 35 bucks to change vs the cost of a motor i consider it cheap insurance. check youtube university lol.
take a moment wile your on the toilet and give one of these a watch. but if you want to push your oil it that's your choice. on a new twin turbo ram their is no way in hell would i go over 5k unless i leased it. turbo's add wear and tear and put alot of demand on oil but i guess we will see how they hold up in a few years.

great video he explains why they push 10k

 

[mikeru82]

Just FYI I do take care of my engines I have several cars I switched to synthetic motor oil specifically mobile one back when it started I think 2004. But I also had the oil tested in two of my cars several times and the testing facility kept telling me to push the oil change interval all the way to 10,000 miles and that's where I change it now is 10,000 miles. So synthetic oil does cost a little more but why do it three or four times in within 10,000 miles when you can do it just once. My only question here was about the gauge on the dash I just had no idea what 5% of oil life meant. Thanks for all the help.

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If it was simple math, 5% of 10,000 miles would be 500 miles. From what I've seen, if you don't use your truck for towing or drive in extreme conditions the oil life monitor pretty closely tracks with mileage. Even if you wanted to stretch your OCI to the max on the oil change monitor, the best you'd have is another 500 miles before it reaches 0%.

Change it before your trip.