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199x All. Penn state study on oil change intervals

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199x All. Penn state study on oil change intervals

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Always a hot Internet topic, but there was a pretty good piece of work on this from Penn State in 2009

For those looking for a simple decision tree on severe vs normal service, they document that under 5 mile trips AND under 25C is the crossover where water is not removed from engine oil on a regular basis.

Doubling the short trip to 10 miles (private communication) seems to remove fuel and water even in winter conditions.

I've found the best benefit to eliminating the 5 mile trips is it gets me on my bike

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Bumping this forward for the winter season ( sorry Mike)

I’ll find a link to the actual study too

https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/files/fi ... ssions/392
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