Wow oil still look new at 13000 mile.

You have not changed your oil in 13k miles?

 

so you reset your reminder at around 7k miles?

BION
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Maybe you should send of a vial of that oil to blackstone (or whatever it is called) for an oil analysis?

It would quite interesting to know the results on a visually looking clean engine oil at 13k would be. (Looks clean and still good or looks clean and viscosity broke down)

Do you drive mostly highway? City? 80/20 split?

If yours is a PIP, do you mainly drive EV mode?

I had my car for just under 1k and my oils looks new. Mainly city and EV driving so far.


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these engines are amazing, my oil looks as clear as water after one year interval, and 39,000 on the odo. of course, only 13,000 hv miles, and i've changed it 3 times.

 

I am very impressed with Toyota's ingenuity. I just noticed the other day while going down a slight hill with my windows down that the speakers on the front make a louder noise due to regenerative braking and no engine noise. Then when I am on a flat surface, it goes back to that softer spaceship whine. Too funny. The motor for my car has the electric water pump and no belt. It also has the electric AC, which in itself is quite remarkable. I feel like the Prius line is like when tankless water heaters started becoming the norm. When they first came out, people could see how such a small thing could give them hot water. Now, its a no-brainer if one can afford them.

 

what do they do with used motor oil?

 

if that's the case, the engine warranty is gone.

 

I'd like to poll PC members:

What (if anything) is wrong w/this conversation? What (roughly) is the OP's current odometer reading?

 

yep, & people like my brother (bmw) or my father (mercedes) they really go the whole 20k miles until the first oil change (until the car tells them now it's time)/
now I had my first oil change at 1500 miles....
(now at 38k miles I had nine oil changes....)
I just see it as a cheap insurance; why milk it to the last drop if oil changes are cheap & engines are expensive/

 

You can always change it a bit more frequently and recycle responsibly.

 

If the previous oil change was done 13,000 miles ago and the OP noticed the current reminder came on 1,500 miles ago, then he clearly let the previous maintenance interval lapse by 1,500 miles also before resetting it (6,500 + 6,500 = 13,000). One thing I've noticed in the Gen 3 is that it is quite easy to overlook the maintenance reminder. It pops up after the "Prius" welcome screen and then goes away. If you're not expecting it, you're likely to miss it altogether. In the Gen 2, it was an amber warning light that stayed illuminated, which is probably better. So far in my Gen 3, I have been expecting it by monitoring total miles at each shutdown screen and have never let it go beyond "Maintenance Required Soon". When it is overdue, does it stay on?

 

One thing about the US in-dash reminder: it doesn't consider time. Maybe not a factor if distance always governs, but the (US) spec for oil change is 10,000 miles or 1 year, whichever comes first.

By comparison, the Canadian spec is 8,000 kilometres (~5,000 miles) or 6 months. We're slow to put on the km's, so months is governing. So, the first weekend in April, and October, it's oil change time for me.