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Low km Camry Oil Change??


mulla

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Hi All,

Originally purchased my Camry brand new in early 2005 (Gen 5.5) and have had dealer service every 7,500km since then. I've always supplied my own oil using Castrol Edge 5w-30, always ran on 98 and occassionally 95 octane fuel (not that it matters here?!).

Now since getting a new job 2 years back I'm lucky enough to be able to walk to work each day thus the Camry only get a work out every weekend when I go do the shopping / going out etc. It was Feb 2008 when I had my last service and now the odo is sitting on 35,xxx and my next interval is at 37,500 if I go by the 7,500km interval.

I was wondering if it's safe to wait until I hit that km interval before I go and have my service done? Or should I stick with the 12month service interval for a low km car?

Doesn't make much sense to me that oil could breakdown just sitting in a sealed engine when it's not running? I did some googling and there's some patchy information that seemed to agree that "time interval" can be ignored and stick to the "km interval".

Just to be safe I thought I'd ask ppl's opinions here which had been extremely helpful!!

Thanks in advance for any tips.

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I have a 2001 V6 Camry and a 2005 Corolla both of which are relatively low mileage cars, more so the Camry and I change the oil and filters in both every 6 months(Castrol GTX3), regardless...It's not that expensive really, around $30 a car...

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