Krash Kadillak

Just changed oil for the first time since I bought my used '06 HHR (2.4)
I bought it at around 30.5k miles in mid November. DIC showed 100% oil life when I bought it. Dealer paperwork showed oil had been changed.

The oil life meter on the D.I.C. this morning showed the oil life at 18%. My odometer reading was 42,900 miles. That's 12,400 miles, folks. At that rate, the D.I.C. is telling me I can go over 17,000 miles between oil changes?

In the past, I've never gone longer that 7,500 between changes. Since I had the oil life meter, I thought I would assume it knew what it was doing.....
BTW, the oil was pretty dark......

My driving is about a 60/40 highway/city mix. Roads during the winter pretty messy, so my air filter was pretty bad.

To anyone - What's been your experience with the oil life readout?

whopper

Please use the search facility here - this has been discussed to death. Really it has.

SS fan

I've changed it twice since it was reset and I'm about to do it again and it says 42% so it likes the oil much better than I do.

Greybeard999

Guess who has to change oil.... AGAIN!

whopper

Exactly!!! Lol

Krash Kadillak

I did.
Looked under D.I.C.; Oil Changes; Oil Life, etc.
-- Just got a bunch of unrelated threads.

843de

Hey Krash, type "change life monitor" into the search function and read away, there are two pages of threads on this.

At that I'm going to back slowly away from this topic as it usually gets snarly.

Krash Kadillak

"Change Life Monitor"....for a search term?
I guess I don't speak 'computer'. I was sure there were threads on this. Thought there would have been at least one in the first couple pages of this section.....nope.

Greybeard999

One thing about the search function, it won't search for 3 letter words. So your initial searches likely got the words "life" and "changes"........ Could have been some weird threads coming up for that.

Zagohhr

Gold rule for oil change:

For non-Synthetic change every 3,000 miles or 3 months.
For Semi-Synthetic change every 4,500 miles or 6 months.
For Full-Synthetic change Every 6,00o miles or 1 year.

The last time when I changed my oil it has 37% of oil life, after 11 months and 6,500 miles... I don´t want to wait until 0%.