The Volvo and Polestar guidelines for Service intervals are every 10,000 miles. Engines and motor oils have changed and do not require 3k changes anymore unless oil is being burned. All US cars at least, are under Maintenance plans, so will only be serviced during these intervals. If Volvo finds out that these cars are burning oil quicker, than we will need to petition to get the service intervals updated.
You say that like Volvo doesn't know their cars have Turbos. My Subaru got changed every 3,750 b/c that's what Subaru recommended on their Turbo cars. Volvo has both standard and extended warranties to worry about.
Hahaha the car will tell you when it needs the oil changed....
Does anyone know how maintenance works anymore? If you wait for it to become a problem, the damage is done. Maintain your investment and you'll never have a single issue. 10k is too long. 3-5k max for a turbocharged car unless you want pcv issues down the road.
Wait till the Volvo recommendation service interval for everything for the whole car's life and see what happens..
And it's not really burning money. Maybe if you get it done at the dealer it is, but it costs $40 to do an oil change with synthetic. Good assurance on a 60k car I think
10k service
I supplied Mobil 1 oil
With service included Volvo is not required to use mobil1
they can use a bulk synthetic blend
Thx for tech's tip = 2 flushes both with Mobil 1
Okay, so it seems pretty universal that the actual people who own the P*'s are going to follow the recommended scheduled maintenance for our cars. Like intelligent car owners we will be sure to check the level of oil and all fluids, but over time this should prove to be largely unnecessary since these systems are all electronically monitored. Now back to our regularly scheduled program.
I am not implying that I am more knowledgeable than the engineers behind the car. What I am saying is that even with low miles, these engines will sludge uo and have pcv issues. How do I know? Because I replace PCV systems constantly and have to dig out the drain ports into the oil pans. All because of these extended oil change intervals. Oil and filters haven't changed, why has the interval? Either way...it puts more money in my pocket so I guess more power to ya!
I am not going to pay anything, 100000 miles free service including all parts that need to be replaced plus 5 years full warranty.
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