Well, he said his manual reccommended 3k for his "extreme" driving situation. Go buy a case or two of oil when its on sale. Ends up costing like 50cents a quart. At that price, why not do it often? certainly wont hurt the car. and $2.50 in oil, $3.00 for a filter (on sale) and it wont hurt your pocketbook either. Again, you wont hurt your engine by changing oil a lot. MY grandpa was a grease monkey for hist whole life, so he religiously changes oil every 3k whether he needs it or not, and alway picks up the oil sales. We got at least 20cases of oil in the back at all times. Different brands, different types. With all that for cheap, makes no sense not to change your oil. But go by your manual. Make it at least that often, never less often.
Off topic, how did you make a caravan do that? We had a '90 Grand Caravan we just got rid of at 200k miles. Engine was still going strong, but that car had to be the biggest Peice of Crap i've ever seen. By the time got rid of it we had been in the shop at least 10 times to get major tranny repairs. We were on our 6th physically new transmission. Come to think of it, they didn't put that tranny in till 89 or 90, but the rest of the car kept falling apart.
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