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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Jiffy Lube’s New Oil Change Frequency Schedule

One of the great myths of car maintenance — that vehicles need oil changes every 3,000 miles — has taken a significant hit now that Jiffy Lube has changed its policy and will no longer recommend oil changes to customers on that schedule.

USA Today reports franchisees will use a computerized system that takes factors including severity of driving into account to provide a tailored service schedule for each customer.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

About 15 years ago a company in california developed a system to monitor oil in your vehicle.
This system would measure a number of critical points in oil such as viscosity and acid etc.
I bought some stock in the company and the stock tripled in a year. However ,it went down to nothing overnight.
The only thing I could think of is that an oil company purchased the patent.

Anonymous said...

7:04
An oil company purchased the patent?
Or it could be that the company invented a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
For the money to install this expensive equipment to check the viscosity and acid of the oil you could just change the oil instead.

Anonymous said...

8:49

Actually you are incorrect. Numerous vehicles on the market today have that system already on them. Vehicles track "enigine oil life" and display it in a percentile number. My Chevy has it and my Lincoln that I traded in also has it.