They told me to go by the Chevy app and it says I have 2500 more miles to go before oil change. That’s scary so you suggest I get an oil change now even though I am at like 25% oil on the app my pass cars. I’ve always done my oil change early and everyone’s always told me. I’m coming too early that I that’s scary so you suggest I get an oil change now even though I am at like 25% oil on the app my pass cars. I’ve always done my oil change early and everyone’s always told me. I’m coming too early that I need to wait till my car tells me I need an oil change so confusing thank you for all your advice. I’ll make my appointment.
The primary reasons we had ours changed for the first time at 2600 miles were:
1.) Always like to get any initial break-in debris out of the system. and...
2.) The stealership said we got one free oil change, but it had to be done in the first 12 months. We initially picked up our Trax on January 2nd, 2024 and we store for the winter, (End of October to the end of April) so we had the oil changed in the middle of October, washed & waxed it, filled the tank with non-ethanol premium + Sta-Bil™, put it in the car-port, hooked up the battery maintainer, installed the car-cover and put 'er away for 6 months. I made sure to start it about once a month while it was in storage and let it run for 10-15 minutes each time.
We'll follow the same procedure for the 2nd oil change next month, but it'll be at around 5600 miles.
Our situation is a little different than most people's, (we have 6 vehicles between the two of us) but I like to try to get the oil changed on all the vehicles every 3,000 miles. On our two classic vehicles and on our 4X4 SUV, we change the oil every other year since we only usually put a few hundred miles per year on them.
