Black oil after 2000kms

[daves8]

I bought a higher km VF calais, and the service intervals were a bit longer.

I changed the oil and filter immediately when i bought it, and just changed again after 2000kms as i figured it needs more regular changes.

I intended to change at 5,000kms after this, but wondered as the oil as so black if i should do 2,000 km changes a few times, or do the intended 5,000?

 

[hademall]

I bought a higher km VF calais, and the service intervals were a bit longer.

I changed the oil and filter immediately when i bought it, and just changed again after 2000kms as i figured it needs more regular changes.

I intended to change at 5,000kms after this, but wondered as the oil as so black if i should do 2,000 km changes a few times, or do the intended 5,000?

Any service records? How many K’s?

 

[vc commodore]

I personally can't see a problem changing it again after 2,000K, if it is black still....Can only help clean the insides of the motor

 

[wetwork65]

Looks like it needs a proper clean out if a lot of solids are being dislodged from oil pathways. Can you stick your finger or better still a borescope into the oil filler to look for crap build up on internals?
Frequent changes of oil in your situation to my thinking is cheap "insurance".

 

[daves8]

Any service records? How many K’s?

Yes it had service records, but a few 20-30k intervals.
it has 277,000 kms.

because of the high kms and larger service intervals i dont want to use a engine cleaner pre oil change in case theres lots of **** inside and it clogs

 

[daves8]

Looks like it needs a proper clean out if a lot of solids are being dislodged from oil pathways. Can you stick your finger or better still a borescope into the oil filler to look for crap build up on internals?
Frequent changes of oil in your situation to my thinking is cheap "insurance".

No such tools…….

Another change in another 2000kms it is

 

[hademall]

No such tools…….

Another change in another 2000kms it is

The thing is, if it is gunked up inside I don’t think frequent oil changes will clean it. There was a thread some time ago about a similar situation, and the guy put a cleaning agent through his engine a couple of times. I can’t remember the result, but I don’t think it did any harm.

 

[daves8]

The thing is, if it is gunked up inside I don’t think frequent oil changes will clean it. There was a thread some time ago about a similar situation, and the guy put a cleaning agent through his engine a couple of times. I can’t remember the result, but I don’t think it did any harm.

Yes I read that. It was diesel from memory.

I don’t want to go to that extreme.

Car runs well, no signs giving me concern just wanted to take precautions within reason

 

[losh1971]

It would worth using diesel oil for a couple of oil changes it will clean it a fair bit quicker.

 

[J_D 2.0]

The thing is, if it is gunked up inside I don’t think frequent oil changes will clean it. There was a thread some time ago about a similar situation, and the guy put a cleaning agent through his engine a couple of times. I can’t remember the result, but I don’t think it did any harm.

Modern synthetic oils have decent detergents in them that will clean the engine and suspend the particles in the oil.

If it was me I would be inclined to just continue with shortened oil change intervals rather than aggressively cleaning it and potentially causing issues.

If the oil gently cleans the engine and suspends most of the fine particles in the oil then it’s better than having chunks of gunk floating around the engine.