First oil change?

[Raptor1996]

That’s actually bad for your engine to do the initial oil change that quickly. Especially if you switch it to full synthetic.
Not to mention, just a waste of time and oil…

Ok boomer. Putting royal purple in after 250 miles for 750 miles destroyed my engine I'm sure

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[Hyperbolic_1]

Pros and cons of sticking with Motorcraft semi-synthetic vs. full synthetic?

 

[Slyder]

The Ford technician said mileage is an indicator, but the actual engine hours can suggest doing the changes at less than the recommended mileage. Current recommendations from Ford are (for synthetic) 10K miles or 450 engine hours. My choice for intervals is every 5K miles, but each owner can decide.
This might be especially true if you auto-start a lot and do a lot of idling

That plays into what I said after the quote.

There are many things that come into play and pretty much every owner will have a different way of going about when they change their oil.

Today's(synthetic) oils are much better than in the past and today's engines are better with tighter tolerances, so the old notion of changing your oil at 3000 miles is outdated.

I know most Manufacturers, Service Advisers and such say you can go 5k+ before changing your oil, but I choose to do it my way and I've had zero issues with any of the engines (N.A & Boosted).

My choice has been to do the real world break-in with the Factory oil for 1500 to 2500 miles (3300 in the Raptors case). If I do a lot of driving during a year, I'll drain off a sample at 3000-ish miles for a test analysis and go from there. I usually end up going another 1k to 1.5k then change oil and filter.
If I don't do a lot of driving, then I'll change the oil at or near the 1 year mark.

I've had zero issues and none of my vehicles have had an oil usage issue and my oil catch-cans have very little to empty out of them. It's a bit early for the Raptor, but unless the cam phasers crap out on me for some reason, I'm pretty sure it will be like the others.

In the end, everyone is free to do how they please whether we agree with it or not. There really is no golden rule to follow. I still won't follow the oil life monitor, but I do check where it's at when the time nears for an oil change.

 

[pablo94sc]

I'm still on the factory oil at over 8k miles. I'm not worried about it, and plan to switch to fill synthetic at 10k with 10k intervals unless something looks off.

 

[RB205]

I'm going to be changing at:
1,000
3,000
6,000
10,000
15,000

And then every 5K after that.

 

[Critical Habitat]

Ok boomer. Putting royal purple in after 250 miles for 750 miles destroyed my engine I'm sure

I believe Royal purple has an engine break-in oil, which is basically conventional (non-synthetic). The ford technician suggested using the conventional motorcraft during break-in, at least.
I kept the conventional for break-in and later changed (around 3,300 miles) to full-synthetic motorcraft. I did not send in the oil for analysis (to see if there are contaminants/metals) but have heard of owners that have done this at their first oil change.

 

[FloppyKnockers]

I religiously change mine every 5 years whether it needs it or not.

 

[Chassis N2531]

First oil change was at 18xx miles done by me. Oil was dirty but not total blackout. Went MC 5w-30 Full Syn. Plan to change at
6k
10k
14k
18k

 

[Johnny 5]

First oil change at 250

Next oil change was at 500

Following oil change was at 1000

All oil changes for my remaining ownership of the vehicle will be at 3000 mile intervals. Bit this isn't my daily driver.

I did the same but now I'm going 5000 between oil changes....

 

[Skitrem47]

I am by no means trying to start a fight on here, but I just wanted to convey what my Ford service technician told me when I brought my ranger raptor in for its first oil change at 2500 miles. I purchased mobile one full synthetic and brought that with me and said that I wanted the mobile one full synthetic to be used for the oil change. I dropped the car off with the oil and a couple hours later I received a phone call from my local dealership saying that they will not put full synthetic into the truck. I let them know that many people have been running full synthetic in this engine, whether it’s the bronco or the explorer , and that many people are switching to full synthetic at their first oil change. He told me that he would not do the oil change with a full synthetic because in his experience it pulls through to the turbos. He said that Ford could not stand behind the oil change, if it was done with a full synthetic. He also said that they would not run full synthetic in even the F150 raptor, and that the only raptor they would consider putting a full synthetic in was the raptor R, because of the supercharger. He said if I want to do the oil change myself I can do whatever I want but Ford was not going to do the oil change unless it was a synthetic blend. I was pretty shocked to hear all of this, but appreciated his honesty so I stuck with the Motorcraft synthetic blend and returned the mobile one. Again, I’m sure people are having great results with the full synthetic, but this is what I was told at my dealership by someone who works on these engines all the time.

 

[greaserman]

My motorcycle calls for a semi synthetic blend as well.

 

[Dry0atmeal]

I just did my first just shy of 1K... will be doing 3 to 4k full synthetic

 

[rxv_poor]

Pros and cons of sticking with Motorcraft semi-synthetic vs. full synthetic?

I am using Ford's semi-synthetic for my 1st 3 oil changes 1200/4700-5000/8000-10000 I take mine out in the desert fairly regularly so dirt/dust/sand is an issue for me. After the 8000-10000 oil change I plan on replacing the plastic oil pan with an aluminum pan and running Amsoil full synthetic.

Just my old school way of doing things. I'm not claiming right or wrong. This process has worked well for me with turbo and n/a engines. It doesn't hurt anything as far as I can tell and I have peace of mind.

 

[Raptor1996]

lets get one thing abundently clear here. Changing your oil "early" (hint, there is not such a thing) is never bad for any mechanical system.

There is never a point in any mechanical system where running recycled lubricant through said system is a benefit. Sealed oil systems exist purely due to cost. If oil was a limitless resources in an engineering metric (like air for cooling) than engineers would have total loss oiling systems (like many, many early oil systems for internal combustion engines).

You can all die on your own hill with this. No one has ever once damaged their engines by changing their oil "early". That is the most nonsensical argument on this forum to date and this forum is full of malarkey. Ford fills engines at the plant with EXACTLY the same oil the technicians do at dealerships as well, which is motorcraft semisynthetic. There is absolutly nothing special about it. Break in oil is not used in anything other than wide tolerence engine rebuilds on antique engines now or ultra high tolerence race engines with odd (see "non-hydraulic" or "zero lash") lifter cams.

 

[Hootbro]

The manual recommendations is a minimum. Do whatever makes you happy as no matter what you do, somebody is going to find fault in it.

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