Oil Change Interval with Long Commute

[Mountaincat2016]

Howdy,

This is my first post on this forum but I’ve been active on various car and truck forums for a very long time, I’m looking forward to participating in the community here! I’m a current owner of a 2024 W250 with the Hemi, with about 20k miles on it so far. In the past, I normally changed my oil every 5k miles and have never had any issues with any vehicle I’ve owned. However, my job has recently started to require driving about 200 miles per day, mostly highway and mostly unloaded. I’d rather not change my oil once a month, so I was wondering what the forums have to say about oil change intervals in this situation. Maybe just whenever the computer says so? Fortunately, I’m getting almost 20mpg highway most of the time so it’s not too terrible on fuel compared to the capability that I have on tap with the 3/4 ton. Looking forward to what y’all have to say. Thanks!

 

[56ram2500]

Howdy,

This is my first post on this forum but I’ve been active on various car and truck forums for a very long time, I’m looking forward to participating in the community here! I’m a current owner of a 2024 W250 with the Hemi, with about 20k miles on it so far. In the past, I normally changed my oil every 5k miles and have never had any issues with any vehicle I’ve owned. However, my job has recently started to require driving about 200 miles per day, mostly highway and mostly unloaded. I’d rather not change my oil once a month, so I was wondering what the forums have to say about oil change intervals in this situation. Maybe just whenever the computer says so? Fortunately, I’m getting almost 20mpg highway most of the time so it’s not too terrible on fuel compared to the capability that I have on tap with the 3/4 ton. Looking forward to what y’all have to say. Thanks!

First thing I would do is run an oil test from Genos ( see the following URL) to find out how well the oil your using hold up in your engine, it will also give you an idea if you need to use higher quality oil & filters for a longer OCI : https://www.genosgarage.com/product/fleetguard-oil-analysis-kit-cc2543/oil-filters

 

[Mountaincat2016]

Appreciate the suggestion! Unfortunately it looks like that company only offers kits for the diesel engine after perusing their website. I have the Hemi. Will look around for Hemi kits though (is Blackstone still around?).

 

[56ram2500]

Appreciate the suggestion! Unfortunately it looks like that company only offers kits for the diesel engine after perusing their website. I have the Hemi. Will look around for Hemi kits though (is Blackstone still around?).

I use the same UOA kit for my wife's 2025 Toyota 2.4L gas engine.

EDIT #2 do not use Blackstone there are over priced for what you get and they use out dated equipment to run oil test so stick with a Fleetguard or even the Amsoil UOA kit as Amsoil sends there oil samples to the same lab that Cummins/Fleetguard uses

Edit #1: If you want I can email you my info sheet that you can use to give to the oil Lab with our vehicle info so that you don't have to rely putting info on the small sheet pf paper they give you to supply them with vehicle info

 

[AH64ID]

Howdy,

This is my first post on this forum but I’ve been active on various car and truck forums for a very long time, I’m looking forward to participating in the community here! I’m a current owner of a 2024 W250 with the Hemi, with about 20k miles on it so far. In the past, I normally changed my oil every 5k miles and have never had any issues with any vehicle I’ve owned. However, my job has recently started to require driving about 200 miles per day, mostly highway and mostly unloaded. I’d rather not change my oil once a month, so I was wondering what the forums have to say about oil change intervals in this situation. Maybe just whenever the computer says so? Fortunately, I’m getting almost 20mpg highway most of the time so it’s not too terrible on fuel compared to the capability that I have on tap with the 3/4 ton. Looking forward to what y’all have to say. Thanks!

Follow the oil change reminder that the truck has, it’s really that simple.

It accounts for driving style and duty cycle.


UOA kits aren’t diesel or gas specific.

Blackstone is a joke, use another company if you want to do UOA. OAI Testing has a much better reputation.


There hasn’t been a W250 for over 30 years… long time Dodge guy?

 

[Mountaincat2016]

Follow the oil change reminder that the truck has, it’s really that simple.

It accounts for driving style and duty cycle.


UOA kits aren’t diesel or gas specific.

Blackstone is a joke, use another company if you want to do UOA. OAI Testing has a much better reputation.


There hasn’t been a W250 for over 30 years… long time Dodge guy?

Will definitely keep that in mind if I decide to go that route and I’ll use the Oil Life meter for now, it has me at about 85% after 1,500 or so miles. Which, for mostly highway miles but at slower speeds (not on the interstate), that doesn’t seem too far off. Right now I have free oil changes more or less as a part of financing the truck through Chrysler.

Not necessarily a long time Dodge guy but I’m glad someone picked up on it, haha. I’ve driven a little bit of everything and this is my first personal Ram. I’ve always liked Mopars, though, and I have fond memories of older Grand Cherokees and Chrysler sedans in the family doing very well. I didn’t know if Ram deep in their corporate paperwork still used D and W designation, like GM sometimes does with C and K.