Recommended mileage for first oil change?

[GroovyGeek]

For those that say "Ford knows best" consider that they are on the hook only for failures up to 36kmi or 36 months. After that you are on the hook. If you sell your vehicles every 5 years following the factory schedule is fine. 5-10 years is probably fine. For anything more than that $40 worth of Mobil 1 synthetic and a filter, and 30 mins of your time is well worth it.

View @CarbonSteel's thread to see what the drivetrain fluids looked like after 3kmi. I recently did mine at 6k and there was probably 1/8 to 1/4 inch of shavings on the drain plug magnets and the fluid was dark brown. Not one but two Ford dealers told me they will not do the change before 60k.

I did my first one at 6kmi, will do the second one at 12k in a few weeks and after that I may or may not revert to 10k. Made in USA is not necessarily a good thing when it comes to vehicles. This is my first Ford and I am surprised at the sloppiness of the cable wrapping. Never seen so much manually applied electrician's tape in my life. Even on my Jeep.

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[jjack50]

For those that say "Ford knows best" consider that they are on the hook only for failures up to 36kmi or 36 months. After that you are on the hook. If you sell your vehicles every 5 years following the factory schedule is fine. 5-10 years is probably fine. For anything more than that $40 worth of Mobil 1 synthetic and a filter, and 30 mins of your time is well worth it.

View @CarbonSteel's thread to see what the drivetrain fluids looked like after 3kmi. I recently did mine at 6k and there was probably 1/8 to 1/4 inch of shavings on the drain plug magnets and the fluid was dark brown. Not one but two Ford dealers told me they will not do the change before 60k.

I did my first one at 6kmi, will do the second one at 12k in a few weeks and after that I may or may not revert to 10k. Made in USA is not necessarily a good thing when it comes to vehicles. This is my first Ford and I am surprised at the sloppiness of the cable wrapping. Never seen so much manually applied electrician's tape in my life. Even on my Jeep.

Powertrain warranty is 5yrs/60,000 miles.

 

[HotLap]

1200mi. 1st change then every 5-6k mi. Forced induction engines (turbos) work hard with (likely) more combustion gasses getting into oil via blow-by than N/A engines. Plus the turbos being oil cooled, could be overkill, but ”cheap insurance” in my book.

 

[Joe_fromCzechia]

There is a lot of debate about that so you’ll get a lot of different answers.

Personally I like to change it after the engine break-in period, which for the EcoBoost engines is 1000 miles. That’s kind of the old-school recommendation for the first oil change, and admittedly it is probably overkill for modern engines, modern oil, and modern machining techniques. But there isn’t really such a thing as too many oil changes (though your wallet will hate you after awhile).

I think Ford’s recommendation is to just follow the oil-life monitor, which will probably tell you to change it every 5000 - 8000 miles or so.

I did the old-school way on my Mustang GT. Than I was asking the same question when picking up my 2.7l Bronco. The answer was that I will have never so high-quality oil in engine that is that directly from production. So the recommendation was to follow the oil-life monitor.

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