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Good question! Since I do not have my truck I haven't had to actually really think about it.just wondering does this mean you are doing your first oil change at 7500 miles?
I plan to break in the truck and do my oil changes as recommended by Ford in the manual.
To this point I have not seen an "expert" prove that Ford is incorrect, through oil analysis or some other testing process that makes sense to me. That being said, if the first oil change is done early it doesn't hurt anything and one could argue it is preventative. I have heard tell of additives in the factory oil that you don't want to remove by changing factory oil early. From what I have read from searching their are no additives in the factory oil.
The Edmunds article I put up (to me) is more about doing the oil changes early / every 3000 rather than the higher number manufacturers have in their manual. I do my own changing oil in two 06 Range Rovers every 7500 like the manual recommends. I bought one with 40k miles and the other with 113k and both are over 200k now - running perfectly..
I plan on buying extended warranty because I think some other failure, not oil related, is more than likely to be an issue no matter when you do your oil changes, assuming you change oil at least as recommended by Ford.
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