Service Intervals for new common rail vehicles

Submitted: Wednesday, Jan 12, 2011 at 17:05
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Hi Eveyone,
A question that has been bugging me is "how often should we conduct oil/filter changes on a new common rail vehicle". The manufacturers recommendation is 10,000 km which I have been following up to now, but on my previous vehicle I used to change the oil every 5,000 km and oil filter every 10,000 km.

Now the new common rail engines have much tigher tolerances and the oil certainly seems to stay cleaner for longer than my previous diesel. Is this a reason to stick to the 10k interval or should I change more regularly (as I previously did) to be on the safe side?

What are other owners doing?

Cheers, Geoff
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