How Long Can You Drive After the Car Alerts You to Change the Oil?

[ClaytonRose]

When the car prompts "change oil immediately," you can still drive approximately 10,000 kilometers. Below is relevant information about car engine oil: 1. For new cars under normal driving conditions, if synthetic oil is used, the oil can generally be changed every 10,000 kilometers, and some can even go up to 20,000 kilometers. Automotive maintenance professionals consider "normal driving" to mean frequent highway driving with minimal stop-and-go traffic. However, if you often drive in the city, encountering traffic lights everywhere, frequent traffic jams, and most trips not exceeding more than a dozen kilometers, this type of driving is considered "severe driving." 3. Engine oil is to a car what blood is to the human body; the engine is the heart of the car. During engine operation, piston movements create friction, and gasoline combustion in the cylinders can raise temperatures inside the engine to as high as 600°C, also generating waste such as metal particles from friction.