talko17

I have a 2013 c63 with 7500 miles. I got service A done last April at 4500 miles. I'm now getting the "check oil at next refueling" warning. Do I need to take it for service B already at just 9 months and 3000 miles after service A?

Jasonoff

You need to top it up with oil.

m a x i m u s

I believe this is clearly and plainly stated in the owners manual.

AMG6.3

Yes, you just need to top off oil. I do 10,000 miles per oil change which is around every 7 months.

odonnks

From the owners manual...
I check mine frequently and always keep a few qts in the garage. If I were going on the road for a trip I'd store a few qts in a box in the trunk.

General notes on the oil level

Depending on the driving style, the vehicle
consumes up to 0.9 US qt (0.8 liters) of oil
over a distance of 600 miles (1,000 km). The
oil consumption may be higher than this when
the vehicle is new or if you frequently drive at

high engine speeds.

TTA850

I changed my oil at 2500 miles, 5000 miles and every 5000 thereafter - in 27000 miles I had the car it never consumed oil. I'd always check the level before an oil change and it was at or very near the full mark, never had to add.

OlegKouz

When this happens I usually do a top off as mentioned and the issue goes away. I have been changing oil every 7,500 miles or so, but I think a little higher is recommended..I just like to be safe since I daily drive

bhamg

I think most here change their oil too soon but if you're doing 10k miles OCI's you should have a UOA done if you haven't already. It'd be well worth the $25 to check on the wear metals IMO...probably should get a TBN reading (extra $10) too while you're at it.

Jasonoff

ezshift5

............after reading the manual (RTFM)............

10,000


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black lavender

10,000 seems too high for an oil change interval.

I change oil around 5000

ToXicXxX

Every 4000km. Am I crazy? Maybe.

AMG6.3

Mine are all highway miles and I follow manual. My audi was 10K as well. Full synthethic oil does not break down as fast as conventional.

jcfay

Dear God I can't believe we're having this discussion again. Yes, manual. Every 10K or annually. If you want to change more often, that is forbidden by the mighty MB AMG God, so don't even put it out there. Your engine will be stuck down by lightning bolts from above and you'll be forced to live out the rest of your days driving at Kia.

m a x i m u s

Don't forget that also:

(1) your head bolts will fail,
(2) you will automatically have the wrong size spacers,
(3) your tires will wear out,
(4) you will have purchased the wrong brake pads

jcfay

and you will no longer be able to do burn outs, only "burn ins". and since this may come up the answer is Mobil 1 0W-40 and yes they sell it at walmart. and a mityvac is nice. don't get fake chinese knock-off oil filters. and yes you can recycle your oil.

Diabolis

I do mine every 6K km with M1 0W40. Yes, some may consider it overkill, but I ain't afraid of them wrong sized spacers...

Mort

Haha...I do mine once a year which is about 5500km. If I go on a long trip I always get a tail wind my car likes me so much. I use a MB filter because it costs too much to buy a cheap one from the US and ship it here. Besides the people who live here have to eat and heat their homes too.

abcut973

I do mine every 5000 miles so roughly once a year.
If you track aggressively and regularly your car you might want to do it more often.

Diabolis

Agreed - on the track rat I dump the oil every two DE weekends (I try not to actually dump in ON the track, which I have done once - killed the rest of the afternoon for everyone while the crews were cleaning it up as it easily covered a third of the track. I wasn't very popular for the rest of the day).

Incidentally, driving mostly short distances in the city where the oil doesn't get up and STAY up at the usual 105 C for a period of time so some of the the water in the crankcase can evaporate is another reason to change it more often (water is a byproduct of combustion and it turns the oil acidic). Yet another reason to use an oil with a higher TBN if you mostly drive short trips.

CarHopper

Wait, we need to change the oil in this car? I thought it was electric.

abcut973

lol! Yeah that is right you are the one driving that tesla P85S????

deadfission

^HA

CarHopper

That thing is quick as hell. It would demolish our c63's from a dig

Diabolis

Unless you're talking about the new P85D, it won't. It can't even keep up with a base C63. It has less power, it weighs an extra 800 lbs and tops out at 210 km/h.

The P85D with its ~700 hp and 4WD is a different beast altogether. That will leave anything in the dust, but again it doesn't corner well because of all the extra weight.

Now, comparing the two is really more of an apples and oranges thing than anything else. The fact that Tesla has managed to build even the P85 is a great accomplishment; the P85D is on another level altogether. I'd love to own either one and use it as a DD. The problem with fully electric cars is that unlike a C63 you can't just stop by at the nearet gas station and in 5 minutes have juice for the next 350 km - the Tesla has to charge 1 hour for every 35 km, so 10 hours for 350 km (assuming that you have a 240V charging station, otherwise it's even longer). The ONLY thing holding back electrics is the charging time for the batteries, and unfortunately it's the big oil companies that are severely hampering the development of new fast-charge battery technologies. If it wasn't for the trillions of dollars that big oil makes annually, a $100 billion annual R&D fund could likely develop batteries that would make internal combustion engines obsolete in 5 years. Just as a reference point, big pharma spent $112 billion on R&D in 2013. Volkswagen on their own spent $11.4 billion (Daimler did $6.6 billion) - so it's certainly doable if it wasn't for the economic and thus political obstacles.