03-22-2015, 12:01 AM
I'd split the difference.
Run it a couple hundred more miles. If you DIDN'T change it, you're not that far from your maintenance schedule. If you DID do it, you're not throwing out completely-pure oil.
Maintenance is like cooking - it's an inexact science. Forgetting to change the oil for a few thousand miles, or a few hundred the first time...not good but far from a calamity. Just get back on schedule.
Get a yellow junkyard crayon and put a date on your new, clean oil filter - so there's no question next go-round.
Run it a couple hundred more miles. If you DIDN'T change it, you're not that far from your maintenance schedule. If you DID do it, you're not throwing out completely-pure oil.
Maintenance is like cooking - it's an inexact science. Forgetting to change the oil for a few thousand miles, or a few hundred the first time...not good but far from a calamity. Just get back on schedule.
Get a yellow junkyard crayon and put a date on your new, clean oil filter - so there's no question next go-round.
