If you change your oil every 3000 miles, you are abusing your engine !!

When an oil manufacture builds a motor oil product, that product is put through several industry tests.
One of the most significant is the ASTM Sequence IIIf test.
The API (American Petroleum Institute) requires this test to enable a manufacturer to include the API “donut” symbol and/or the “starburst” on the packaging.
In this test, the oil is run in a 6 cylinder motor for 80 hours.  Among the many items measured at the end of the test is the viscosity. If the viscosity increases by more than 275 percent, it fails the test.
If the oil passes the test, then the manufacturer is permitted to display the API symbol on their bottle.

There’s two major components to oil. The base stock and the additive package. The additive package protects the base stock and the base protects the engine and its components. The base stock makes up approx. 15 percent of the cost of producing a quart of oil and the additive package is approx. 85 percent.
Because competition is so tough and if you buy a quart of oil, you expect to get a full quart, the only place they can reduce costs is in the additive package.
Now where do you think most oils on the market test at ?
How many oil manufacturers are so concerned about your vehicle that they greatly exceed the requirements of the API ?
That’s right – NOT MANY !!!
Most people average 30 mph, which means it will take 100 hours of driving to reach 3000 miles (that does not include the time your engine is running while at a stop light or while warming up before you begin to drive). That is 20 hours after the oil has failed.
OK, be honest, how many of you stretch your oil changes to 3500,4000,4500 – 7500?

With that said, there are two options you have.
1) Install an hour meter on your vehicle and change the oil every 50-60 hours.
2) Add an oil supplement at every oil change to help make up the difference. The best product on the market is BG MOA.

With MOA, a standard 10w-30 oil had only a 150 percent viscosity increase after tripling the length of the sequence IIIf test.
240 hours.
The moral is…. Ask for MOA by name.

 MOA, For the life of your engine !!!