{"id":92,"date":"2025-07-29T15:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T15:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spetrich.soisweb.uwm.edu\/?page_id=92"},"modified":"2025-07-29T23:23:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:23:04","slug":"oil-changes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spetrich.soisweb.uwm.edu\/?page_id=92","title":{"rendered":"Motor oil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The basics of motor oil changing:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First: If your vehicle has less than 75,000 miles and is less than 5 years old you probably want to run synthetic oil. If your vehicle has more than 75,000 miles and is older than 5 years (or burns\/leaks oil) then you will want to run either conventional or semi-synthetic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second: See what cold-temperature viscosity the vehicle uses. For example most vehicles made around the year 2005 used 5W-30. Around the year 2018 vehicles began more commonly using 0W-20. Usually this information is either on the motor oil cap and if not is in the manual.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Third: See the following video from 1A Auto on how to change the oil for the vehicle\u2019s motor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Change Engine Oil ANY Vehicle By Yourself! (BEST GUIDE)\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nl0mFkpvAvM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The basics of motor oil changing:&nbsp; First: If your vehicle has less than 75,000 miles and is less than 5 years old you probably want to run synthetic oil. If your vehicle has more than 75,000 miles and is older than 5 years (or burns\/leaks oil) then you will want to run either conventional or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-92","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spetrich.soisweb.uwm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spetrich.soisweb.uwm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spetrich.soisweb.uwm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spetrich.soisweb.uwm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spetrich.soisweb.uwm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/spetrich.soisweb.uwm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/spetrich.soisweb.uwm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spetrich.soisweb.uwm.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}