Why would I make an gratuitous statement when its clearly on your warranty manual and on your owners operating manual?
and cbus just pointed it out.. Its clearly in ink.

topic has been beaten to death , the point is , if you want your warranty you have to be in the parameters mitsu gives you. If you are not then it gives them another excuse to not warranty the part that is defective.

 

To answer your question. I would change the oil at 3k per the manual. Now if you
plan on modding before your warranty is up and end up voiding the warranty
anyways. I wouldn't worry about it. Do it when you feel it should be done.

Why they changed it? I don't really know. I think it was more of a
"get more money out of you ploy". But I haven't really heard any reason.

 

Most simple answer makes the most sense to me, thanks. I'll cry changing full synthetic every 3k until I've done enough work to void the warranty then it's back to my own game

 

My dealer says its conventional oil for my 2013, but i can still ask for synthetic if i wanted, just have to pay the extra 20 something bucks for it.

 

Problem is the dealers are mis informed. Happened 2x in 4k,
The car is being delivered from the factory with conventional oil. Since dealer used regular oil. I emailed mma, guess what no surprise, they say SYNTHETIC ONLY. This pisses me off, dealers don't know anything. The excuse they have me was ridiculous. As far as the 3k interval that's IF your using conventional oils. The minute I could I got that garbage oil out. I suspect mitsubishi is thinking to use conventional oil for break in, why else would they use something that will cause catastrophic failure. Clogged oil lines, & all the other nasty problems from regular oil. I'm going to do 5k intervals with synthetic, I don't care what mitsu says since we all know they won't cover any problems.since the manual is not clear, notice it says 5 w 30. says zero about synthetic oils. ill go after them if it comes down to it. I'm not going to have a wrecked turbo because some doofus tells me to use regular oil. Might as well use regular gas while I'm at it. Idiots.

 

My manual says in big bold black letters "synthetic oil only do not run conventional oil or damage to engine may occur"

 

Ask your dealer to change your mileage interval. Since your getting an mr they may tell you to di it yourself but if they do it its on them. I had them change it on my gsr after talking to mitsubishi motors north america.

 

I change my oil every 2500 miles. I disabled the maintenance reminder on the imid display. I don't have a navi.

 

Dude where are you getting this information from? you do realize BMW oil change intervals are 15000 miles with full syn right ? regardless of NA or turbo its 15000miles. I believe my brother inlaw's porsche 4S is 10000mile oil change in the manual and so is benz at 10000 miles.

my uncle's porsche 911 turbo , SL55amg get their oil change at 10K the cars are 12 years old and running amazing.

Full syn oils can run over 10k except evo guys like us are super **** and change it 3-5k (if you track it, its good that you change it)

I just met a general manager of BP of ASIA on vacation thru my dad that sells castrol motor oil, and i had to ask him the big old question about oil change interval on turbo cars. he said 10k is fine for DD, but if you track it then 3-5k wont hurt. But he said full syn can last 10k guys.... engine technology and oil quality has improved so much we dont need 3k oil change .... (if you are so paranoid send your oil to a lab to get tested, from all the reports i've seen full syn has enough life for 10k-15k )

 

vw golf r is 10000

 

theres nothing wrong with conventional oil... and yes its preferred oil for breakin by every reputable engine builder will tell you to run conventional to break in a new build for at least a few hundred mile before switch to synthetic if you want to throw your money away and use synthetic

 

^^ so then your not a RISKY GUY if you are not using conventional oil ! haha j/k but seriously it will not cause CATASTROPHIC FAILURE because you use conventional. whats more important is oil change interval 3k if you use conventional and 5k-10k or higher if you use full syn. conventional oil has come a long way technology has made them better. But since we all love our evo's performance to death we use performance oil.... i had 1 free oil change from dealer and they refilled it with dino oil at 1k oil change but then at 3k i switched to full syn again .

 

All this nonsense would be solved if people actually read that neat little paper book Mitsubishi includes called an OWNERS MANUAL! It specifies what kind of oil to use, and how often to change it. Mine (2010) clearly states 5W-30 synthetic oil changed every 5000 miles (normal) or 3750 miles (severe).

 

Wait now they recommend 5w-20? I've always used 5w-30