Synth oil change frequency for minimally driven car

2001 V70XC 118k miles.

This is our extra car now and probably sees 150 miles a month these days. Running mobil 1 5W-30 and coming up on one year. Probably only 3k miles on this oil so far.

So how often should I change synthetic oil if I'm doing 1500 miles a year?

PCV is recently done and the motor has no sign of any sludge that I know of. Wife uses the car for short school kids pick up trips on Fridays when she needs the 3rd row. I plan to take it for a 60mi highway trip every couple of weeks visiting relatives and give it a good run.

At this mileage rate, I wonder what my repair$/mile looks like even with full DIY. Just did the prop shaft CV, chasing a random coolant leak that I can't find and one of the hood struts just failed :cool:

Every year

I agree - once a year...

Why don't you drive the XC anymore? And I agree with everyone else just change the oil and filter every year if you are driving that low of miles!

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Originally Posted by n00bkiller944

Why don't you drive the XC anymore? And I agree with everyone else just change the oil and filter every year if you are driving that low of miles!

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Got an extra car as my father doesn't drive anymore. So we now have 3 cars and 2 drivers. The other two cars are Prius and Corolla and better for daily short commutes to/from work and shuttling the kids around their activities. But I put about 100 miles on the XC this weekend on long highway trips :) Definitely a great highway cruiser :)

I'll change oil annually and hope to get 3000 mi on the car each year :)