Surely the time between oil changes matters too. Mercedes recommends an oil change at least once a year. If I changed oil once every 10K miles, I'd be changing it about once every 3 years.

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2004 VW Jetta TDI (manual)

Past MB's: '96 E300D, '83 240D, '82 300D, '87 300D, '87 420SEL