How To | Change Engine Oil on Nissan Xterra | 2011 Nissan Xterra 2ND GEN

Changing the engine oil on your Nissan Xterra is super easy. In this video I show you how to perform this staple of vehicle maintenance.

[@joescott7027]

Change oil every 3 months or 3000 miles? No one recommends this except oil change shops that want to sell you oil changes. Reuse the oil filter? That's bonkers. I am old and I have never heard of that................

[@SingleMaltMotors]

Thanks for watching. To your comments, the oil change interval is in the service manual and pretty common knowledge. This is especially true for high mileage vehicles. You may have missed the part where I point out this girl has roughly 230K miles. As for reuse of the filter, 1) I didn't, and 2) it only had 2K miles on it and that would be completely reasonable. Thanks again for watching.

[@joescott7027]

The reason I know something about 2011 Xterras is we have owned one for 5 years. Sadly I am in Moab Ut. and the car is in Phoenix Az.so I can not walk out and check the manual. I change the oil and filter myself but I am pretty sure it says 5K to 7K miles depending on use. Is that not what the owners manual says? I guess that reusing the oil filter must be unique to your area because I have never ever heard of taking an old filter off, draining it and putting it back on.........Thanks

[@SingleMaltMotors]

@@joescott7027 This is my second Xterra and I am quite familiar with the vehicle. Service manual says every 3k miles or 3 months. You are welcome to change at any interval you like, however this girl has 230K miles and I am a proponent of preventive maintenance. As far as re-using a filter, if I were to reuse it then I wouldn't remove it at all and simply drain and fill the oil. As I said, the old filter only had 2200 miles on it and was perfectly fine, but I changed it regardless. Thanks for watching.