Synthetic can help w/ breakdown, but not w/ the amount of dirt/contaminants that get in your oil.
Do you live on dirt or paved roads?
I use the dead-dino juice and change at the "severe driving" recomdations, but I
take short trips (10 miles is normal drive), in extreme cold (SD), and live on a dirt road
Any one of these is "severe", so even if I paid for the synthetic I'd still have dirt and combustion by-products in my oil, and water that isn't getting boiled out.
That said, I haven't lost a vehicle to oil-failure since I spun a rod in my old air cooled VW in the 1980s. My wife can kill a transmission while the engine is still pulling strong, or the car rusts away, body integrity fails, etc.
I've started just changing the oil when it tells me to (light on dash) for my "new" (10 year old) Honda. I do my Dodge truck every 3k or every year. The other vehicles (tractors, trucks, SUV) get changed by the calendar rather than by the hour/mile since I've got several older vehicles that don't get driven as much as the truck and the Honda.
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