good advice the last few posts...

How many miles on the car? It may, actually, not be dirty at all...so you may have no issues at all. As pointed out the color is NOT an indicator, and letting a modern synthetic 'long change interval' oil sit for months is NOT an issue as well.

The detergents in the fresh oil will, to a certain extent, clean up the engine- so a few short change intervals would me a plan- but again, there is no real indicator you have an issue.

FYI- The oil in these cars can go one year sitting in a garage with no issue.

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