Vendor 1 says it will cost you $50,000 and it will take 4 months, vendor 2 says it will cost you $100,000 and it will take 2 months, vendor 3 says it will cost you $60,000 and it will take 3 months. The average bid is $70,000, which what you put when estimating the cost of this task in your project budget. Vendor bid analysis can also be used to estimate the length of the task, by averaging all the durations submitted by the vendors in their bids. In the above example, the average length of the task is 3 months.
These days they both recommend every 5,000 miles and change the filter every time. And some people now say oil will last 10,000 miles, and we would protect the environment by not changing it as often. A 125cc bike engine works harder than a car. So I'd say changing it every 3000 miles might be justifiable.
Before the initial publication of this article in August 2010, we took a 2007 Honda Fit to Jiffy Lube for an oil change to see what might happen to the average car owner. The car had an oil life monitoring system, and the system had recommended the past two oil change intervals at 5,500 miles and 7,600 miles on non-synthetic oil. In both cases, an engine oil analysis revealed that the oil could have provided at least another 2,000 miles of service.