holy crap guys.
Thicker oil isn't necessarily better. Please understand tribology before you fire off.
Synthetic oil isn't bad for any engine. Unless you're breaking it in...
Greddy synthetic oil is 99% likely that it is just waaaaay overpriced regular synthetic.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by burton51m
tone loc, synthetic oil is the best way to go but is a little more expensive. as for your question about brands i use castrol syntec (full synthetic) 10w-30.
|
Funny thing is, Syntec isn't synthetic. It's just a highly refined Group III base oil.
Quote:
|
In the late 1990s, Castrol started selling an oil made from Group III base oil and called it SynTec Full Synthetic. Mobil sued Castrol, asserting that this oil was not synthetic, but simply a highly refined petroleum oil, and therefore it was false advertising to call it synthetic. In 1999, Mobil lost their lawsuit. It was decided that the word "synthetic" was a marketing term and referred to properties, not to production methods or ingredients. Castrol continues to make SynTec out of Group III base oils, that is highly purified mineral oil with most all of the cockroach bits removed.
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by scruffboy
I was using full syn. but I am now going with Mr.Nickleye's suggestion to use 20w 50. I buy Castrol High Mileage. I'm not sure of what I'll use in the winter. 20w 50 doesn't sound like it'll cut it.
|
I wouldn't go and do that...
I'm using Mobil Delvac1 5w40 in my Subaru. It's synthetic, and it's meant for diesels, so it's a stable oil that should last a long time. It should be fine in the winter, 5w40 means it's a 5w oil at 32*f and 40w at 212*f
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by ton loc
i hear that carquest is kind of a hick auto parts store but whatever.
|
lol, carquest filters are Wix. Wix filters are the best off the shelf filters you can buy. The people that say carquest is a hick auto parts store are the people that buy Fram filters at AutoZone. CarQuest sells parts, not accessories, underglows, shift knobs, or anything else like autozone. That's probably why whoever said it's a hick store.
any other info about oils can be found in these links.
Read them all. You're doing yourself a favor by doing so.
http://tinyurl.com/azn5o
http://tinyurl.com/ouk7t
http://tinyurl.com/363cu
http://tinyurl.com/b7kr6