General vehicle thread

[MrPrena]

Fcp EuRO forgot to send transmission filter
After contacting customer service, they overnighted the filter.

[Erni]

Just spend 10 minutes in wallmart comparing oil qualifications on back of bottles. Mobil 1 and Penzoil Platnium were the only 2 rated per the euro spec level called out in wides car. Went with PP due to some other owners recomending it. Ironically the owner manual calls out castrol edge pro, which is unobtanium. Castrol Edge is not rated to the spec level required, and their website did not specify if it met that level.

Somedays I hate the CDO.

[ray1970]

I don't buy all of the oil hype. I have a truck that has had the oil changed religiously about every 10-15K miles with whatever cheap oil is handy and it is going to roll over 260K miles this week.

[brutal]

I don't buy all of the oil hype. I have a truck that has had the oil changed religiously about every 10-15K miles with whatever cheap oil is handy and it is going to roll over 260K miles this week.

I use dino oil in my truck (Rotella T) but it sees few miles and gets an oil change twice a year on time alone. Once going tinto towing season in the summer, once coming out. I only put on about 5-6K/year.

I have used Mobil-1 in my bi-turbo A6 2.7T since day 1, changed every 7-10K. That's the spec'd oil. Didn't keep it from losing a turbo, but it's also chipped and the factory K03's already run on the ragged edge. Turbo did not grenade due to oil issues.

[Irving]

I feel the same, but understand that maybe I just don't know. I buy T6 Rotella for my Amigo, but only because those engines have a known oil eating issue and people on line were saying that T6 burned less than others.

[Erni]

I switched to synthetic, mobil 1, after an oil change in my 05 burb once. The oil coming out was regular and I put some on my fingers. I pushed my fingers together and the used oil lubricated no better thsn water. The next change was the same test with synthwtic, but no matter how hard I pressed my fingers together the oil was slipperry. In short, the synthetics are better imho. Burb and commuter car are both 5w30 so its just easier for me to run same oil in both. Commuter car gets flogged mercilesly so I hope synthetic makes the engine go past 160k. The wifes and kids cars have turbos, so I might have bought into the formulated for turbo cars on the PP oil. The only thing I need to figure out now is if the direct fuel injection engine in the Audi is ok with either PP or Mobil 1.
Brutal, how about a ride?

[Gman]

I can't get enough of these videos.

...and people say that redneck motorsports can only turn left.

I think I've seen some of those old Jeeps on the road.

[Great-Kazoo]

IMO Oil changes for me are based on environment. CO i would go 4K with M1 syn in the van, semi syn in the ferd was 3500 and the leetle versa hatchback 4K regular oil. My mc's would get every 3k being rode hard.

Down here with a 60/40 off road in the truck i'm doing 3K, still the same on the other 2. The jeep will be off road so that's a 3k service. Air filters are inspected every 3k. .

If people have concerns about actual oil life and not the color of it, send it out for analysis.

[Erni]

With 3k oil changes you can probably go regular or semi synth. Oil will be dirtier but still be good to go.

[Great-Kazoo]

With 3k oil changes you can probably go regular or semi synth. Oil will be dirtier but still be good to go.

Some people who go 10K don't change their filter somewhere in between that. I'm old school and with dino still do 3-4k tops. If i ran straight syn that long between changes, i'd do oil filters @ the 5 k mark.