[s-cars] Synthetic oil weight rec's

[Taka Mizutani]

I just bought some Mobil 1 5W40 turbodiesel truck oil to use for my V70R-
last time I checked, this oil had the best flash point and pour temps of any
of the Mobil 1 synthetics and it's 20% more than the regular Mobil 1 at
Wal-Mart. Since my car calls for 5W30, that's what I'm going to use.

For your car, Wylie, I'd suggest the same and see how you do, oil
consumption wise, because most of the I-5 cars don't like lighter oils.

For a Shell product, I'd look to Rotella synthetic 5W40. Excellent oil-
that's what we use in our turbodiesel truck fleet.

Also, for a real answer, you need to do oil analysis to see how your car is
doing with a particular oil.

Taka








On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Ben Swann <benswann at verizon.net> wrote:

> If I can find it, I use Syntec 5W50.
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> Ben
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> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 14:46:51 +0000
> From: "Wylie Bean" <theringmeister at triad.rr.com>
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> s-hedz,
> Not to start a "brand" debate, but I'm a typical Castrol 20W-50 user, and
> would
> appreciate rec's on what weight full synthetic to use since I'm not finding
> anything. Is
> Rotella 15W40 a wise choice (dino) or should I move over to Mobil 1
>  15W-50? (sucks that
> it's not sold in 5q jugs but oh well).
>
> Wylie Bean
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