I've had my oil changed at the dealer and I know they use Valvoline but what viscosity do they use? 10W-30 or 5W-20??

If there's anything better out there let me know.

 

the cap on my car says 5-30. thats what i use.

 

royal purple 5-30

 

I use Pennzoil 10-40

The reason I use it is because my job is pretty far from my house and i'm constantly
in stop and go traffic. Pennzoil is good ( and cheap ) for this type of punishment.

 

pennzoil is the worst oil on the market.. it took them the longest out of any major motor oil manufacture to take the wax out of the oil

 

Meh.

I didn't know that but my car seems to respond to it pretty well.
However, now that you brought this to my attention I will be going for
the purple stuff.

 

Pennzoil sux, and that's coming from someone who lives in pennsylvania

Valvoline is good, I use mobil 1 myself, mobil 1 is for s

 

how much for the royal purple stuff? does it make that much of a difference? i've always gone with quaker state myself...

 

i think its....purple

 

You think Pennzoil is bad. My grandfathers mechanic came out of the shop with a glove full of crap and said "you use quaker state don't you?" Your better off with anything but quakerstate.

 

Don't have anything to say except.....damn I love that avatar jpeek. If you look at it look enough it will hypnotize you!!!!

 

 

 

Valvoline 5-30 synthetic.

Used it in my Civic, RIP 304,000+ - sold it to a friend and he twisted the cam, then he took a hatchet to it, Integra, RIP 194,000+ - rear-ended and totaled. Now, I use it in the CL, 104,000+.

Great stuff that Valvoline/Mobile 1- synthetic oil, stay away from the Penn State oils.

 

i use mobile 1... but when i go to the track dyno i'm going to put in royal purple (proven to give you more power)

 

How's Chevron Oil? I think Chevron Supreme the place uses I go to.

 

 

you have the best avator ive ever seen thirdrail

 

royal purple does add hp cuz on horsepower tv they used the tansmission fluid and anitfreeze add in and oil and i think thats it and it added like 10 hp or something close to that

 

i use castrol 10w-30, most of my drivings is normal easy conditions, not a lot of stop and go, and not a lot of high speed/high revving. castrol is pretty good stuff...in my opinion

 

Thanks bro!

 

Mobil 1 5W-30

 

The word is 10W30 protects your engine better than 5W30 if you do a lot of short trips around town where your engine has to go through the warm up cycle a lot because it's thicker until your engine is completely warmed up. This would be at the expense of fuel economy. I heard the only reason Ford came out with the 5W20 oil requirement for their engines was to improve the CAFE gas mileage of part of their fleet of cars by calling for piss-thin oil which was self-serving of them.

I use Castrol Syntec synthetic 10W30 blend but I'm not convinced it's any better than regular oil. I always have to top it up for some reason..

Also watch the oil change while you wait places which most people in here don't use, they don't leave enough time for all the sludge to come out of your engine, if there is any.

Next time I'm going to use either Mobil 1 or a non-cheapo 10W30. In Calgary winters if it gets really cold I'd rather have synthetic 10W30 instead of regular when the temperatures get to the point where I'm supposed to use 5W30.

Anybody on here use Amsoil? I don't understand why it costs so much more then Mobil 1, Amsoil being such an old product line.

 

Valvoline 5-30 synthetic is the way i go......

 

Use mobil 1,m if ur stop and go 10-40/30. if ur racin 5-30 fast3er piston speed but less protection.

 

Genuine HONDA

or

Mobil 1

 

Mobil 1 - Good Price, Good Protection


and its for the PIMPS

Nuff said

 

mobile 1 everytime..

dang.. $50 every time..

(i don't like getting dirty, so i don't do it by myself)

 

Mobile 1 10w-30. Just recently switched from 5w-30.

Get it as Walmart. It's only like 18 bucks for the 5 quart jug.

 

dang nippon! do u use synthetic?

i use mobile regular formula and its 30 bucks an oil change

 

will the 5 quart jug be enough (top off etc.) on a 2.3 oil change?

 

 

 

i use either valvoline or mobil 1 10W30.

if you have a cold climate some parts of the year, you might want 5W30.

 

I use amsoil. It is far superior than other synthetics. Check out all performance tests. They guarentee that you only need to drain it every 25k miles, because it breaks down so much slower.

I am surprised that more people here do not use it. It is probably because most oil change places do not offer it, which is understandable considering their business.

I buy at a local dealer here and pay for service only at oil lube places.

 

I use Red Line, Royal Purple, or Castrol. But for the most part, only Castrol. (get tired of having to order the other stuff and wait for it to do an oil change....)

 

So how is Chevron ? and also Valvoline "MAX LIFE" (or is that some kind of bs?)

 

Chevron synthetic is actually just as good. They all pass the same tests that gives them the SAE and API rating. What differs between them all, is the additives they put in their oil. Which gives them the higher price per quart.......

 

AMSoil is different from the rest. It is a true synthetic. Others use a process to make a chemical change in regular oil, so it is cheap and can use the synthetic name (they took it to the courts over the matter).

check out the performances on different synthetic oils:

http://tinyurl.com/8c4jy

 

I dont know if i trust AMSoil. if you do research on the internet, you come across an awful lot of suspicious posts on forums that flaunt the alleged superiority of AMSoil. also, AMSoil seems to throw a lot of propoganda out there...

I would stick with a FULLY synthetic, not a blend. Mobil-1 is good. Use 5w-30, it is what Honda recommends for your car. It's good from -30 to +40 deg C. Which should be fine for most climates.

Oh, and why the hell would you want to wait over 3000 miles for an oil change? I do believe oil filters are good for only roughly that mileage....