Synthetic Oil

[KARNUT]

 

We put together equipment to mow trees. It started out with mowing 8 inches and under trees and brush. We did lots of right of mowing in Ok, Texas etc on pipeline and utilities ROW. The turned into Sales and service of that equipment. That's the short version.

 

I doing 15,000 miles / 1 yr with my current truck, warranty or not, years of experience has proven it works so I don't ever worry about warranty.

 

Once back in the late 70's we were staying motel and it was real cold that week, down to -30°. Went to leave to head home on Friday and no one could get their vehicle started but me. Would not turn over fast enough to fire. Needless to say, all the guys on my survey crew were synthetic oil converts.

 

 

PS - Whats ROW equipment? I worked for state DOT and ROW means 'Right of Way' to me.

I think my answer disappeared. We build and sell tree clearing equipment that's mows down trees like a lawn mower. We've been doing that since the 70s. There'd use a lot on pipeline ROWs and utility ROWS on anything like skid steers to 1000 HP monsters.

 

 

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[Z45]

Its inside my quote.

 

We use to have to watch them clearing contractors along the highways because some would tear out everything. Once had the clearing contractor wipe a bunch of section corners along stretch is US 2 highway that the US Forest Service had set at great expense. They were po'd, took a lot of the reference marks as well which made resetting a lot of work. The contractor did not care and refused to pay for resetting them. Don't know if the USFS got any $$ out of him, against state law to destroy survey markers.

[KARNUT]

Its inside my quote.

Yea, I should know better. I was doing my morning walk and chewing gum.

[Grumpy Bear]

Redline, Mobil 1 or Quaker State Ultimate Durability selected by price. Recently Quaker State has been the fill as it is Walmart's price leader in five quart for $20. Filters for quite some time I ran Bosh Premium or Mobil 1 but more recently I've switched to Purolator standard in the red box. Dad convinced me after a few trucks flawless to a half million miles Purolator was just fine.

 

I'm the odd ball that changes full synthetics every 5,000 miles except Redline. It goes 7500. It's an ester that neither shear nor thermally breaks down at sane temperatures and contains nearly nothing for VI enhancement.

 

Synthetic oil is looked at by many like Prilosec for your motor. Why do people use the little purple pill? So they can continue abusing themselves by eating the stuff that gives them heartburn. There is more to oil than high thermal breakdown resistance. Most know that synthetics are "better" than straight mineral oils but cost 2 or 3 times as much. That is the reason most run them 2 to 3 times longer. $$$$ Justification.

 

The question you have to ask yourself is what is your definition of "better". At my rate of driving and my style of driving the body and frame fall apart before the motor ever lets out a whimper. My motors find homes as replacements for others still serviceable trucks nearly as good as the day they were new with a quarter million miles on them. I could likely run Phillips Trop-Artic 10W30 mineral oil changed every 3000 and do just as well. Dad does.

[MaverickZ71]

Pennzoil Platinum for full synthetic or Pennzoil Gold for synthetic blend, both Dexos1 approved. ACDelco oil filters (non e-core) from cache bought when they invented the no-good e-cores.

[KARNUT]

If it make you happy to change more often by all means do it. My 94 Z28 went once a year or 25K till I sold it at 130K. My 91 Ram Cummings went 300K @ 25K miles. I could use many examples. Saying that was I comfortable do it,not till the yearly oil analysis came in. I also have 17 year old lawn mower 2 oil changes, that lazy on my part still going. I don't drive enough now so once a year is easy. Our ROW equipment use to go 200 hrs eating dust all day. We sometimes had to blow out the air filters twice a day. Amsoil allowed us to double that.

 

Redline, Mobil 1 or Quaker State Ultimate Durability selected by price. Recently Quaker State has been the fill as it is Walmart's price leader in five quart for $20. Filters for quite some time I ran Bosh Premium or Mobil 1 but more recently I've switched to Purolator standard in the red box. Dad convinced me after a few trucks flawless to a half million miles Purolator was just fine.

 

I'm the odd ball that changes full synthetics every 5,000 miles except Redline. It goes 7500. It's an ester that neither shear nor thermally breaks down at sane temperatures and contains nearly nothing for VI enhancement.

 

Synthetic oil is looked at by many like Prilosec for your motor. Why do people use the little purple pill? So they can continue abusing themselves by eating the stuff that gives them heartburn. There is more to oil than high thermal breakdown resistance. Most know that synthetics are "better" than straight mineral oils but cost 2 or 3 times as much. That is the reason most run them 2 to 3 times longer. $$$$ Justification.

 

The question you have to ask yourself is what is your definition of "better". At my rate of driving and my style of driving the body and frame fall apart before the motor ever lets out a whimper. My motors find homes as replacements for others still serviceable trucks nearly as good as the day they were new with a quarter million miles on them. I could likely run Phillips Trop-Artic 10W30 mineral oil changed every 3000 and do just as well. Dad does.

[KARNUT]

Excuse the double post phone cliche I think.

 

 

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[DareDog]

Mobil 1 extended performance here. Changed it every 7500 miles.

[Coby7]

I run every one of my machines on Valvoline full Syntec. Been doing this ever since it appeared and was cheaper than Amzoil. Tried Pennzoil Platinum in the wife's G6 but it wouldn't stay in the pan for some reason, her car ( 2.4l ecotec ) would drop a liter every 2000 kms. Kept adding oil for 10000Kms then switched back to Valvoline and oil usage went back to normal half a liter every 5000Kms. Actually that's an approximation since I change the filter at this time and topped up with almost 3/4 of a liter.

[Dr Awesome]

_{I use Mobil 1 full sythetic 5W-30 in my '09 silverado. I recently read that it isn't a true group 4 or 5 synthetic (meaning it's not actually fully synthetic like it suggests), but it's still a good oil and I run variants of it in all of my motors with no issues.}

[KARNUT]

Mobil 1 was used in my trailblazer ss from the factory and the oil change recommendation was between 12-15 K from GM.

[lawn_star]

Currently doing 10,000k intervals on Mobil 1 oil. My local walmart usually has it on sale for $22 a 5 quart jug.

[Dnt]

Trying some Valvoline SYNPower now since my local Walmart was out of the Mobile EP but I am running a Mobil1 EP filter. The Valvoline SYNPower is a bit cheaper than the mobile EP oil. Specs look about the same and I think both are great synthetic oils. The mobil1 filter is consistently rated very high. I feel comfortable with 7500 miles with this combo and if the oil life monitor still shows good life 35 to 40% at 7500 I might let it go 10,000 miles before changing.

[Doug Rosewood]

Mobil 1, in 2004 and in my 2016

[repairman54]

Any synth. oil you want to use is good as long as it has a API certification on the label.

No API certification then it's overpriced BS snake oil in my book as there is no way to verify it meets standards like SJ or SN

Dexos is just a minimum synth. oil rating that gives GM a slice of the pie.