Is there any benefits to using synthetic?
Also, do you absolutely need to use a "synthetic" oil filter?
How many miles on the car?
Less than 75K, I'd recommend synthetic. My personal prefereance right now is penzoil platinum. Over 75K, I'd go with a high mileage oil. Valvoline makes a high mileage that is also a Semi Synthetic. You can find it at walmart pretty cheap and just about any parts store. If you really want to spend a crap ton of money, go to napa and have them order you some Valvoline high mileage full synthetic oil. That stuff is like 8 bucks a quart. If your lucky you might be able to find some in the stores but I couldn't find any.
Stick with an AC-Delco filter and change it with your oil. Even if you stretch your oil changes out to 5K with synthetic.
My car has 101 300 miles, so I guess ill just keep using Castrol GTX High Mileage.
MiniTransAm/02WS6TA wrote:How many miles on the car?
Less than 75K, I'd recommend synthetic. My personal prefereance right now is penzoil platinum. Over 75K, I'd go with a high mileage oil. Valvoline makes a high mileage that is also a Semi Synthetic. You can find it at walmart pretty cheap and just about any parts store. If you really want to spend a crap ton of money, go to napa and have them order you some Valvoline high mileage full synthetic oil. That stuff is like 8 bucks a quart. If your lucky you might be able to find some in the stores but I couldn't find any.
Stick with an AC-Delco filter and change it with your oil. Even if you stretch your oil changes out to 5K with synthetic.
QFT i love pennzoil currently.
i tried a few diff motor oils on my car...
MOBIL fully synthetic
Pennzoil plat. synthetic
Royal Purple
Valvoline Synthetic.
royal purple was on sale and i loved how smoothly my car idled with it. im not going to say i felt more power. i just felt a smoother quieter engine.
pennzoil was my second favorite and ironically enough mobil i hated.......... it felt so rough on start ups.
valvoline was ok.
i stick with pennzoil now. its usually on sale, and i stock up.
find something that works for you.
dont start synthetic oils after 50-75k or you may develop some leakage and problems.
but if you start and stick with it young, its been proven to extend the life of your vehicle. HTH
254,000 yes 250K on my 01 z24 and no motor problems or really any problems and I use mobile-1 fully synthetic and that is all I have ever used, once in a while I will use mobile 1 high mileage of i think of it
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I bought my 05 cav in June of 2006 with 23,xxx on the clock. At 30k i switched to Quakerstate fully synthetic 5w-30.
Now I have almost 80k on the clock, no problems here, I noticed a increase of 1-2 mpg with the fully synthetic.
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I have over a 100k and i used Mobil 1. I love it and I have noticed no oil leaks plus I agree that I got a little higher gas mileage on the highway. If you are worried about leaks go with a 10 W30 instead of 5 W30. It is normally recommended to do so on older engines anyways.
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