What kind of motor oil do you put in your car?

[PICK3]

Motor oil? What does that do?

It's used as a colonic.

 

[Buddy_Christ]

Define "regular". I hope you don't mean every 3000 miles, because that's a waste, a scam on the public foisted by Jiffy Lube. If the owner's manual says to change it every 5000-7500 miles, then that's regular enough.

I do it about every 3500-4000 miles, provided I remember (which I usually do). I have taken some of my cars 5000 miles between oil changes and don't like to do so. Some of the older cars I've owned, the oil comes out with the thickness of water after 4000 miles. I just changed my oil after 3k miles in my car. Might be a little early by some people's standards, but I didn't mind. To me, oil changes are like sex: I like everything nice and lubed up and moving smoothly. It feels better when it's wetter. If it's good for my dick it's good for my engine

I have never seen anything that says you can be hurting your engine by doing oil changes every 3-4K miles. Why would it and how could it hurt anything?

I've been using Castrol for a while. The one thing I try to avoid like the plague is Fram oil filters. I've heard so much bad shit about them it's not even funny. A couple of years back, someone took a bunch of motorcycle oil filters and tested them out. They were curious to know if the OEM filter was better than aftermarket and worth the price of $15/each and what alternatives there were. Quality of OEM filter depended on the manufacturer, but Fram came in as one of their worst filters because of the materials used.


4everhung - the only dealings I've had with turbo engines were 903 cu in turbo diesels. They didn't rev very high, around 4200rpm if the engine was healthy and everything was set up right. The turbos were huge, you could stick a closed fist in the inlet/outlet. We used regular cheap ass oil in them, but I know they are a world apart from a 9K+ rpm turbo gasoline engine.

 

[Mr. dB]

I have never seen anything that says you can be hurting your engine by doing oil changes every 3-4K miles. Why would it and how could it hurt anything?

No one said it hurts anything, apart from your pocketbook.

 

[Spartacus]

Define "regular". I hope you don't mean every 3000 miles, because that's a waste, a scam on the public foisted by Jiffy Lube. If the owner's manual says to change it every 5000-7500 miles, then that's regular enough.

that's what the guys concluded in that link
synthetic mobil one held up for 18000 miles and only needed a filter change at the 12k mark

 

[PICK3]

Just got my oil changed. Went with Mobil 1 and a Wix filter.

Mobil 1, $3.99/qt at K-mart x 4 quarts = $16
Carquest (Wix) filter = $7
Labor = $10
Total = $33 + tax

 

[Spartacus]

look around and you can usaully spot a quik change place with a "ladies day"
fuck the 2 dollar savings I'm just lookin' to hang with some slags while my engine is serviced

 

[Buddy_Christ]

No one said it hurts anything, apart from your pocketbook.

It doesn't hurt the wallet very much, at least with regular oil. I havn't run nor do I feel the need to run syntethic.

The only oil I've ever been really picky about is motorcycle oil. Bel Ray was the only oil I liked to use in the crankcase. Even then, I used their regular oil, not the synthetic or semi-synth. I used regular motor oil in the bike once and within 4K miles watched it start to change colors and thin out.

I think some people were having problems with certain synth and semi-synth oils in motorcycles. There was something in the oil that would make the clutch plates slip as they were wet clutches and shared the crankcase oil.

 

[Spartacus]

I use synthetic in the lawnmower

 

[Steve The Bluesman]

My car gets Mobil 1 (that's what the manual calls for)

Wife's car and my bike get Castrol GTX. I had a mechanic tell me once he would drink that stuff if he could.


Bluesman

 

[Testosterone boy]

Mobil 1 and Fram filters.

Changed in the spring and fall in both vehicles.

I play it safe with oil. My van engine has 180,000 miles and runs like new.