Oil Change - 5w-20 or 5w-30? What everyone is using?
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I was using 5w 30 synthetic for the last two+ years, had considerable vibration and engine noise, it was always changed at the dealer Jim Falk Service in BH, today I took the car to jiffy lube and changed it to 5w 20 standard oil, the difference is that now the engine is totally vibration free, and silent, I will never go back to 5w 30 again, next time I may go synth or try the 0w 20
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#80
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#85
I have a question a buddy of mine show me this video of the newly Popular JAPAN OIL call eneos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5rKxmC7MdM
Check this out and please gimmie some feedback please!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5rKxmC7MdM
Check this out and please gimmie some feedback please!
#87
I was using 5w 30 synthetic for the last two+ years, had considerable vibration and engine noise, it was always changed at the dealer Jim Falk Service in BH, today I took the car to jiffy lube and changed it to 5w 20 standard oil, the difference is that now the engine is totally vibration free, and silent, I will never go back to 5w 30 again, next time I may go synth or try the 0w 20
#88
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf6KY...867&feature=iv
The moral of this story: "Imagine driving in for an oil change and driving out with a ruined engine or transmission" actually happened to my brother's honda civic a few years back when we were still naive to Jiffy Lube's scandalous ways. We took the car in again to have them fix their mistake, and they ended up making it worse and then refused to take further action when pressed again. Fortunately we were able to successfully handle the matter through legal means.
The moral of this story: "Imagine driving in for an oil change and driving out with a ruined engine or transmission" actually happened to my brother's honda civic a few years back when we were still naive to Jiffy Lube's scandalous ways. We took the car in again to have them fix their mistake, and they ended up making it worse and then refused to take further action when pressed again. Fortunately we were able to successfully handle the matter through legal means.
#89
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I just go with what the manual says. I feel anything else won't make that much of a difference in the long run. I put 180K on my VW and only used 5W30 per the manual every 5k and had no troubles with the car what so ever. The car was sold months ago and is still running. That's pretty damn good in my opinion.
#90
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I just go with what the manual says. I feel anything else won't make that much of a difference in the long run. I put 180K on my VW and only used 5W30 per the manual every 5k and had no troubles with the car what so ever. The car was sold months ago and is still running. That's pretty damn good in my opinion.
It is good.
But it would be even better if you only had to change it half as often for the exact same results.
Which is the case with the 2IS in real life compared to the manual. (and even less often using synthetic)
I mean, you'd probably have terrific driving results if you replaced your tires every 5k miles too... but you'd be wasting a lot of the useful life of the item everytime you replaced it. That's what you're doing with motor oil doing 5k changes in a 2IS under normal driving conditions.