Guys,will walmart be able to do the oil change on the ls? Should I go to a mobile express? 5w20 synthetic, correct?

 

Your 5,000 mile service is included in the purchase price.
Whoever does the oil change, make sure they use TOYOTA filter only!

 

i don't know very well about these new lexus engines yet, but i thought they require special tools and special type of oil? i'd be careful on that

 

Factory fill is 0W 20 Toyota/Mobil 1. I wouldn't trust my car to Wal-Mart or a qickie lube place. If you can't take it to a Lexus dealer, I would take it to a Toyota dealer. A Toyota dealer can order the oil filter.

Craig

 

Did you ever hear the term "you get what you paid for" it has never rung so true.

The problem with aftermarkets shops are the level of skilled ASE trained technicians, their basically is none. The biggest problem you run into with them is over tightening and striping the drain plug, very common among these types of places.

The ideal aftermarket shop is finding an ex Toyota/Lexus tech who started their own shop. You get the skill with a whole lot less labor rate. I'm lucky to have one in my area.

Most aftermarket oil filters work to OEM standards but the price of a Toyota filter is minimal and worth the piece of mind.

Their is a way to reset the service reminder and I have not yet had the time to search it....if someone knows how please post it.

Toyota does not make snytech oil, well no manufactures really does they have it bottled for them however Toyota does not offer syntech at all. My stealer uses Mobile 1 and thats what I prefer used.

 

Toyota does have a synthetic oil. It's made by Mobil one with Toyota label on the bottle.

Craig

 

Hehe, Never take your car to Wal-Mart for an oil change. I know tons of people that has got there car jacked up there. Def. take it to Toyota.

 

Factory trained--->ase---->Jiffy Lube

 

Sorry, meant to say Lexus does not bottle their own Syntech oil. They just have regular dino oil. My lex dealer carries mobile 1 in it's place. You would think they could get Toyota snytech.

 

Nope. Easy stuff.
You can take it to the Toyota dealer if you want to save a few bucks.

 

i don't know about "easy" and not requiring "special tools"..

while you probably COULD use the tools you have in ur garage.
After 2 oil changes @ home, i figured that it would be smart to go buy the oil filter removal tool.. and oil required is actually synthetic 0-20w or 5-20w which is NOT stocked in normal automotive garages.

 

do you really want some walmart/jiffy lube schmoe working on your prized LS. I'm still taking my car to the dealer for the oil change. Not going to try to save some money and have a wal mart/jiffy lube place screw up my car, not worth it

 

The Wal-Mart employee working on your car is probably making <$10/hr. Do you think he really cares that you have a $40000+ Lexus?

 

70k car and oil change at Wal-Mart. I wouldn't do that with my 10k car.

 

No way would I take it to any discount oil change place. Years ago I took my company car to Jiffy Lube because that's what the company wanted. I never had a problem, but the biggest pain in the *** was they tried to sell you air filters to PCV valves to transmission fluid changes and everything else in between.

I used to feel sorry for some of the customers I would see who got bamboozled into fuel injection cleaning services.