It loves it. Been on 5w30 for about a year now, roughly 12k ‘miles, VCM disabled as well. No change in MPG, engine sounds pulls the same, no difference. My bigger concern is the fact that my VIN falls into the batch that were manufactured with the bad rod bearing, so I guess it’s a ticking bomb...
I’ve used various 5w30: amsoil, Pennzoil, Mobil super and probably something else. Everything but amsoil (two OCI if I remember correctly) were run for 4-5k miles. I could never tell the difference (as far as motor “performance” goes) with any of the oils. I don’t think it really matters with...
been running 5w30 in my '17 6MT hatch for close to 70k miles now. done several UOA along the way. mostly regular gasoline, but did premium for around 7k miles to see if it'll have an effect on oil dilution. it did, but not to the degree that it'd make sense to continued paying the premium for...
Oh for sure, humans can get used to anything. I’ve tried fasting before (not for weight loss purposes) and it didn’t quite work for me. But I’m genuinely happy it’s working for you, great job keeping them pounds off!!!
got a little over a thousand miles on them and so far, super happy with the tires. they are not as loud as coopers, dry traction is quite impressive and no complaints on wet traction either. so far so good!
Paid mine off in 2019 putting in large chunk of cash. It was good (felt no pressure in 2020 when oil and gas industry tanked and I got laid off) and bad (missed on all of the gains had I put the money in the market). On the other hand, paid virtually no interest on the mortgage and house now...