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Mobil 1 0w20 + GC 0w30 + Penzoil PP 10w30 Sample date: 19Oct'07 Time in service: 12Mar'07 to 19Oct'07 Miles in service: 5985 Oil filter: ST3593A Drving habits: 65%city/35%hiway, not a spirited driver, and summer temtps rarely over 85*F. The 02-24-06 is a 140 mile baseline UOA I took when I...

I just started towing a boat and trailer outfit with my '00 Subaru Outback 2.5L and AT. The weight estimate is about 500-600 lbs, boat, trailer, motor, fuel and gear. The furtherst lake I plan to goto is about 160 miles roundtrip and the lake I most frequent is 25 miles roundtrip. The weather...

Well I changed the oil with TropArtic 10w30 synblend with a 1/2oz of LC and run this for 10 hours or so. I thinking to use GC after about 40-50 hours.

Wed I bought a nearly brand new boat package that included a Tohatsu 6hp 4-stroke outboard motor...boat and motor first sold in Sep'05. The motor has ~8 hours on it. Manufacture oil recommendations are SAE 10w30/40 thru 20w50. Break-in period is 10 hours but I going to change the oil now. Think...

This is my uoa on a GC and M1 0w20 mix I ran last year.

I'm pretty close....2qts M1 0w20, 1qt GC and 1qt Pennzoil Platinum 10w30. Plan to run it 6-7 months...about 6-8k miles.

My 2000 Subaru Outback is spec'ed for 5w30. I ran MC 5w20 for the winter and got a decent uoa on it. This was the first time I used a straight Xw20 oci...previous oci were Xw20 and Xw30 mixes.

Just got back the results of the retest: vis@100C is 8.95...still a good strong 20wt. FWIW, I am now running a 48% M1 0w20, 29% GC gold 0w30 and 23% Pennzoil Platinum 10w30 mix with a Purolator Premium Plus L14460 oil filter. The viscosity calculator page gave a vis@100C of 9.8. A 140 mile uoa...

my OBW is an automatic tranmission. My MPG averages are 27.4(hiway) - 21.8(overall, heavy on city thou) - 18.3(all city).

This was very early SM batchs of MC 5w20. Here is my VOA's

oilyriser wrote: "How does it feel, and sound?" Really didn't feel or notice any differences...maybe a slight power increase from a standing start (not racing). Sounds the same thou that infamous Subaru cold-start ticking sound was not any louder, it did seem to take a little longer to go away...

Tested by OAI-CTC Oil: Motorcraft 5w20 Oil Filter: ST3593A Make-up Oil: None Sample Date/Tested: 3Feb'06/27Feb'06 Miles on Sample: 4411 Miles on Vehicle: 54839 Date Used: 18Oct'05-20Feb'06 Air Filter: OEM changed on 25Oct'05 Lube Control was used during the first 2 months and Fuel Power...

Dang...I sent out a sample, same day as yours to Oil Analyers and also haven't received my results. I thought it might be slow since the shooting on 30Jan'06 at the USPS sorting facilty, 7 workers were killed, is where my mail is sent for processing. 3 weeks in a bit long thou. BTW...I send out...

My 2000 Subaru is spec'ed for 5w30 but I'm using MC 5w20 since mid Oct. Runs fine and hasn't used any oil in ~4000 miles. I have a stash of Mobil 1 0w20 that I may use next.