Recent content by ChiefPilot

bepperb, you trying to "push" me to 7K?

Originally Posted By: Sonataman Report looks good, but that car must be extremely inefficient to only achieve what you are getting with the 'conservative' driving style. Yep, I liked the report also. I didn't buy a Forester to be efficient. I bought it cause it dares to go places your Sonata...

Originally Posted By: bluesubie If this is an n/a Forester I would go to 7,500 miles on basically any oil. -Dennis No turbo on this one bluesubie but, the next one very possibly. Thanks for the comments.

Originally Posted By: abycat I am curious as to what you use for air filters and oil filters. I didnt see a year what is it 2012 or 2011. I know squat about subarus. Abycat, G-Oil is the ONLY thing on my Subaru that isn't Subaru. All filters are genuine Subi. Thanks for your comments. Hope...

BLACKSTONE COMMENTS: Very little in the way of wear metals showed up in this sample. The engine handled your road trip very well indeed. As we've mentioned before, highway use is normally easy on engines and that certainly appears to be the case here. The viscosity was a hair thin for 5W30...

No doubt, this is a political event. Don't think we will have to wait much longer for the price to shoot up again (prior to elections)as oil companies have no use for this administration and high prices equal no re-election. As far as how low will it go, best guess is at or above $3.00/gallon...

I will hit 5000 miles about the first week in June. Look for my posting of that report around the 15th of June. Should tell a tale. Thanks for all the comments, pro and con.

Originally Posted By: webfors Originally Posted By: ChiefPilot Eddie, this is a 2.5 normally aspirated engine. I think they question is whether it's the EJ25 or the FB25 engine? Telling us the year of the Forester will answer that. Sorry guys, still learning the terminolgy. This is a 2010 EJ25.

Eddie, this is a 2.5 normally aspirated engine.

First run on G-Oil 5W-30. Changed oil early (long road trip) but works out perfect as I plan on running this next oil change out to 5000 miles before the next sample and then hopefully out to 7500 miles on the following. We'll see how the oil report comes back. I am seeing an increase in MPG but...