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Originally Posted By: TomYoung FWIW I am not in agreement with using Mobil 1 on a 3,000 mile OCI. I don't think that you are even half way through that oil. Why not try going to at least 5,000 miles and then do a UOA. The 3,000 mile interval does not pass muster in the modern era. If you read...

Here is what I think I will try. To this point, I have been a very traditional 3k oci'er. I am going to stick with mobil 1 and the Napa platinum filter and puch my oci out to 6000 miles. then I will do a uoi. Where do I go to get a uoi anyway?

5W30 seems to work fine where I am at. We have a few days in the low 100s in the sumer, and single didget sub 0 in the winter, so I think 5w30 is the best to cover that range of tempereture swings. When I did my head gaskets recently, the inside of my motor was spotless, and there were no...

Hello everyone, I am new here, and I am trying to figure out what kind of oil I should be using in my 1996 Subaru Outback. It has a 2.5l DOHC motor with 143,000 miles. I just resealed the whole motor and reseated all of the valves. While I was in there I checked out the internals of the motor...