Recent content by jiffydarren

I don't use anything but castrol on any of my vehicles. I used to have an old jeep that I rode for 80000 miles using Castrol GTX and when I went to replace the valve cover gasket the valve train was as clean and new as it was the day the vehicle was built. I don't understand why anyone uses...

A bottle of Royal Purple is a bottle of hype. It has NO ADVANTAGE over any other fully synthetic motor oil. Period. Use whatever full synthetic you want with confidence.

People still use PYB? I thought this was 2015. My shop doesn't even sell PYB. I bet you have a pretty good idea where I work, too.

>Where can I buy the cheapest motor oil? I hope you mean "Where can I find a good quality product at a reasonable price." Not "I want to buy cheap oil because screw my car, it's a nuisance expense." Using the correct motor oil in your car made by a quality supplier/manufacturer is the only...

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Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete Originally Posted By: Apollo14 The Jiffylube succession planning people probably have a note on your file that you were already doing 3000 mile oil changes before you worked for them. Executive potential! But he's going to have to drop it to 2000 miles if he...

Quote: For the life of me, why would anybody not change the filter at every oil change? Because there are some people out there who are SO cheap, they put conventional oil in turbocharged cars, disregard well founded guidelines set forth by the people who designed their car, and fiddle while...

Originally Posted By: demarpaint Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack Anyone following this kind of pattern? Say, oil every 5k miles and filter every 10k miles? Nope, fresh oil, fresh filter. I'm not leaving half a qt. or more dirty oil to mix with fresh clean oil as soon as I turn the key...

Originally Posted By: HKPolice Some people are just naturally skeptical of EVERYTHING the government does. History, my friend... history.

Why push your oil filter this far? Or your oil for that matter?

Originally Posted By: fdcg27 20W-20 Pfff... that just sounds funny to me. A multi grade oil that does... not... change... grades...

What I'd like to know, op, is why you don't want to use the 0w20. Is it purely a cost standpoint? Or is it another reason? I don't know much about the 0w20 other than the fact that is "manufacturer recommended." Now I realize that the manufacturer recommendation is subject to interpretation. (I...

Originally Posted By: Apollo14 Yes you can. It's unnecessary and wasteful. I don't look at it as being wasteful from an oil standpoint... I look at it as a protecting my investment standpoint.

Originally Posted By: Apollo14 Originally Posted By: jiffydarren Originally Posted By: Bud_One @Jiffy.. What are your OCI on your personal vehicles? 3k on everything... My cvpi and my c50 boulevard. I'm curious on why you choose that interval? How many months does it take you to get to 3k...

Originally Posted By: bluesubie Originally Posted By: jiffydarren Originally Posted By: Bud_One @Jiffy.. What are your OCI on your personal vehicles? 3k on everything... My cvpi and my c50 boulevard. You should definitely check out the uoa forum! Found this using google...