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My 2022 manual says 0w20 in USA, 5w30 elsewhere. 5000k normal, 7500 severe.

Owner of 2022 Mazda CX-5 2.5L NA. 2300 miles on it now. 0-2000 miles factory fill. 2000-5000 miles Kirkland 0w20, Supertech 10k filter. 3 FREE dealer 5000 miles changes next. Then Kirkland 0w20 every 7500 miles with Supertech 10k filter. We also own a 2014 Mazda 3 with 2.0 NA. Bought it new...

No mountains in Minnesota, but towing a 9,000 lb travel trailer all over the US, (42 states). Plus a 2 spot car trailer loaded close to 11,000 lbs couple times a month. Dont care what the manual states... It seems like a bunch of planet huggers write it. Oh and yes of course I know more than the...

I have a 2016 Yukon XL with 5.3. 0w20 required is a bunch of cafe non sense 0w20 in winter light towing ok Summer 5w30 or 10w30 Towing in summer 5w40 or 10w40 Period

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If your snow falls are not huge and driveway not big I would keep the lawn boy. But if you spend an hour blowing after every storm, then for sure upgrade. 824 QXE is the sweet middle. Love it.

I got the SnowMaster 824 QXE. Since i work for Toro and we can get them for a nice price, I have had most of our models over the years. The SnowMaster has the throwing power of a 2 stage and a nimbleness of a single stage. Very easy to handle. Powered wheels with Toros personal pace, easy to use...

Well, in a week it snowed 2 times here, around 10 inches. Takes 1.5 hours just to do my property plus I have couple other driveways I do. So hours rack up fast.

The question of the day. Bought a new Toro SnowMaster snow blower, after original fill and ~5 hour run do I go Conventional 5w30 or Synthetic 5w30 and another ~10 hour run for 2nd fill? Then obviously to 5w30 Synthetic for 3rd fill. Im sure it doesnt matter but it bothers me. Lol.

So should I go with this same oil for summer also? I see 215F oil temp in winter but summer 250F. Can I just go to a 50wt for summer? Just a FYI no cat in the n20 so not worried about high zinc/phos levels.

https://www.amazon.com/Motul-109776-X-Cess-5-Liter-Bottle/dp/B089MB5NHC

Edyvw, so I changed the oil on the X3 today, put in the Motul X-Cess 5w40 Gen2. What a difference!!! Noticeably quieter idle. I'd say 90% of the clatter noise the n20 made is gone now. This is coming from famous Castrol 0w40. I am impressed with Motul. What makes it so special?

So is the Motul PAO base?

Thanks edyvw, I ordered Motul X-Cess 5w40 Gen2 for my ticker n20.

Got it, no I backed the tune down to maybe 320hp now. Would be nice to pick oil up locally and not deal with shipping. I have noticed Castrol 5w40 now has LL01 approval. But yeah I might just stick with Motul.