Recent content by TheOilWatcher

Toyota has a 25% off sale. A case of 12 of the 04152-YZZA3 filters to my front door is $56. Tempting.

As the title says, I have been using a Royal Purple 20-968 in both of my Lexus GX 460's since they were new. I'm getting to the end of my stock of the RP filters; it seems they are out of stock everywhere AND have had a significant price increase from the last time I purchased two cases of them...

Don't forget "Once you use synthetic, you can *NEVER* go to any other oil...EVER!!*

One other question, to get the dilution down a bit, what is a target oil temperature / run time? I monitor the oil temp at times and typically get to around 165-175 on my trips during the week to work. Interstate driving it get into the 180's. Assuming that OBDLink is accurately obtaining...

Excellent. I will certainly change my habits. It was essentially for an interior cool-down / warm up. BUT, if it is causing a fuel dilution issue, I don't need that.

Had no idea regarding the fuel dilution issue. I'll cut that out moving forward. Doing a 5k oil change will take quite some time. For example, the remaining 831 miles on this oil change took roughly 4 months. Would a 5k oil change have too many hours on the oil? For example....The...

Yes, to cool the interior down as it is boiling hot in the afternoon. I run a short interval as 5000 miles may take me 7-8 months; it would have a lot of short trips, in town driving, extended idling stuck in traffic, etc. In other words, the oil would have a good number of hours on it.

Hello, I have a 2023 GX 460. I started running Mobil 1 Extended Performance 5w30 three oil changes ago. USING A ROYAL PURPLE 20-968 filter. This run was changed and had an 1800 mile trip over 8 days consisting of mountain, off-road/ fire trails and interstate. The remaining mileage was short...