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Red Line or Motul (if you can find it). Nothing better in the synthetic oils than these two...10W 40 will cover you for FL weather.

Skouliki, what car are you going to use this for? Normal driving or racing? In Greece at this time of the year you don't need 50 weight...

How long should I keep this oil before I do a change? I usually go for 10 K km with my synthetics.

Here are the oil's specs: SAE, API SH/CF, CCMC G-4, PD-2 and G-5/PD-2 I only understand the API and that does not seem very impresive, yet people swear by this oil, what do you think?

However their site (the Greek anyway) says that the oil should be changed frequently due to its viscocity being affected by gasoline contamination (does this make sense?) I am just concerned about this oil's additive package regarding everyday driving...

So here I am at my favorite service station for a set of new tires and I see the guy has Motul 300V in stock (alas to my US friends this is in Europe). So out goes the old oil and in comes 4 liters of Motul. Now I know this is an oil perfect for racing BUT is it a good idea to put it in a...

Your views are quite heretic for this forum! Thanks anyway!

My Mazda has been stored outside under cover for the past few months. Battery for sure is dead. The gas tank is half full. I did not add any stabilizers before storing. While I usually use high quality synth oil (Mobil 1 5W 30) my last oil change before I stored it was a mediocre dino oil. What...

Yes, you can buy 0W-20, such as the Fuchs I mentioned above. You can find pretty much everything as far as oil is concerned here, but it is expensive. For example a quart of Aral 0W-30 is sold for 14 Euro or about 17 USD! Same for Mobil1.

Well that is what I plan to do, bring my own oil. The owners manual also recommends 5W-20 SL oil. I was thinkimg of using either 0W-20 Fuchs Titan GT1 or maybe Aral 0W-30. Both are A3 rated synthetic oils. If the dealer gives me flack, I will have him do the oil change, stamp the book and then...

German Made Oil. Divinol 5W-30 Multilight. My dealer wants to use it for my Mazda 6. They recommend 10.000 km OCIs. I don't feel comfortable with this choice.

Would you use a 5W-30 oil,for 6K miles OCI with the following specs: API SJ/ SH-EC; ACEA A1-98/ B1-98; FORD WSS-M2C-913-A; FORD WSS-M2C-913-B; FORD-WSS-M2C-912-A1?

I rechecked my owners manual for my Mazda 6 2.0 and the oil they recommend for Greece is 5W-20 API SL/ILSAC GF-III or 5W-30 API SJ/ACEA A1 or A3. Temperature in the summertime in Greece can go as high as 42 C (110 F). In the winter I seldom see anything below -5 C (20 F). 1. Will the 20 weight...

In Greece there is no difference in nozzle size between regular 95 octane unleaded and premium 100 octane unleaded. 95 Octane RON is approximately the same as 91 Octane in the US and 100 Octane as 94 Octane in the US. By the way Croatia is a wonderful country, worth the drive from anywhere in...

I drive a Mazda 6 with the 2.0 141 hp engine (European model) here in Greece. Mazda recommends 5W-30 SJ oil and their dealers here use Divinol 5W-30 SJ. I do not know how good Divinol is (any feedback?), therefore I plan on switching to Motul 8100 5W-30. However I was informed by the Motul...