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Originally Posted By: HTSS_TR What are your daily trips ? If you get 10k miles in 9 months and you use your car every day of the week then average daily trip is about 10-15 miles, the oil is barely get to about 180-190F at the end of daily trips. If your daily trips are 20-25 miles or longer...

Thanks for the feedback everyone, I appreciate all the comments. I think I'm going to stick with Toyota's 10k OCI recommendation with 0W-20 and see how the next UOA looks.

Originally Posted By: avss1 Originally Posted By: parrothead How does the TBN @ 1.8 and insolubles @ 0.4 look, considering a 10k OCI? do you have TAN, Oxidation and Nitration test results? No, I paid extra for the TBN test, but not the ones you listed.

Originally Posted By: rjacket How much does it cost you to put in Toyota 0w-20? I paid $60-something for a case of 12 on Ebay back in January. Don't remember how much shipping was. At the time, my dealer did not carry it and wouldn't order it for me.

How does the TBN @ 1.8 and insolubles @ 0.4 look, considering a 10k OCI?

Looking for some feedback on this. It's been about a hundred years since I posted a UOA on here. Oil was in use for almost 9 months (1/11 - 10/11). This is the first OCI that I followed Toyota's 10k recommendation. Blackstone noted that copper and silicon are high. Note that averages I listed...

Originally Posted By: hate2work Toyota's 0W-20 is good oil, and I'd use that without reservation. Personally, I would not do 10k OCIs, but that's just me. Is Toyota saying you can go 10k on the OEM filter, or do they want it changed at mid-point? Thanks, I didn't even realize Toyota had an...

It's been a few years since I posted on this forum. Just picked up a 2010 4Runner with the V6 engine. Toyota is recommending 12 month/10k oil changes on this model and is recommending 0W-20. I seem to remember 0W-20 oils being a hotly debated topic a few years ago. Some thought it was more...

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I have gold GC in my ride right now. I just hit the 1/2 way point of a 5k OCI, so it's going to be another 2 months before I a UOA on it.

I have a neighbor that keeps his Lab penned up in his garage 24/7. Our houses are very close together and this thing barks constantly. Luckily my bedroom is on the other side of the house. It's still annoying especially when this thing decides to bark all day. If I can hear it next door, how...

I used Pentosin Pentosynth 5W-40 a few times and it smelled just like green GC, but it wasn't green.

Let us know what ECS says. I've always wanted to give this oil a try, but haven't had any luck finding it.

That same thing happend to me, but with an installment loan payment. And it happened 2 months in a row. I have been paying on this loan for almost 4 years, have never been late, but they still didn't show me any mercy. I had to pay a $15 fee to have the money instantly transferred from my...

What a bunch of morons. I'll be the first in line to put the smack down on someone that is abusing an animal, but to go after fishing and hunting by scaring kids. Please give me a freaking break! Big difference between hunting animals and cruelty to animals. In my neck of the woods if people...

I took an oil sample from my new ride a couple of weeks ago and have been debating on whether or not to have it analyzed. Can anything be learned from a factory fill UOA other than speculation on which brand of oil is being used? Any reasons why I should or shouldn't have a UOA done on this stuff?

Thanks for the opinions so far. I do change the filter regularly, heck just about every month because the unit has a/c as well and it was hotter than blazes in Michigan this summer. I'll take a look at the color of the flame when I get home tonight. From what I recall from viewing it last...

Anyone here have their furnace cleaned regularly? I see media reports, even more so this fall, about the importance of having your furnace cleaned each season. It sounds like a scam to me, but I've never had it done. What exactly are they supposed to clean, check or whatever? My furnace and...

I've used Mobil 1 0w-40 in my VW 1.8T in the past. From memory, I believe the UOA's I did from 5k mile runs showed decent results as far as wear metals go. Heck, I believe lead showed a 0 ppm on 1 UOA. The only thing blackstone mentioned was the oil shearing to a thick 30wt. I did try a couple...

I've wondered this myself, but don't know the answer. I did use Pentosynth 5w40 for a few OCI's a while back. This oil is imported from Germany and says something to the effect of fully synthetically on the label, but it only meets BMW LL-98. Maybe a 40 wt oil is too thick to meet the LL-01 spec?