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Originally Posted By: Bandito440 My friends in the STI cult seem to hate Mobil 1 as a rule. I never asked why. I just continued to buy M1 15w-50 for my bike and love it. I'd run Rotella T6 in your car. There are many collective miles and UOAs on the Subaru forums showing it to be a quality...

iMS is a concern on 986/996 (non turbo). 987 cars have a revised bearing that is in the middle of the block. Replacing is not practical and very few failures have been documented compared to rev 1 cars. 987.2 cars use the 9A1 engine that has no iMS. Sure I wish I had a 2009+ cayman but my 987...

Hello folks, Second UOA for our 370z. Few other G37/Z threads out there but with various fluids. PU shaping up nicely as expected on an engine that is a bit hard on oils. I have a 1+ year stock left over though local wally world is still carrying it for now I won't run longer then 6mo/7500 OCI...

I'm not at all arguing against your use case and your OCI. My point is specific to street driven Porsche cars. For the 987.1 Cayman Porsche's factory OCI is 2y 20K MI. Now none of the OCD types on BITOG would dream of running 20K on a fill without a series of UOAs. Most would not even do 10K...

I can't see doing 3K OCIs using a premium synthetic on a street car unless UOA's show the engine is hard on the oil quite honestly. Plenty of Porsche see low OCI's by folks just doing it once a year as they are garage queens and IIRC after 2007 Porsche listed 10K or 1 year as the recommended...

The M1 0/40 is factory fill and the service history of the car documented only dealer oil changes. I can only assert M1 was used accordingly. Car is under warranty for 4 more years (got CPO extension when getting the car). It was a low mile car when we got it, even by Porsche standards. I am...

Picked up a low mileage base Cayman last year that had sporadic dealer oil changes over the first 4 years of its life. Not a lot of P-Car UOA reports here (let alone ones with some decent mileage on OCIs :D), but I'm a geek so I'll follow up with a new report every 6-9 months. My vintage has a...

Porsche uses a whole lotta M1 0/40...something must be OK about it While under warranty I presume you will allow the dealer to do the oil changes. Grab a container, ask for a sample and send it in for a UOA. This will give you some trending from new on how the oil is performing in your car...

Check out the UOA reports for the 35. Lots of good oils out there of course. I have the slightly different 3.7 in the 370/G37 which runs warmer due to the VVT design. Based on some nice UOA's I have been using PU 5/30 on it with a 6mo OCI as its under warranty. This translates to between 4-6K...

Originally Posted By: GearheadTool Originally Posted By: Shannow ...pulling off a highway into a petrol station is bad news on a petrol turbo I knew there was a reason to leave it running during fill-ups! It cools the turbo! Most likely all you are doing is wasting petrol. Any modern car...