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I'm currently using regular Pennzoil 10W-40 in my Nissan Maxima as it tends to use a quart of 5W-30 every 1k miles. Using 10W-40 has at least cut that number in half or more. The bad thing though is winter is coming and I'd rather not run 10W-40 during the cold months. My manual recommends...

I used to do oil changes every 3k miles before coming to this forum and reading the pretty much unanimous agreement that 3k OCI's are overkill. Now I see threads stating how hard the VQ35 engine is on oil, (even one thread where a VQ was full of sludge at only 15k miles)and now I'm thinking I'm...

I went over yesterday to help my sister get her Mazda RX-8 started. She had flooded it by not letting it run for over 2 minutes after she started it. It takes around 30-40 minutes to the car started via jump starting so as I was in the car cranking it I noticed the oil change sticker. It said...

About 18 years ago, back when I was young and reckless, I had an '88 Toyota MR2 with the factory supercharger on it. I always ran M1 15W-50 in it. On a trip to the mountains here in Colorado I was driving through a very familiar long straight section of the highway. It's a very long stretch that...

Last week I was over at my parent's house and took a look at their car's oil. I change the oil on all of their vehicles. Anyway, I happened to notice that I'm a wee bit late on their '02 Grand Cherokee. 1k miles and over 18 months too late to be exact! I don't know how this happened but it did...

My Dad has asked me to change the oil in his '70 442. It has the 455 V8 in it. I've changed this oil before and used 10W-40, but I was never really sure if that was the best for this old engine or not. The engine has 42k original miles on it. It gets driven maybe 100 miles every 2-3 years.

I'm going to be changing my oil in a few weeks again. I usually use Nissan filters but these are expensive to use for a 3k mile oca that I'll be starting. My car uses oil (about 1q per 1k miles) so no more expensive synthetics and 5k mile oca's for it! I used to use Supertechs from Wal-Mart but...

I have a 2002 Nissan Maxima with 86,000 miles that burns oil. Some of the VQ35 engines just use oil from what I've read in the Maxima forums. Mine uses about 1 quart every 1k miles. Anyway, I was using Mobil 1 10W-30, but this next oil change I'm making a switch to something else. I was thinking...