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It had about 3k miles on it and was installed in early January 2014. I used rotella 15-40 motor oil. I decided to change because of the filter tear scare. This filter has no tears and looked fine other than the wide spacing at the glued pleat. Date code is F10E03G1 , October 2013. I replaced...

This is a family members car that was purchased used with 221K miles. It has the Toyota 1zz-fe engine. It ran good and the interior/exterior looked nice, as if it had been well cared for. The idle seemed a little rough so I changed the air intake gasket. That fixed the rough idle. While removing...

The 1zz-fe Toyota engine (same as corolla and matrix )has a bunch of sludge @ 222K miles. So I used a quart of kerosene and 3 quarts of 5-30 cheap motor oil a few times on it let it run a bout 20 minutes and changed the small recommended filter. Then this last change I used cheap 5-20 oil with...

citgo press release regarding not using dextron VI in early transmissions GM press release Does the gm press release mean it is good only for gm vehicles? If not why does citgo not recommend the dextron VI for older vehicles using Dextron III or II?

SAMPLE DATE: 09/29/04 MI/HR ON OIL: 6,668 MI/HR ON UNIT: 47,132 ALUMINUM--------2 CHROMIUM--------0 IRON------------7 COPPER----------1 LEAD------------4 TIN-------------0 MOLYBDENUM------7 NICKEL----------0 MANGANESE-------0 SILVER----------0 TITANIUM--------0 POTASSIUM-------0...

Well, this is my third oil report from Blackstone on this toyota and it looks pretty decent. SAMPLE DATE: 08/05/04 MI/HR ON OIL: 11,387 MI/HR ON UNIT: 40,464 ALUMINUM--------3 CHROMIUM--------1 IRON------------9 COPPER----------1 LEAD------------3 TIN-------------0 MOLYBDENUM-----65...

SAMPLE DATE: 04/17/04 MI/HR ON OIL: 6,031 MI/HR ON UNIT: 29,077 ALUMINUM--------3 CHROMIUM--------1 IRON------------9 COPPER----------1 LEAD------------1 TIN-------------0 MOLYBDENUM-----60 NICKEL----------0 MANGANESE-------0 SILVER----------0 TITANIUM--------0 POTASSIUM-------0...

SAMPLE DATE: 02/03/04 MI/HR ON OIL: 5,950 MI/HR ON UNIT: 23,046 ALUMINUM--------4 CHROMIUM--------1 IRON------------9 COPPER----------1 LEAD------------2 TIN-------------0 MOLYBDENUM-----65 NICKEL----------0 MANGANESE-------0 SILVER----------0 TITANIUM--------0 POTASSIUM-------0...

I just prepurchased a bunch of oil analysis tests from blackstone and was wondering how I should go about testing my car? I'd like to try to get as much out of the oil as possible. What procedure should I use to test? I drive 800 miles per week mostly highway. I am using mobil 1 5-30 currently...