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I've just struck gold here. Was looking for specs on TG LV 75W & stumbled upon the mother load. http://toyota.jp/after_service/car_care/yohin/sds/ Open the link in chrome & it'll translate the site for you. Once you've opened the PDF of your choice press "Ctrl + F" the search "cst" & it'll...

Motul 300V Ester Core 5W-30, 5K miles/8K km '99 Toyota Altezza SXE10 - 2L 3SGE Running a WIX 51394XP oil filter & WIX 46465 air filter Engine had done 156,000 km (97K mi) when I dropped this lot. This was the first time I'd run Motul & my first ever UOA. Very impressed with the TBN for a "race...

I was hunting through the shed in the weekend when I found an old 4L bottle of Castrol Syntrax 75W-90 with about 1.5L left in it. I had used in my old 5 speed manual Toyota Levin box at least 6 years ago if not longer. Do you think it's still alright to use? I've got a fresh 1L bottle I acquired...

Stumbled upon this on the Total Oil site. Some good reference material here http://www.finalube.com/Product_Data_Fil...emental_pdf.pdf

Anyone know the specs of Toyota's new "FE" CVT fluid (part number 08886-02505)? It supposedly different to the older "TC" spec (part number 08886-02105). If you put TC in an FE trans it'll blow up etc etc the dealers are telling me.

I'm considering trying Motul X-clean 5w30 C3 for my next service. The car in question is a '99 Toyota Altezza (same body as an IS300) running a 3SGE Beams motor. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a 2L twincam 16v with dual VVTi making 210hp @ 7600rpm. We've just become Motul...

Had a couple of old filters laying around that had been used on the Mrs car (AE111 Carib 4AGE). I decided to cut them open them just to see how much difference there is between a Toyota/Denso (made in Japan) & cheap repco aftermartket filter (made in china/possibly by ryco). I was surprised at...

15x smoother surface* *Dramatisation of roughness (Ra), comparing to the same 5w-30 oil with & without Castrol Magnatec molecules in the Sequence IVA wear test What [censored] marketing will they come up with next? They fail to mention how much VVTi solenoids dislike 10w-40 semi. The amount...

As per most oil manufacturers these days Castrol NZ have lube guide on their web site as well as a SMS text service. You put your rego plate in & it recommends oils for you. I thought I give it a go & it came back with Magnatec 10w-40 for my car?? I was horrified (I'm not a fan of 10w-40 semi)...

Time to change my diff oil again. I put Castrol SAF-XA in there when I first got the car as I got if free through work. It's an Australian spec'd oil that we use to use in the RWD stuff like Falcon & Transit. Now I can't remember if I used the older 75w-140 or new formulation 80w-140. The older...

Used Japanese import Toyota LiteAce van (SR40) running the trusty old 4SFE but someone has neglected it big time. Managed to get to 135K km (84m) before coming in to work complaining it was making funny noise. We had to put a new (2nd hand) engine in it. The owner said they've serviced it since...

Hope this isn't a repost. Oil is heated to 400 degrees for 1 minutes in glass flask, then checked for residue http://bmwservice.livejournal.com/27699.html Does engine oil ever get that hot? It's this test even relevant? On a side note, if you've got google chrome browser you can "right...

Had a quick search but nothing came up on here. Found some Takumi 0w30 at a very reasonable price down here in NZ. Has anyone here heard of it before? It's made in Japan, group 4 & has a VI of 174 but only ratings are SN & GF-5. Apart from that it doesn't look too bad but I'd appreciate BITOG...

I've just seen an advert for Champion Oil over here. (yes the same people who make the spark plugs). I'm guessing it's been around for years in the states. I've been looking at their SynGold 0w30. Is it any good & who is it made by? Thanks Carl

I recently swapped oils in my car, I had been running Castrol Edge 5w30 for the past two years. Last service I decided I try the Edge 0w40. Now looking at their KV ratings the 5w30 is 71.4 @40° & 12 @ 100°c. The 0w40 is 77.5 @40° & 13.1 @100°c. Based on this the 5w30 should flow better when cold...

Ok so my Mrs car is coming up for it's annual 10K service (6K miles in old speak). It's a '96 Corolla 1.6L 4AFE with 174K km on the clock. I've been using Castrol Magnatec 10w40 in it as I got it cheap at my last job. I've since moved jobs & we don't get as good discount on it so I thought I...