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i meant castrol GTX manufactured since '01, standard white bottle. i read somewhere that "old" gtx left some discoloration in the valvetrain as well as on the dipstick if used for years and years. i was now wondering if GTX has been reformulated (now with sythetic guard?).

could be fuel in your oil. did it smell any different from used oil?

thank you sir pitzel...i checked the link, guess i'll have to educate myself a little more as i;ve no idea what cST means (yet). your suggestion that it's ok to mix is also a a relief, cause i already mixed it couple hours ago...hehe. seen some of the threads by the mixologists too, but not...

hi all i've a quart of mobil1 5w-50 lying around here. if i mix this with 3 quarts of havoline 5w-30, what viscosity will i end up with? 5w-40? is it ok if i even do it all? i mean, that extra quart's too expensive to just use in my lawnmow

er, cost, sir.

i've already put it in as a replacement for the usual green honda coolant, which had run for the last 40,000 km. now prior to changing coolant, my coolant temp used to read normal. there's a small, wave like drawing in the temp gauge and the needle always ran at or below that wave. now it's...

thanks to everyone who replied, have bought delo 400 multigrade 15w-40...4 quarts just yesterday and will be putting it in around saturday when i visit the house. i'll leave it in for the next 10-12 months...i just hope it'll do the job: mixed conditions driving, rain, humidity and near desert...

sorry, forgot to mention, i used mobil1 as an example because all (and i mean ALL) fully synthetics marketed here follow the same price per quart, give or take a peso or two. there are no $1.45 per quart mobil1 sales here for any synthetic. think about it. with the 5k i save i can buy: new...

fellas, like i said, cost is a paramount issue here. i'm not planning to totally neglect the car, just run a good, cheap oil until rebuild time comes around. if you factor in the cost of replacing essential parts that will keep the vehicle running over the next 40,000 kilometers or so (parts...

aha! yes i am familiar with Delo...we even have the monograde type available here in southeast asia. diesel heavy duty oil in an abused civic engine...why didn't i think of that? mobil ep oils aren't available here (yet), although mobil1 is common. mr toyota, is gtx strong enough to hold its...

my sister's beater - a 96 civic automatic with a 1.5 non-vtec engine, needs a good dino, if there are any good enough, to last her until 10,000 kms, or 1 year of driving in mixed conditions. this car is abused and gets virtually no maintenance apart from oil changes every 10,000 kms using...

OT: hello sir jeep, you should visit the islands again soon, lots of new infrastructure - and while the old time favorite tourist spots are fading away, new places are being discovered (like palawan!). i drive two hondas and a toyota here - roads are much better. but the heat - the heat this...

visco index 200...is that good or bad?

hi all, i live in southeast asia. we only have three types of havoline oils here: fully synthetic 5-40, formula 20-50, and a newer one, havoline energy semi synthetic at 5-30. does north america have this havoline "energy" variant? is it any good? i'm guessing it's just plain 5w-30 marketed...

honda uses idemitsu or caltex (chevron texaco) here in the philippines.

i sure hope it's not fake syn, mr. islandvic. although i am fairly sure that the garage service won't rip off the customers as they've got some sort of reputation as a quality shop/corporation. it's called rapide, by the way.

he smelled then tasted it? wow...not sure i want to do something like that even if it can be proved that tasting saves some bucks on UOAs

hello gentlemen. since synthetic oil choices here in southeast asia is somewhat limited to a few petroleum companies, most of us here think mobil or western brands are exotic formulations too good for our econo cars. so in the quest for a cost effective oil change i came across a well-known a...

sir vwoom - kumusta din! glad to know there's at least a couple guys here who used to live where i'm at. so it's m1 by popular vote. mr john browning, i was hoping someone would extoll the virtues of castrol gtx 20w-50 because it's the cheapest here at $2 per quart, hehe. well like i said i'm...

anyone here from southeast asia? ever heard of VIC oil filters? how are they? they're all over parts supply stores here - and short of buying a filter from the dealerships, VIC seems the way to go here in the Philippines. did a search but can't find VIC filters. Fram isn't available here in the...