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    Tacoma Extended OCI

    Hi guys, I'm at 50,000 miles on my Tacoma now, and am probably going to be doing an oil change this weekend. I've been doing them on the recommended 5,000 mile OCI per the manual. I've always wanted to extend this to 10,000 miles or 1 year, but I don't know why only my specific engine hasn't...
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    Toyota Tacoma 30k Maintenance Question

    Hey guys, I have a quick question since I am performing my 30k maintenance. I have a 2013 Tacoma 2.7L manual transmission 4x4. I have done the following so far. 1. Drained rear differential fluid. Filled it back up with Redline 75w90 gear oil until it started to drip out the fill hole. I let...
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    Tacoma oil change

    My Toyotacare free oil changes ran out so I'm doing one tomorrow. I got the oem filter and some Mobil 1 0w20 AFE. Will this be good or should I have stuck with TGMO?
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    Looking For Economical Vehicle

    I'm hopefully going to get an economical vehicle in the next year. I know that the Focus and some others are direct injection engines. But are the Prius / Corolla / Civic also direct injection? I am probably going to purchase a brand new vehicle, and was wondering if the direct injection...
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    PU 5w-30 SN / 9,000 miles / 2007 Lexus IS250

    I just wanted to post this up. My first UOA ever. I have pretty much always ran dino 5k ocis but tried PU for 9k. I filled it again with the same PU 5w30. This is the "old PU" without pureplus label on the bottle. The dealer recalled the pistons on this car and they replaced the pistons and...
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    Lightest oil?

    I have a couple cars that require 5w30, and realistically I'll just be using the caterham blend to get a light 0w30 since I'll have tgmo 0w20 around. But what specs do you look for in an oil analysis that tells you how thin or thick an oil is? I have seen the viscosity @ whatever degrees but I...
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    Direct Injection

    Hello, I see quite a bit of talk on the UOAs asking if the car is a DI car. I was wondering how the direct injections effects the oil differently than a non DI engine.
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    Should I do a UOA?

    I have always used Dino for 5k ocis, but I decided to give synthetic a go. I'm at about 8,750 miles on this current oci of pennzoil ultra in the is250. I've never done a uoa, and was wondering if I should dump it at 9k and call it good or get a uoa to see how the oil held up and if it's safe?
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    Pure plus oil

    I've read a couple threads on the new pennzoil stuff, but are there any oil analyses yet on them or are they still too new? Are they better than the other synthetics for any reason? If there have been analyses please link me to them. I'd love to see it.
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    M1 0w20 EP vs AFE... What's the difference?

    Hi, I was just wondering what the difference is between the Mobil 1 EP and AFE 0w20? The price seems similar or identical and I haven't found much information on the differences. From what I've found, the only difference is the 15,000 mile guarantee on EP.
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    M1 5W30

    I need to change the oil on a 2007 Toyota Tundra 4.7L with 115k miles. I don't have the stuff to do the TGMO/M1 0W20/40 blend right now (but I am looking forward to trying it). Is M1 5w30 good for 10k OCI? Also, kind of off topic and not trying to start problems. But it currently has PP in it...
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    1999 Mazda Miata coolant change

    Hello, My mom drives a Miata with a little over 100k miles on it. I'd like to change out the coolant this weekend before things get really hot. I think the car has had a bad thermostat that I replaced a few years back but other than that I don't know if any maintenance has been done on the...
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    Ordering oil from Ebay?

    I was just wondering if I could get some people's experiences with ordering off ebay. Is it kind of risky to order oil off ebay? Are most sellers pretty stand up people and deliver product that is correct? If there are mostly good experiences it could be convenient to just order the oil I want...
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    2008 Tundra 4.7 Help

    I just drained the oil on a 2008 tundra 4.7L. I have 7 quarts of Pennzoil Platinum 5w20, but just realized that the oil cap does not specify 5w30 or 5w20, just 5w30. The toyota oil chart says it's ok to use 5w30 or 5w20, could I use the 5w20 for an OCI? It has 106k miles on it.
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    Castrol 0w-20 questions

    I was wondering if there were any UOA or VOA of the castrol edge black bottle (with syntec) and gold bottle (with titanium). If you could link me to them that would be awesome. I know the typical response would be why does it matter when TGMO is available? But I am just curious about...
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    Moly question

    I have the factory fill for a while on my toyota with TGMO 0w20. I understand a lot of people like this oil because it has more moly than most. Is moly just a lubricant that TGMO uses as part of the anti wear additives? If I'm not mistaken, TGMO is made by Mobil/Exxon to Toyota specifications...
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    Oil Filter for 2013 Tacoma

    I was wondering what would be a good option for a 2013 Tacoma 4 cylinder. I will be using TGMO 0W20.
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    Toyota Tacoma / Lexus IS250 Questions

    Hello, I have two questions. First, I drive a 2013 Toyota Tacoma with the 4 cylinder (2TR-FE) manual transmission 4x4. The dealer takes care of service for the first 2 years every 5000 miles in which an oil change is included and called for in the maintenance schedule. I got the truck in June...
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