06 Kia Sorento, Pennzoil Platinum 5W-30, 5900 mi

[Last_Z]

- This is my fiance's 2006 Kia Sorento
- 3.5L, 24V, 5-Speed auto trans
- Pennzoil Platinum 5W-30, run for 2 months
- Fram oil filter
- O'Reilly's air filter (their house brand)
- My girl is a Zep saleswoman, so she drives a lot. Mostly highway and rural Missouri miles. She is a woman (and very crazy, I might add), so she doesn't just take off nice and smooth. It's pedal to the metal from stop light to stop light.
- Very HEAVY cargo in this batch. She decided to deliver Yellow Books for some extra cash (and dragged me into it) about a month ago. Per her description, "the SUV looked like a low rider....very low on the back" Over 600 books at once....way over carrying capacity....on very hilly central MO!

Excellent report for Pennzoil and this engine.



Comments welcomed.

Rick

 

[Last_Z]

One thing worthy of mentioning....this oil stayed rock solid within viscosity specs for 40*C and 100*C. It barely thickened 4.2cSt and 0.39cSt respectively. I replaced this batch with old (2005) Quaker State RPM 10W-30, that I'm also running in my CX-7 right now. Next fill will be PP for 7k miles.

I'll be running the 10W-30 flavor in my CX-7 in the coming weeks.

 

[02zx9r]

Lloks good. Seems to like PP.

 

[tackleberry625]

Originally Posted By: 02zx9r
Lloks good. Seems to like PP.


I agree. Very good oil / engine combo. I'd stick with it. Good luck.

 

[The Critic]

Looks great.

Off-topic, what happened to the Corolla?

 

[Last_Z]

Critic,

Corolla is ex wife's car. We split up over a year ago. She still drives it.

Rick

 

[ThirdeYe]

Wow, doesn't get much better than that!

 

[Cutehumor]

looks good.
so you have an ex-wife and a new crazy girlfriend. crazy in a good way, eh?

 

[Last_Z]

The ex is mean crazy.....the new girl is cute crazy and crazy-crazy.

Anyway....just confirmed that I have a HUGE intake leak. The Variable Intake Control in this engine is vacuum-leaking BIG time. I have no idea how long this has gone on. If it has for a while, I guess it's good news because silicone in this report is very good. We'll see what Kia does.

Rick

 

[Yary]

Frams showing good UOAs.