Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
With that kind of consumption, I'd ditch Mobil 1 all together. Try a HM oil, or simply a name brand conventional. 5K would be easy to do with any oil and that much top off.
WERD!!!
I have used M1 10w30 silver cap (for 90k) & now M1 HM 10w30 (for the last 30k).... I got the vehicle used in '01 (65k) with 4k dino changes before I bought it and it was in perfect health. But upon switching it immediately to M1, it was using more oil than I thought it should. I switched to high-milage M1 and it still will use about the same amount ( about 1qt every 3k).
As far as I am concerned, no healthy car should use a qt every 3k and upon reseraching this years before I joined BITOG, I learned of MANY MANY people online with the same issue; M1 burning of too much as compared to other oils.
I have never taken the time to change oils and see if it helps, but I finally got me some HM dino to try and see if it is really the M1. I do have 180k, but again, it consumes the same amount as when it has 65k so the motor is not worn out (especially on M1 for the last 110k every 3-4k).
And as far as top-off delima, I used to keep around an xtra qt of M1 for that, but I have found that Trop-artic syn blend is a good choice when bought by the case at Sam's club. You could use that OR Supertech if u wanted to top-off with full-syn, but the advice about keeping an extra 5qt jug of M1 is also a good choice...unless you want to try another HM oil and see if it works better...I MYSELF DID NOT LIKE THE MAX-LIFE; my MPG went down and vehicle is sluggish. So far in my "other" vehicle, (non-M1 vehicle), I found it to run best with Pennzoil HM dino, so that is what I am gonna try in my 180k vehicle to in place of M1-HM 10w30
With that kind of consumption, I'd ditch Mobil 1 all together. Try a HM oil, or simply a name brand conventional. 5K would be easy to do with any oil and that much top off.
WERD!!!
I have used M1 10w30 silver cap (for 90k) & now M1 HM 10w30 (for the last 30k).... I got the vehicle used in '01 (65k) with 4k dino changes before I bought it and it was in perfect health. But upon switching it immediately to M1, it was using more oil than I thought it should. I switched to high-milage M1 and it still will use about the same amount ( about 1qt every 3k).
As far as I am concerned, no healthy car should use a qt every 3k and upon reseraching this years before I joined BITOG, I learned of MANY MANY people online with the same issue; M1 burning of too much as compared to other oils.
I have never taken the time to change oils and see if it helps, but I finally got me some HM dino to try and see if it is really the M1. I do have 180k, but again, it consumes the same amount as when it has 65k so the motor is not worn out (especially on M1 for the last 110k every 3-4k).
And as far as top-off delima, I used to keep around an xtra qt of M1 for that, but I have found that Trop-artic syn blend is a good choice when bought by the case at Sam's club. You could use that OR Supertech if u wanted to top-off with full-syn, but the advice about keeping an extra 5qt jug of M1 is also a good choice...unless you want to try another HM oil and see if it works better...I MYSELF DID NOT LIKE THE MAX-LIFE; my MPG went down and vehicle is sluggish. So far in my "other" vehicle, (non-M1 vehicle), I found it to run best with Pennzoil HM dino, so that is what I am gonna try in my 180k vehicle to in place of M1-HM 10w30
