Changing to Pennzoil Platinum

[advocate]

Just picked up 3-5L jugs of Pennzoil Platinum 5w-20 API-SN from a local store. Great deal! Worked out to $5.40 a liter. The last oil I bought was Petro Canada Supreme (conventional) which was costing $5.71 a liter and is becoming hard for me to get from the few distributors in town. I was going to switch to their synthetic version but they could never give me a price on it and never have it in stock requiring it to be specially ordered in. Seemed like such a hassle! I would much rather buy something on sale from a place that's easy to get to like Walmart or Canadian Tire.

Before that I was a loyal Ford oil kind of guy till I found out that our Ford Motorcraft oil is just sourced from Esso not ConocoPhillips like in the states. It gave me decent used oil analysis but the TBN was down to 2 after only 10000km. I'll still exclusively use Ford filters though.

The oil will be going in my 2007 H-D F150 5.4L and my wifes 2008 Ford Edge 3.5L once we both hit our 10000km oci in a couple/few months. I am planning on doing 15000km intervals for both vehicles on the new oil. Just concerned with the oil filter life and the VCT / cam phaser on my F150.

 

[WANG]

Ford specs 10K mile intervals on the Fiesta, which uses the FL910S filter, so they're pretty confident in that one. Maybe you could see what the recommended interval is for the latest Fords that use the same filters as yours to see what Ford expects from the filters in question?

 

[daves87rs]

Will work well for both...

 

[CATERHAM]

Yes Pennzoil Platinum 5W-20 is a good oil choice and even lighter than PC syn 5W-20 but not at extremely cold temp's.

In future I'd consider up-grading to a 0W-20 which will give you better cold start performance at all temperatures.
You can get the superb Mobil made synthetic Toyota 0W-20 for only $5.75/L. It's the best 20wt oil value in Canada.

 

[RF Overlord]

Originally Posted By: advocate
I am planning on doing 15000km intervals...Just concerned with the oil filter life
That's about 9300 miles...I would have no qualms at all using an MC FL820S for that distance, unless the motor is in bad shape, then I wouldn't think you'd be using PP in the first place.

 

[advocate]

Both vehicles are in great shape both around 70-80K on them. The Edge is new to us but it seems to e easy on oil. Have not had to add any to it in about 7000km since we bought it used. My F150 we have had since new and it had 5000 km oil changes (I know) from the dealer (castrol gtx) from new to 50k since then I have changed the oil myself using 10k oci's.

I've considered using the Toyota oil. But I haven't ventured into the dealer yet. I don't really have one close to me or one that I drive by often.

 

[Indydriver]

Originally Posted By: CATERHAM
You can get the superb Mobil made synthetic Toyota 0W-20 for only $5.75/L. It's the best 20wt oil value in Canada.

This is one of the very few US products that is cheaper in Canada. I wonder why? Here, it lists for $7.25/qt. My dealer sold me a case at $1/qt off.

 

[CATERHAM]

Originally Posted By: Indydriver
Originally Posted By: CATERHAM
You can get the superb Mobil made synthetic Toyota 0W-20 for only $5.75/L. It's the best 20wt oil value in Canada.

This is one of the very few US products that is cheaper in Canada. I wonder why? Here, it lists for $7.25/qt. My dealer sold me a case at $1/qt off.

The only reason I can come up with is that Toyota Canada does not want to provide any impediment to buyers of their vehicles from using what they consider to be the preferred lubricant choice.

 

[dailydriver]

Originally Posted By: Indydriver
Originally Posted By: CATERHAM
You can get the superb Mobil made synthetic Toyota 0W-20 for only $5.75/L. It's the best 20wt oil value in Canada.

This is one of the very few US products that is cheaper in Canada. I wonder why? Here, it lists for $7.25/qt. My dealer sold me a case at $1/qt off.


My local dealers get $8.99/qt. for it with NO discount for case lots (WHY I refuse to use it!).