Cold Flow Test - 30wt, 5w20, 0w20 Pennzoil

[CT8]

Originally Posted by Number_35
Originally Posted by Garak
Originally Posted by StevieC
No I don't have a Youtube channel. I'm interested to get some TGMO 0w20 and do a comparison against Amsoil Signature series 0w20 and 5w20 and see the differences in my deep freezer at -24C (-11.2 F)

Preparing to do an outdoor oil change in late December?

I added Castrol GTX 5w30 once around 1989 or 1990 when the bottle was at ambient -35 C to -40 C. Never again, no matter how fluid the oil is.

Early '82 - I stop for gas, and know I'll have to add oil, as usual, to my '68 Impala. It's in excess of -30 C that day. It was a cold winter, may have been -35 C that morning. The tired old 307 was drinking a litre of oil every 75 miles, so I keep a case of 24 cans of Quaker State 10w30 in the trunk. So, the oil is at ambient temperature.

The oil is off the dipstick, so I add two litres. It takes several minutes to pour each can of oil. It's like molasses coming out.

A few years later I discovered the miracle of synthetic oil, and have never gone back to conventional. (Of course I've not since had a car that burned oil like that either.)
-35C +is well below the 10W temps.

 

[CT8]

Originally Posted by StevieC
No I don't have a Youtube channel. I'm interested to get some TGMO 0w20 and do a comparison against Amsoil Signature series 0w20 and 5w20 and see the differences in my deep freezer at -24C (-11.2 F)

Why ?
Originally Posted by Silk
OMG, I've got straight 30 in one of my motorcycles !!!! I started it on saturday, after a year not running....it was 12c, it fired up on the 2nd kick and ran sweet as.

30is "good" more or less to freezing.

 

[CT8]

Shannow everything is upside down is Aus. what am I looking at?

 

[CT8]

The "conventional" oils GpII and GpII[+] are really good oils.

 

[StevieC]

Originally Posted by CT8
Originally Posted by StevieC
No I don't have a Youtube channel. I'm interested to get some TGMO 0w20 and do a comparison against Amsoil Signature series 0w20 and 5w20 and see the differences in my deep freezer at -24C (-11.2 F)

Why ?


Because...

 

[PimTac]

I was under the impression that you made the first video the way it was presented.

 

[Shannow]

Originally Posted by CT8
Shannow everything is upside down is Aus. what am I looking at?

Couple of different oils from my freezer at various temps, inverted to see how well they flow.

The moly upset toe "pour" a little more than advertised.

 

[StevieC]

Originally Posted by PimTac
I was under the impression that you made the first video the way it was presented.



LOL, unfortunately no.

 

[deoxy4]

I don't live in an area that gets down to -40F, thankful for that. If I did I would consider getting a block heater or similar.

The coldest it gets in my area is around -20C or -5F and only a few days a year. This is real world for me.

Here is a representation of a 0w20 oil viscosity and start up at that temperature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJnNuUmiI8E

Looks like a 5w30 oil viscosity @ 60F to me. Should be good enough.

 

[StevieC]

My brother is in Somerville and never plugs in his Rav-4. He also uses whatever conventional oil is on sale.

 

[Garak]

Originally Posted by Number_35
The oil is off the dipstick, so I add two litres. It takes several minutes to pour each can of oil. It's like molasses coming out.

My LTD burned almost as bad, and I was using 5w30. When I added in the horrible weather, I was squeezing that Castrol bottle like a tube of toothpaste.

 

[deoxy4]

Originally Posted by StevieC
My brother is in Somerville and never plugs in his Rav-4. He also uses whatever conventional oil is on sale.

Somerville, Massachusetts?

I have a 2003 Honda 2.4L. I used 5W20 conventional oil in my Honda for 12 years, SM oil that I got for less than $1/ quart on clearance. Exxon Superflo, Pennzoil conventional, Chevron, all worked for me @ 6K mile OCI. Never had a problem and the engine is clean. We get cold winters but never extended periods where it is below 0F. We may get a week of single digit temperatures. He shouldn't have a problem.

That being said I have used 0W20 synthetic for the last two winters. I change it in late November and run it the whole year. I only add .5 quarts make up oil. $20 oil changes with filter and 10K mile OCI is hard to beat.

 

[StevieC]

Yup in Mass.

 

[BrocLuno]

With the price of modern oils being relatively close, if I lived where it got to 0*F or below, I'd just run 0w30 year round and be done with it.

That should take care of the 110*F summer days too

 

[Virtus_Probi]

Originally Posted by StevieC
My brother is in Somerville and never plugs in his Rav-4. He also uses whatever conventional oil is on sale.

I love to go to Davis Square, unfortunately haven't been there since last spring. My daughter was very interested in Tufts until she talked to the brother of one of her friends who was going there for the exact degree she was planning to pursue and he told her he was going to transfer soon! Doesn't mean that she wouldn't have liked it there, but he scared her off and she didn't even apply. The engineering school there is tiny and so is the acceptance rate...

Somerville has a pretty moderate climate for the area, actually not very far from the ocean and that helps to keep the lows from getting too low. I don't live too awfully far from that area and have also gotten by with 5W30s without plugging in, am usually in a garage but park outside when my daughter is around with her car (I'm an indulgent dad, I know). Drive just a few hours north to the Whites and the climate is a different animal, but 5W30 has also gotten me through there and parking outside is my only option in that case. I am going to try a 0W30 this winter just for giggles, though, and also I look for 5W30s with good cold properties just in case...the battery is the big thing to watch, though.

 

[StevieC]

He used to live in Cambridge but moved to Somerville when he wanted to buy a house because Cambridge was far more expensive.