Right now my current fill is:
5 litres Esso XD-3 Synthetic 0W-30 (CI-4) in a 1999 Malibu that's just under 100,000 miles. $5.99 Canadian a litre, PAO synthetic HDEO. It's the good stuff, thin when it's cold, thick when it's hot, shear stable and high additive. I have gone from driving 5,000 km a month to barely using a tank of gas a month in my personal car, so at 10,000 km OCI, this will probably last me a year.
Filter is Fleetguard StratoPore LF3554. Oversized filter for more capacity, although I overfilled the engine about 10 ounces to get all five litres in. The Fleetguard filter interested me because it seems quite similar to the media in Amsoil EaOs, so I bought it from Cummins. The thing is a beast, and it barely clears the back of my AC compressor.
What are you using and why?
5 litres Esso XD-3 Synthetic 0W-30 (CI-4) in a 1999 Malibu that's just under 100,000 miles. $5.99 Canadian a litre, PAO synthetic HDEO. It's the good stuff, thin when it's cold, thick when it's hot, shear stable and high additive. I have gone from driving 5,000 km a month to barely using a tank of gas a month in my personal car, so at 10,000 km OCI, this will probably last me a year.
Filter is Fleetguard StratoPore LF3554. Oversized filter for more capacity, although I overfilled the engine about 10 ounces to get all five litres in. The Fleetguard filter interested me because it seems quite similar to the media in Amsoil EaOs, so I bought it from Cummins. The thing is a beast, and it barely clears the back of my AC compressor.
What are you using and why?
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