How does TGMO currently rank?
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It depends on who you ask.
Where might you be located and what are your drive cycles?
Any 0W-16 should do fine at your planned OCI.
I use the Toy 0W-16 for our 2019 RAV4 Hybrid. Works great.
Any 0W-16 should do fine at your planned OCI.
I use the Toy 0W-16 for our 2019 RAV4 Hybrid. Works great.
Use in-grade whatever oil and keep moving. I've now moved to the cheapest full syn on my 4Runner. Seems to not blow up no matter what I use.
- Best 0W-20, based on UOAs and availability, seems to be Mobil 1 Extended Performance 0W-20.
- Best 0W-16 seems to be a 0W-20, IMHO.
- My personal oil of choice for any 4-cycle engine I own - Mobil 1 0W-40 or Castrol Edge 0W-40.
Widely available flagship oils FTW!
- Best 0W-16 seems to be a 0W-20, IMHO.
- My personal oil of choice for any 4-cycle engine I own - Mobil 1 0W-40 or Castrol Edge 0W-40.
Widely available flagship oils FTW!
At 5K anything will be fine… So far with our A25A I cannot notice a bit of difference between TGMO, Valvoline and Pennzoil except the price.
Last thing I heard, TGMO is Mobil 1 with a different label.
IMHO the respective spec'd 0W16, 0W20 oils, TGMO brand, and OEM filters, at 5k mile OCIs, is a good maintenance plan.
No need to if you picture all receipts and mileages. Or even easier - CarFax app let's owners add maintenance entries into the CarFax history. Stays there for the life of the car, and looks better than a pen written logbook.
Yes… California.
And a different additive package, with a ton of Moly, like you would find in a Redline High Performance or Amsoil Signature Series.
If you want a Group IV/V base with a stout additive package with plenty of Moly, Redline HP, Amsoil SS, or even the newcomer, High Performance Lubricants.
But Amsoil SS and Redline HP are not available in 0w-16 (yet)
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It's not. It has never been formulated similar to Mobil 1, that rumour needs to die.
TGMO is bottled by a different division of Mobil 1, if you were to compare it to another mobil product off the shelf it'd probably be closer to Mobil Full Synthetic or Mobil Super Synthetic, but like a tier above that.
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Just a correction:
Mobil 1 is a specific family of products produced by ExxonMobil, under the Mobil oil moniker. There are other families of oil under that same moniker and that includes the Mobil Super series.
TGMO is bottled by ExxonMobil, at least in North America, or has been in the past. It was blended nothing like your typical Mobil products, from any of the families. This is likely because it was produced to Toyota's specs and not a development of XOM's lab.
Honestly that's what I meant, I think I completely ADHD'd that sentence, I was saying that it's bottled by a completely different division of Mobil than Mobil 1.
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