Originally Posted By: ryland
Originally Posted By: wymi516
Originally Posted By: ryland
I just bought a new Sonata Limited and I love it! Probably my favorite car I've ever had! Time will tell if that holds true. I have always been a huge honda guy but I love the build quality of the Hyundai. I crawled under it and everything is flawless. from the paint to the undercoating to the muffler. not a spec of rust or gobbs of undercoating. Every american car ive bought always has rust on it from the factory!
So Steve you would suggest a 5w30 over a 5w20? Ive heard 4 or five people say that so far so it must be true with the I4's. Would you suggest just a conventional 5w30? Do you know if it comes with 5w20 or 5w30 from the factory?
I tried a few different 5w-20's in our 2007 I4 Sonata both Synthetic and Regular oil. I finally hit on Pennzoil Platinum 5w-30 and the motor quieted down almost to the point of my V6 that has PP 5w-20 in it. 5w-20 appears to be the factory fill in Hyundai's. I also only use oem oil filters with 5k mile oci's.
Thanks for the info! I also got the link you sent me, I looked around a little bit but these not a ton of people active it seems but I need to look at it more. So when should I change to synthetic? If I use dino is 5w30 still the way to go? I've got 650 miles on it now and they're adding up fast!
I did our first oil changes at 3k miles on both cars. 5w-30 "dino", I hate that term "dino" will be fine. You might want to try Motorcraft Synthetic blend 5w-30, I used the 5w-20 Motorcraft in both motors and besides the I4 being noisy it seemed to work well. As far as just straight, here we go again "dino" I would pick Pennzoil if that was the type of oil I used. I'm stuck on the Pennzoil Platinum now and probably won't use anything else.
Originally Posted By: wymi516
Originally Posted By: ryland
I just bought a new Sonata Limited and I love it! Probably my favorite car I've ever had! Time will tell if that holds true. I have always been a huge honda guy but I love the build quality of the Hyundai. I crawled under it and everything is flawless. from the paint to the undercoating to the muffler. not a spec of rust or gobbs of undercoating. Every american car ive bought always has rust on it from the factory!
So Steve you would suggest a 5w30 over a 5w20? Ive heard 4 or five people say that so far so it must be true with the I4's. Would you suggest just a conventional 5w30? Do you know if it comes with 5w20 or 5w30 from the factory?
I tried a few different 5w-20's in our 2007 I4 Sonata both Synthetic and Regular oil. I finally hit on Pennzoil Platinum 5w-30 and the motor quieted down almost to the point of my V6 that has PP 5w-20 in it. 5w-20 appears to be the factory fill in Hyundai's. I also only use oem oil filters with 5k mile oci's.
Thanks for the info! I also got the link you sent me, I looked around a little bit but these not a ton of people active it seems but I need to look at it more. So when should I change to synthetic? If I use dino is 5w30 still the way to go? I've got 650 miles on it now and they're adding up fast!
I did our first oil changes at 3k miles on both cars. 5w-30 "dino", I hate that term "dino" will be fine. You might want to try Motorcraft Synthetic blend 5w-30, I used the 5w-20 Motorcraft in both motors and besides the I4 being noisy it seemed to work well. As far as just straight, here we go again "dino" I would pick Pennzoil if that was the type of oil I used. I'm stuck on the Pennzoil Platinum now and probably won't use anything else.
