For anyone who might be interested, I tallied up results of this thread throughout 2022 and finished it up this morning. The results are fairly accurate, but not exact, my eyes start crossing after awhile going through everyones submissions, but I enjoy seeing the results none the less! There seemed to me a lot more obscure oils used last year, as well as some decent love for HPL. Mobil as always is the preferred choice around here. It's interesting to see the trends in preference from year to year. Happy and Healthy New Year to all the BITOG members, make sure your oil catch cans are properly positioned in 2023I have been using TGMO for the past 10 years on my 2013 Camry. It's got to a point that the dealership is not willing to give me discount anymore. So I need to get back to 0w20 oils that I can buy from Walmart. Is Pennzoil platinum still the favorite in our community? Thanks.
Really the Mobil 1 is a one size fits all deal, they've been at the top of their game for so long now. In the last 10-20 yrs the other companies have really upped theirs and it's no so much of a difference today between any of them. I'd still be running it if cost wasn't an issue, in my experience it's always been more expensive compared to other options than can do the same.For anyone who might be interested, I tallied up results of this thread throughout 2022 and finished it up this morning. The results are fairly accurate, but not exact, my eyes start crossing after awhile going through everyones submissions, but I enjoy seeing the results none the less! There seemed to me a lot more obscure oils used last year, as well as some decent love for HPL. Mobil as always is the preferred choice around here. It's interesting to see the trends in preference from year to year. Happy and Healthy New Year to all the BITOG members, make sure your oil catch cans are properly positioned in 2023
308: Mobil/Delvac
155: Pennzoil
146: Vavoline
145: Castrol
108: Quaker State
70: SuperTech
51 : Shell
40: Havoline
40: Napa
37: Kirkland
35: Frankenblend
33: High Performance Lubricants
32: Amsoil
24: STP
21: Motorcraft
18: Fram
18: Schaeffer
15: Chevron/Delo
15: Liqui Moly
11: Car Quest
8: AC Delco
8: Red Line
8: Toyota/Lexus
7: Citgo
6: O'Reilly
5: Ravenol
*Less than 5 not tallied, but there was approxmently 50 brands that were used less than 5 times. Most were just used 1 time.*
I f'ed up my totes super fantastic post and nobody called me out.Welp - there's 6 different favorite oils here.
The Quaker State because it's a buck cheaper crowd.
The Mobil 1 in it's various flavors crowd. The 0W-40 members have special gold cards in that crowd.
The boutique crowd, mostly HPL with a few AMSOIL/Redline supporting members
The BMW/VW certs crowd.
The Euro crowd, which is not to be confused with the certs crowd.
I'm in the 6th crowd. That is the 'it's all good oil' crowd, though we each have our favorites. Mine is Penz Ultra Platinum in the black label bottle. There is a Penz Platinum silver label also that is a bit more reminiscent of the Penzoil Ultra Plat with Pure Plus that WAS the favorite for quite a while.
There's a fringe group that loves Rotella. We tried driving them off with pitchforks but they are crafty little guerillas.
(just kidding Rotella crowd!)
It's funny that on another post most of the people seem to like it. Many claiming to use it. It's okay I buy oil on sale most of the time and I don't even mind using semi-synthetic oil. I buy Quaker State and Chevron really cheap from Walmart for my truck.Pennzoil Platinum is not as much of a highly praised lubricant as it used to be on the forum.
I think I've noticed as well It seems that Quakerstate Synthetic is almost favored over Pennzoil lately.Thanks for the enlightenment guys.
Shell utilizes otherwise flared gas from the North Field in Qatar. It’s an enormous amount of methane.I think Pennzoil Platinum is the darling of this site. I bought some after reading about how good it is here. Plus videos on YT. Wallyworld had it for 23.00. Plus the idea of someone making enough natural gas to create oil is mighty impressive. I've eaten a lot of beans and can't figure out how they do it.