Does anyone here have experience with Kirkland 0W-20 in very cold temps? I live in MN and was considering trying it out but have read mixed comments online. Some users reported their engines running noisy vs Mobil 1 during winter cold starts.
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Patman
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I'm running Supertech 0w20, which is pretty much the same oil I believe, and my Civic's engine sounds just the same on cold starts as with any other oil I've run so far.
I have used 0w20 Kirkland for a long time in my Honda Civic and Ford F-150 as well as our Jeep GC which we recently sold. It seems to perform very well. The Civic has over 140,000 miles on it and it doesn't use a drop of oil. I am very happy with the Kirkland oil.
I’m 36 yrs old been changing oil since I’m 14 and haven’t found a noisy or quiet oil yet. Kirkland oil will perform as good as any other 0w20 in cold temperatures. It’s on par with super tech Amazon oil and your other store house brands.
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I'll let you know when Costco actually fills their massive crater in the ground and builds the thing!
I think everyone is misunderstanding me. The Kirkland is good. I'm just asking about user experience with cold starts in very cold winters. Not all oils have the same pour point. Some oils are known to be louder for the first minute or so because the oil isn't flowing as well until it warms up a little.
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Patman
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That's not likely going to happen between two oils of the same viscosity though. You are talking about a 0w20 oil here, and it can handle extremely cold starts with ease. I can see an engine being louder using 20w50 compared to 0w20, but not between two different 0w20s.
You might want to try you own test with some Kirkland and whatever is your benchmark. Like Project Farm where they have some tubes of oil and flip them and watch the flow rate as it goes down a board. Good project for January. FWIW the best stuff we saw at Allison for the US Army -60F tests was the MIL-L-2104D (now superseded by F) Emgard 0W20 which was heavy on PAO but also hard on seals and gaskets.
I don't think you're going to notice any difference at all. The only time I noticed a noise difference on a cold start was between shell Dino 5/30 noisier start then Kirkland syn 5/30.
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CeraTec will do a lot more for you than oil on cold starts. I would personally run an oil with a more moly, like M1 extended performance. I run their Euro line but it may be too thick for you. M1 0w-40 pour point is like -41 vs 0w-20 being -52 I believe.
You might also consider a pan heater.
You might also consider a pan heater.
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Pour point was abandoned as part of the Winter grade system because it didn't adequately capture the oil's ability to actually pump, which is measured with the MRV test, which, for a 0W-xx, is tested at -40C. The second test is CCS, which is designed to replicate the impact the oil's viscosity has on Cold Cranking, this is measured 5C higher at -35C for the 0W-xx Winter grade.
If the oil will pump (MRV) it will flow.
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