Manual states 5w20 or 10w30?

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
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My idea of the "right" person is Doug. A guy with probably 10+ million Km's under his belt of trending and tracking UOA's and oil brands in concert with tear-down testing.



Here's where you have Doug all wrong. What you fail to realize is that Doug tends to gravitate to the 40 weight range. 5w-40, 0w-(cough-cough)40, and 15w-40.

In Oz language, he's a virtual heretic for not insisting on 25-70 or 40-70

He's is very much a thin head.

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[Propflux01]

Originally Posted By: sayjac
Originally Posted By: Tim H.
Originally Posted By: sayjac
Good to know there's so many posters, some new and psychic, who know more than the car manfacturers.

If they knew so much, then perhaps there wouldn't be recall notices would there?

I've seen no recalls for engines related to the use of recommended 5w20 oil.

That is what's specifically being discussed here.

I've also not seen any failures related to the use of 5w20 since Honda and Ford went that recommendation. Where are they?

Yep, lot's of recall notices for them.

Your quote generalized "Posters (etc) who know more than the car manufacturers'" My response with recalls was general as well. The post meaning that car manufactures DO make mistakes on engineering issues at times, as evidenced by recalls ( and TSB's for that matter as well). No smirk on my end.