1. What kind of vehicle you have
2004 Toyota Sequoia 4WD, 180k on there clock, unknown maintenance, but it seems to have been taken care of.
2. What your owner's manual says
5w-30, "API grade SL 'Energy−Conserving' or
ILSAC multigrade engine oil"
3. Where you live
Columbus, Ohio
4. How you drive (easy? hard? fast? slow?)
Pretty easy usually, my daily commute is through the country, so I'm not exactly doing battle. I do go about 10 over the limit, but I'm in no hurry to get there.
5. What your daily drive is like (short trips? long trips? city? highway?)
My daily drive is about 15 miles each way, 45-55 MPH country roads, sometimes I get into about 5-10 minutes of stop-and-go on the way out of town in the evening.
I do plan to tow my FR-S around the Eastern / Midwestern road courses starting next year, si that will end up being a fair chunk of the mileage on this car.
6. Whether your car has any known problems
As far as I know nothing major. It could run a little smoother for a 2UZ. It had an evap leak when I bought it, but I fixed that. Can't see much down the oil fill tube, but it doesn't look bad.
Other thoughts:
So far I've bought some Pennzoil Platinum 5w-30 to do a couple short OCIs to clean it up. After I run through that I just want to maximize longevity of the engine, and especially minimize wear when running with the car trailer up and down the hills in the summer. I do prefer synthetic.
2004 Toyota Sequoia 4WD, 180k on there clock, unknown maintenance, but it seems to have been taken care of.
2. What your owner's manual says
5w-30, "API grade SL 'Energy−Conserving' or
ILSAC multigrade engine oil"
3. Where you live
Columbus, Ohio
4. How you drive (easy? hard? fast? slow?)
Pretty easy usually, my daily commute is through the country, so I'm not exactly doing battle. I do go about 10 over the limit, but I'm in no hurry to get there.
5. What your daily drive is like (short trips? long trips? city? highway?)
My daily drive is about 15 miles each way, 45-55 MPH country roads, sometimes I get into about 5-10 minutes of stop-and-go on the way out of town in the evening.
I do plan to tow my FR-S around the Eastern / Midwestern road courses starting next year, si that will end up being a fair chunk of the mileage on this car.
6. Whether your car has any known problems
As far as I know nothing major. It could run a little smoother for a 2UZ. It had an evap leak when I bought it, but I fixed that. Can't see much down the oil fill tube, but it doesn't look bad.
Other thoughts:
So far I've bought some Pennzoil Platinum 5w-30 to do a couple short OCIs to clean it up. After I run through that I just want to maximize longevity of the engine, and especially minimize wear when running with the car trailer up and down the hills in the summer. I do prefer synthetic.
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