You're at the mileage when the rockers start to go bad on these engines. I would keep an eye, or rather listen, for that. These engines, like most on the market, don't need anything special, oil wise.
Are you sure this is true? You have seen my oil burning thread.Lastly, there are boutique oils with plenty of BITOG fanboys, but no real-world payoff.
Love the passion of fanboys.Are you sure this is true? You have seen my oil burning thread.
I think there are multiple lines of evidence that high end PAO/AN esther oils are good at cleaning and unsticking rings. So many HPL filter cut opens show so many carbon chunks.
Love the passion of fanboys.
I am. I also like the no VII that HPL makes. I don't know if I'd call it a "special oil" though. It's not like it's $30/qt or anything crazy, same price as their other oils.It is a high power density V6 with the power of high-po V8's just a few years earlier.
True, the off the shelf oils should be good enough.
I see you are running a special oil in your van. Are you performing a cleaning cycle?
- Ken
I'm fairly sure that the prudent course of action in a 90,000 mile caravan is one of the very excellent choices with good brand names that sell for between $22 and $34 for five quarts on Amazon. For cleaning, I think a few short OCI's and maybe Seafoam makes some sense. I would say that using a syn blend for this car was maybe just a shade on the parsimonious side. I would prefer a gentle, gradual return to cleanliness than "carbon chunks" in the filter. Regardless, if this vehicle will go 250,000 miles on PAO/AN Ester oils, it will go the same distance on Pennzoil UP, or even Quaker State Full Syn.Are you sure this is true? You have seen my oil burning thread.
I think there are multiple lines of evidence that high end PAO/AN esther oils are good at cleaning and unsticking rings. So many HPL filter cut opens show so many carbon chunks.